Section Policy: Editorial

Scientia et PRAXIS is a multidisciplinary scientific journal published by the Academia Mexicana de Investigación y Docencia en Innovación (AMIDI), a non-profit academic institution registered with RENIECYT-SECIHTI (No. 2200092) and the Registro Nacional de Editores (INDAUTOR), Mexico.

1. Editorial Mission and Thematic Focus

The journal publishes original research focused on innovation for sustainable development, understood through its technological, social, economic, and environmental dimensions. It explicitly articulates the theoretical generation of knowledge (Scientia) with its practical application (Praxis). Contributions must promote well-founded solutions with tangible impact and transformative relevance.

Its editorial line is based on the normative frameworks of the Oslo Manual (OECD, 2005; 2018), which defines and classifies innovation into the following categories:

  • Product or service innovation
  • Process innovation
  • Organizational innovation
  • Marketing innovation
  • Business model innovation
  • Social innovation

The journal also aligns with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, encouraging research addressing global challenges such as poverty, health, education, gender equality, climate action, innovation, governance, and social justice.

2. Scientific, Ethical, and Inclusive Principles

Principles of academic rigor, scientific integrity, social responsibility of knowledge, equitable access, and a strong commitment to inclusion guide the journal. It promotes open science, ethical use of emerging technologies, and the elimination of economic, linguistic, or social barriers to participation and access.

It adheres to the recommendations of COPE and UNESCO, promoting the responsible use of artificial intelligence tools in producing, reviewing, and disseminating scientific knowledge.

3. Audiovisual Inclusion and Accessibility

As part of its inclusive commitment, Scientia et PRAXIS publishes each article in three formats: PDF, EPUB, and an inclusive audiovisual resource, the latter featuring AI-generated voice narration and subtitles to facilitate access for individuals with visual or hearing disabilities.

4. Types of Articles and Structure

The journal accepts empirical research articles and welcomes conceptual developments, critical reviews, methodological proposals, and case studies. All submissions must articulate theory and practice, following the Author's Guidelines, which require the following structure:

  • Structured abstract
  • Justification or background
  • Literature review
  • Methodology
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • References (APA-7 style)

5. Peer Review Process

All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer review process, preceded by an editorial review for thematic relevance, originality, and compliance with the submission guidelines. The estimated time for academic review is 15 days, and the overall publication process depends on the manuscript's complexity and the authors' responsiveness.

6. Language and Linguistic Review

Manuscripts are accepted in Spanish and English. Spanish-language texts undergo orthographic and syntactic editing, while English manuscripts are reviewed using Grammarly Premium. All manuscripts are checked with iThenticate to ensure a maximum similarity index of 10%.

7. Periodicity

The journal operates under a continuous publishing model, organizing its content into biannual issues (June and December), allowing for faster dissemination of accepted manuscripts.

8. No Article Processing Charges (APC)

Scientia et PRAXIS is a non-profit, open-access academic journal committed to the free, ethical, and responsible dissemination of scientific knowledge. Its editorial policy is guided by the principles of open science, editorial transparency, peer review, digital preservation, and permanent access to published content.

The journal does not charge Article Processing Charges —APCs—. Likewise, it does not apply any type of fee to authors for the submission, editorial evaluation, peer review, decision-making, proofreading, editing, layout, publication, preservation, or dissemination of their manuscripts.

This policy applies to all content published by the journal, including regular issues, special issues, thematic dossiers, and co-edited issues. In all cases, manuscript acceptance depends exclusively on compliance with the journal’s editorial standards, thematic relevance, academic quality, and the outcome of the peer-review process.

Article publication and access to content are completely free of charge for both authors and readers. In this way, Scientia et PRAXIS reaffirms its commitment to an open, equitable, transparent, and non-profit model of scholarly communication.

As part of its editorial process, the journal carries out activities related to editorial management, academic editing, metadata normalization, assignment of persistent identifiers, digital preservation, interoperability, dissemination, and integration into academic visibility systems, without these activities representing any charge to authors.

The journal promotes the visibility, traceability, and accessibility of published articles through their integration into academic information systems, repositories, directories, metadata platforms, bibliographic databases, digital libraries, scientific aggregators, and open science communities.

Published content is available in open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License —CC BY-NC 4.0—, which allows its use, distribution, and adaptation for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authorship and the original source.

9. Disciplines and Thematic Areas

The journal accepts contributions from fields such as management, economics, education, health, technology, engineering, and social sciences, among others, as long as they address issues related to innovation for sustainable development from a scientific and applied perspective.

10. Research Axes

The journal organizes its content around seven cross-cutting thematic axes:

  1. Innovation management and organizational transformation (SDGs 9, 16)
  2. Applied technology for sustainability (SDGs 2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14)
  3. Social innovation and community development (SDGs 1, 3, 5, 10, 11)
  4. Transformative education and pedagogical innovation (SDG 4)
  5. Knowledge economy, entrepreneurship, and business innovation (SDGs 8, 9, 17)
  6. Public policy, governance, and innovative institutions (SDGs 15, 16, 17)
  7. Artificial intelligence, data analytics, and sustainable digital transformation (SDGs 9, 12, 13)

11. Methodological Approach

The journal accepts studies with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-method approaches, as long as they are scientifically justified. The following types are valued:

  • Field research
  • Applied case studies
  • Analytical or predictive models
  • Systematic reviews or meta-analyses
  • Innovative methodological proposals

12. Visibility and Indexing

The journal is indexed in RePEc, Latindex Catalog 2.0, WorldCat, CORE, OpenAIRE, Semantic Scholar, OAIster, Zenodo, among other platforms that ensure international visibility, retrievability, and preservation. Each article is assigned a Crossref DOI, facilitating academic positioning and citation.

13. Contact and Communication Channels