About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal publishes original papers about scientific and technological research related to: work and production organization, ergonomics, safety and occupational health, management, quality, industrial statistics, operational research, logistics, human resources management, knowledge management, and business informatics. Furthermore, it includes papers regarding artificial intelligence and other applications, as well as factory projects.

Industrial Engineering journal publishes the following documents:

• Editorial. Document written by the editor, a member of the Editorial Committee or a guest researcher for the content present in the journal and an impact event or activity of national or international significance, in the date that is published the journal issue.

• Articles of scientific and technological research. These documents present, in detail, the original results of research projects completed.

Peer Review Process

For the selection of the works to be published, the Editorial Committee evaluates the articles sent according to the correspondence with the declared topics of interest, the originality and novelty, the quality of the content and structure, the relevance and reference´s relevance and in general, compliance with the publication standards established by the journal. If an article does not meet these requirements, it can be rejected or returned to the authors for rewriting. Only those jobs that meet these requirements are accepted to pass the review process.

The Industrial Engineering Journal has established a review policy by academic peers, under the double blind modality. This means that once an article is received the editorial committee selects a couple of reviewers who anonymously and desinterstedly evaluated its scientific quality according to a criteria.

The evaluators are peers both in knowledge of the subject, as well as in the degrees, level of studies, recognition and academic prestige of the author subject to evaluation.

The journal has a committe of 75 professionals from different specialities of Industrial Engineering, with more than 60% coming form institutions outside CUJAE, both national and intenational.

The recommendation resulting from this academic opinion may consist of:

Accept Submission: Accepted for publication in its original form.
Publishable with modifications: Accepted with editorial and style modifications.
Reassessable: Conditional on the author making changes to the content that must be re-analyzed by the reviewer.
Not publishable.

The main reasons that will lead to the rejection of an article by the reviewers are referred to: the lack scientific novelty, the unreliability of the methods and procedures used, as well as the low quality and poor updating of the bibliographic references.

In the event that there is disagreement between the tow designated reviewers, a third referee will be used, whose decision will define, together with the editorial commitee, whether or not the article is published. The results of this process are unapealable and at all times, the editorial committe, as well as the experts who review the manuscripts, ensure that they maintain special care with the established ethical standards and avoid conflicts of interest.

The review process lasts for several month. Since the time the reviewer takes to review the work is added to the time requuired by the authors to make the suggested changes. The latter have a dead line of one month ( counted form the date on which the results of each evaluation are sent), for the delivery of the corrected version of their article according to the recommendations of the referees.

Before completing the editing process of an article selected for publication, it will be sent to the authors so that they can review the correction changes made and communicate their agreement with them.

Once your article is published, you wil be notified electronically.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes three issues a year under the continuous publication system. Each of the published issues has its own table of contents.

Open Access Policy

The journal Ingeniería Industrial (RII) is the open access and provides immediate free access to its content, under the principle that making research free of charge available to the public, supports a greater exchange of global knowledge. The submission and evaluation of the material received by the RII assumes that the authors know and accept the following conditions: The authors give the copyright to the RII under the license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows to Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material, under the terms of Attribution (you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made) and NonCommercial (you may not use the material for commercial purposes). We encourage readers to sign up for the publishing notification service of the journal. Use the Register link at the top of the home page of the journal. As a result of registration, the reader will receive by email Table of contents of each issue of the magazine. This list also allows the attribution to a certain level of support or journal readership.

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Mission and Objective

The journal Ingeniería Industrial, scientific publication of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering of the Technological University of Havana "José Antonio Echeverría" (Cujae), has as its mission to publish the original results of scientific research and most important and recent applications in the field of Industrial Engineering, carried out in research centers, both in Cuba and abroad. Objective Facilitate the dissemination of original scientific research and most important and recent applications in the field of Industrial Engineering, as well as to provide access to updated information to professionals in this branch of science and technology.

Vision

To be a scientific publication accredited at a national level and with international recognition, with high visibility, impact on the scientific community and recognized prestige, for the dissemination of articles of highly scientific content, which contribute to the knowledge of readers and promote the advancement of science and the technique.

Readers

The journal Industrial Engineering is addressed to the scientific and academic community, national and international; mainly to engineers, researchers, professors and professionals in general who work in the field of Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Engineering and other related fields.

Plagiarism detection

The journal is opposed to plagiarism and other fraudulent practices, so all articles received must undergo an analysis to establish its originality before being submitted to peer review and again before publication. In case of finding any type of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, scientific fraud, double application and conflict of interest, the following steps will be taken:

• removing the document from the editorial process

• communicing the decision to the author

Code of ethics and negligence

To guarantee the ethics and quality of the published articles. Our journal has its own Code of Ethics as a reference The editorial team of the journal Ingeniería Industrial is committed to the scientific community in ensuring the ethics and quality of the articles published, which is why our journal to draw up its code of ethics is based on the Code of Conduct and Good Practices, which defines the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE).

Guidelines for authors:

1. The author must present a concise and accurate narration of the work developed, as well as an objective discussion of its intellectual and scientific significance.

2. The authors of manuscripts must ensure that the work is original, that it does not contain parts of other authors or other fragments of works already published by the authors.

3. In the case of shared authorship, the authors must justify that there was a full consensus of all the authors affected and that it has not been presented or published previously in another media.

4. Authors must also commit themselves to a review of the most current and relevant scientific literature of the subject analyzed.

5. All authors must accept responsibility for what has been written.

Guidelines for reviewers:

1. Reviewers should adopt a positive and impartial position for the sole purpose of promoting scientific communication effectively and accurately.

2. Reviewers must diligently issue accurate, courteous, unbiased and justifiable. Reports.

3. Reviewers should maintain confidentiality in their evaluation of the manuscript and this also applies to colleagues of reviewers who can be asked for their opinion on specific sections (with the permission of the editor).

4. Reviewers should not copy or retain the submitted manuscript.

5. If a reviewer has convincing evidence that a manuscript includes plagiarized content or falsification of research data or knows that it has been published, it must immediately notify the journal management in a confidential manner, which will take the appropriate measures.

6. The reviewers should not make use of the data, arguments or interpretations, unless they have the authorization of the authors.

7. The reviewers must disclose the conflicts of interest resulting from the relations of competence, collaboration, or otherwise directly with one of the authors, and avoid cases in which this type of conflict prevents an objective evaluation.

Guidelines for publishers:

1. Publishers must commit to strive to meet the needs of readers and authors and constantly improve the quality of the journal.

2. The editors must guarantee the confidentiality of the evaluation process at all times: the anonymity of the evaluators and the authors, the evaluated content, the reasoned report issued by the evaluators and any other communication issued by the editorial board.

3. The editors must respect the intellectual independence of the authors.

4. Publishers should ensure that all types of conflicts of interest will be avoided as much as possible.

5. The editors should not make use of the data, arguments or interpretations, unless they have the authorization of the authors.

6. The editors are the maximum responsible for compliance with the time limits for revisions and the publication of accepted papers, to ensure rapid dissemination of their results.

7.The editors must ensure that if there is any retraction this will be published in the editorial note

Journal History

The journal began publication in 1979 with ISSN 0258-5960 (print). As of 2011, it becomes an electronic publication and acquires the ISSN 1815-5936.