Policy for standardizing academic citation and identification
Author and Affiliation Identifiers
Scientia et Technica adopts international standards for academic identification, editorial normalization, and scientific interoperability, with the aim of strengthening authorship traceability, international visibility, bibliographic retrieval, and the proper indexing of published scientific content.
To this end, the use of persistent identifiers and structured metadata is promoted, in accordance with editorial practices implemented by international scientific publishing, indexing, and academic interoperability organizations and platforms.
| Identifier | Description | Editorial and scientific utility | Official website |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORCID | Persistent digital identifier for authors and researchers. | Enables distinguishing authors with similar names, integrating publications across scientific platforms, improving indexing, and ensuring proper attribution of authorship. All authors must have an ORCID profile that is visible to the journal and kept up to date. | https://orcid.org |
| MINCIENCIAS – CvLAC | Official academic CV in Colombia for recording academic training, scientific output, projects, and research lines. | Authors must keep their CvLAC profile visible to the journal and updated, in order to support academic validation processes, research trajectory review, and institutional affiliation analysis. | https://scienti.minciencias.gov.co/ciencia-war/ |
| Google Scholar | Platform for the visibility and retrieval of scientific output and academic citations. | Facilitates the consultation of publications, citations, h-index, and other bibliometric indicators associated with the author's scientific trajectory. Authors are required to keep their profile visible to the journal and updated. | https://scholar.google.com |
| Research Organization Registry (ROR) | International identifier for universities, research centers, and institutions. | Promotes the normalization of institutional affiliations and the interoperability of scientific metadata across indexing and academic analysis platforms. It must be provided by authors to unambiguously identify institutions with potentially similar names. | https://ror.org |
The information provided may be used by the journal to support the following processes:
• Academic validation
• Metadata normalization
• Scientific interoperability
• Bibliometric analysis
• Institutional affiliation review
• Evaluation of scientific visibility and detection of potential academic endogamy levels
Authors are responsible for ensuring the authenticity, consistency, and currency of the academic information submitted during the editorial process.
Guide to the normalization of author names according to ORCID recommendations
The journal recommends that authors maintain a unique, stable, and consistent form of academic identification across manuscripts, ORCID profiles, CvLAC, Google Scholar, and other scientific platforms, with the aim of ensuring correct attribution of authorship, bibliographic retrieval, and scientific interoperability.
Editorial recommendations
• Use the same academic signature in all scientific publications.
• Avoid frequent changes to names, initials, or surname structure.
• Register historical name variants used in previous publications in ORCID.
• Authors with two surnames are advised to consistently retain both.
• When necessary to avoid international ambiguity, hyphens between surnames may be used.
• Maintain consistency between ORCID, CvLAC, Google Scholar, and the submitted manuscript.
Inconsistency in the form of academic identification may affect:
• Bibliographic retrieval
• Scientific citation
• Bibliometric indices
• Interoperability across platforms
• Authorship attribution and academic indexing
Citation of journal articles
The journal incorporates citation and bibliographic export tools in its OJS platform, allowing readers to automatically generate references for published articles in various standardized formats. These features facilitate the retrieval, management, and interoperability of scientific information with academic platforms and reference management software.
Among the supported or commonly integrated formats are:
• APA
• IEEE
• MLA
• Chicago
• BibTeX
• RIS
• EndNote
• RefWorks
BibTeX and RIS formats are widely used to export references to reference managers and scientific writing environments such as LaTeX, Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote. BibTeX is a widely adopted standard in scientific documents produced in LaTeX, while RIS is an interoperable format for the exchange of bibliographic references between academic platforms and document management systems.
The journal may enable additional export and automatic citation mechanisms compatible with reference management tools and international scientific indexing systems, with the aim of strengthening interoperability, academic retrieval, and citation traceability of published articles.
Publication frequency
Scientia et Technica is a quarterly scientific journal of the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira aimed at disseminating original, unpublished, and recent research results in science and technology.
The journal publishes research, review, and technological development articles from the national and international scientific community, promoting the dissemination and appropriation of knowledge across different areas of engineering, applied sciences, and emerging technologies.
Accepted manuscripts are published on a rolling basis and are progressively added to the corresponding issue during each quarterly editorial period, ensuring greater visibility, retrieval, and timely availability of research results.
More information at: https://revistas.utp.edu.co/index.php/revistaciencia/frecuencia-de-publicacion