About the Journal

Author Contribution Statement according to CRediT

CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) aims to recognize each author’s individual contribution to a submitted manuscript. This practice seeks to prevent authorship disputes that may arise during the editorial process with the journal.

Additionally, it avoids the addition of any author who was not previously listed, since the journal will understand that this statement reflects the full list of authors who participated in the preparation of the manuscript.

Through CRediT, authors provide a detailed description of their specific contributions to the manuscript being published, offering transparency to the journal’s editorial team.

Who is responsible for submitting this information?
In the Open Journal Systems (OJS), the author who created the submission account is considered the corresponding author (CA). The CA is responsible for submitting all final information in a PDF file along with the rest of the submission materials.

Which categories are recognized by CRediT?
There are fourteen (14) categories, and each author may be credited with one or more:

  1. Conceptualization: ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
  2. Methodology: development or design of methodology; creation of models.
  3. Software: programming, software development; designing programs; implementing code and algorithms; testing code components.
  4. Validation: verification, whether as part of the activity or independently, of the reproducibility/replicability of results, experiments, or other research outputs.
  5. Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
  6. Investigation: conducting the research process, including experiments or data/evidence collection.
  7. Resources: provision of study materials, reagents, patients, lab samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other tools.
  8. Data curation: annotation, cleaning, and maintenance of research data (including software code) for initial and future reuse.
  9. Writing – Original draft: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the initial draft of the published work (including substantive translation).
  10. Writing – Review & editing: critical review, commentary, or revision of the published work at any stage.
  11. Visualization: preparation, creation, and/or presentation of data visualizations.
  12. Supervision: leadership and oversight in the planning and execution of the research, including mentoring.
  13. Project administration: management and coordination of the research activity.
  14. Funding acquisition: acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Example of a contribution statement:
Sergio Roncallo-Dow: investigation, methodology, writing – original draft;
Nicolás Mejía-Torres: formal analysis, data curation, visualization, resources;
Lilu Dallas: writing – review & editing, project administration.

Ethical Commitment and Use of Artificial Intelligence Policy

The journal upholds a strong commitment to publication ethics, academic integrity, and transparency throughout all stages of the editorial process for any type of document submitted to the scientific journals of Universidad de La Sabana. In alignment with the cases and guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), we have adopted an explicit policy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the editorial, peer review, and scientific writing processes.

We recognize that AI tools can support tasks such as grammar checking, text analysis, information structuring, or data analysis suggestions. We promote responsible use of such tools, always grounded in the authors’ critical thinking.

The journal does not accept manuscripts in which the writing or analysis has been entirely delegated to AI systems. Furthermore, authors are required to explicitly and transparently disclose any significant use of these tools.

This commitment reflects our mission to safeguard the reliability of published knowledge and ensure that every scientific contribution meets the highest standards of quality and ethics.

Journal Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

The journal publicly declares the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support specific tasks within the editorial and dissemination processes, in line with its commitment to transparency, scientific integrity, and editorial efficiency.

Institutional Use of AI

Our editorial team uses AI systems—including language models such as ChatGPT—to support processes such as:

  • Drafting and improving communications with authors, reviewers, and collaborators (e.g., informational messages or reminders).
  • Organizing, normalizing, and standardizing data for publication metadata (e.g., author names, affiliations, ORCID, keywords, among others).
  • Suggesting keywords in Spanish, English, and Portuguese based on disciplinary thesauri and content analysis of the article.
  • Assisting in the creation of short descriptions or promotional texts for institutional channels.
  • Producing support materials such as automated podcasts (derived from scientific articles) using AI-generated voice synthesis tools.

Transparency in Derivative Products

When the journal produces derivative content (such as podcasts, audio summaries, images, or social media posts) involving the use of generative AI, it will be explicitly stated that such content was created with the support of these technologies. This disclosure will be included on the website, in the content description, or in the corresponding promotional materials.

Limitations and Human Oversight

In all cases, AI is used as a complementary tool under the supervision and editing of members of the editorial team. No content is published or disseminated without prior human review to ensure its accuracy, relevance, and quality.

This policy is aligned with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and will be periodically reviewed to adapt to technological developments and the needs of the academic community.

Sources of funding

The journal is financed entirely by the Universidad de La Sabana.

It does not receive advertising nor does it have a subscription modality.