About the Journal

Journal definition

Entorno journal is a biannual publication of Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, through the Research Directorate of the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Social Projection; carries out scientific studies following its institutional philosophy.

objective

The objective of Entorno journal is to disseminate research results that help the academic, scientific, public and private sectors to make decisions through the different areas of knowledge.

Periodicity Mention

Entorno journal publishes two publications a year, every six months between June and December. It includes research articles from various areas of knowledge.

Arbitration system

Entorno journal performs a double-blind peer review to review the articles it publishes. The process consists of requesting a review from the reviewers, made up of the international editorial committee. Once the evaluators make the necessary reviews, a reevaluation verdict will be issued, sent accepted or not publishable; This decision will be sent by email to the author (s) of the evaluated article.

Information service

Mentioned in:

Latindex (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal)
Camjol (Central American Journals Online)
DORA (Declaration on Research Assessment)
AMELICA
CROSSREF
LATINREV
ZDB (Zeitschriften DatenBank)
WIKIDATA
SUDOC
Sherpa Romeo
OpenAlex
ROAD

Adoption of code of ethics

Guide to good practices and ethical standards

Entorno journal uses good practices and ethical standards in the development of scientific research, seeking its integration with teaching and social projection. For this reason, the editorial management carries out the following practices:

Ethical-academic integrity: Entorno journal is a publication of Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador that, through the Research Directorate of the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Social Projection, carries out scientific studies following its institutional philosophy. For which, the journal is based on the following principles:

Confidentiality: the editor and the entire editorial team have the obligation to keep the texts received confidential, until they have been accepted for publication. Only then can you spread your title and authorship.
Impartiality: the editorial team must be impartial in the process of accepting articles, based on the policies and guidelines of the authors.

Updating and periodicity: Entorno journal publishes two publications in the year, every six months between June and December. It includes research articles from various areas of knowledge.

Entorno editorial teams: Entorno journal has a national and International Editorial Committee, with the aim of guaranteeing the quality of the articles through international parameters. In addition, the function of this team is to support, guide and promote the academic-scientific activity of the journal. There is also an Editorial Board, which guarantees the originality of the articles through evaluations made by specialists in the field. And finally, because it is part of an academic institution, the journal has an Institutional Academic Committee, which ensures the protection of the philosophy and values ??of Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Review of works published in Entorno Journal: Articles published in Entorno journal are reviewed by double-blind peers. In this process, the originality, plagiarism detection and redundant publications of the works are evaluated, as well as falsified or manipulated data.

Acceptance or rejection of manuscripts: the responsibility for accepting or rejecting a scientific article in the surrounding journal is in charge of the main editor and the editorial committee. However, to give a final verdict on acceptance, it is based on reports made by the peer reviewers.
Originality and plagiarism: Entorno editorial committees must ensure that articles published have academic-scientific purposes, that they are original and unpublished, and that any form of plagiarism is taken as a serious lack of ethics, for sanctions and solutions of this type of bad practices the publisher will take as a base the plagiarism policies that the journal has.

Publication Norms: Entorno journal receives the presentation of originals under the APA standardized norms. In addition, for him to send articles, editorial policies and guidelines for authors must be taken into consideration.
Duties and responsibilities

Responsibility of Editor: the editor will be responsible for guaranteeing the quality of the material published in the journal. Based on the publishing policies, lines of research and guidelines for authors. The editor must also emphasize the journal's privacy statement, evaluation processes, and plagiarism policies.
Author's responsibility: all authors who send their works to the journal must take into account the policies that the journal has in its physical form and on the web. Also, the author must accompany his work with a letter of commitment specifying that the works sent are unpublished originals and will not be presented to any other medium before knowing the decision of the editorial committee.
Responsibility of peer evaluators: peer evaluators must take into account the peer evaluation process, research policies, research lines, among others. In addition, the authors will be aware that their works will be subject to evaluation. And the corresponding measures will be taken to ensure and safeguard the privacy of identities of the peer evaluators. Any decision made to accept or reject the article will be communicated through the editor.

Use of Creative Commons Licenses: Entorno journal is registered under the creative commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA). Therefore, the articles in Entorno journal can be reproduced, distributed and publicly communicated in digital format, provided that the name of the authors and Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador are recognized for their contribution.

Plagiarism detection

Entorno journal, through its Editorial Board, maintains a serious policy related to plagiarism. We faithfully believe that the use of works and ideas without giving due recognition or credit is a dishonest practice. Paraphrasing or copying the ideas of others or even your own, which have been made known through other publications is considered plagiarism. Therefore, we reserve the complete freedom to reject the review process of a submitted manuscript, if it is subject to plagiarism, which will be reviewed by means of technological tools, doing as the first of the manuscript review stages; and if confirmed, the following actions will be taken:

The plagiarism review will be carried out in the first phase of reviewing the manuscript.
When a situation of irregularity or suspicion of plagiarism is detected, the authors involved will be immediately informed of the process to follow.
Articles will be compared to check the degree of plagiarism.
All members of the Editorial Board will be informed and will be asked for their comments on the matter.
The documentary evidence will be sent to the authors of the article and they will be asked for a response.
If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism: A record of the official retraction of the work will be made. The online version of the article will be withdrawn.

Entorno journal will not publish any other article by the authors involved in plagiarism for the period considered by the Editorial Board.

Bibliographic references preparation

The citations and references must be constituted following the norms APA 7th edition. It is recommended to consult the following manual: https://biblioteca.utec.edu.sv/web/APA-7Ed.pdf