Open science practices

Introduction

Science and Philosophy is a Diamond open access journal, published by the Information and Communication Society, with the support of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico and other national and international academic institutions.

The journal adopts open science practices as a core principle of its editorial work. Open science is conceived as a movement that seeks to make scientific knowledge accessible, reusable, and transparent for all of society, in accordance with the human right to science and the principles of the National System of Scientific and Humanistic Publications (SNPCyH). The journal, committed to the open access philosophy and consistent with DOAJ, has adopted the Diamond model and the Creative Commons 4.0 license.

Open Science Practices in Editorial Policies

Diamond open access: All content is free for authors and readers. No processing charges (APCs). Democratization of knowledge, equity in publication. Creative Commons licenses.

In 2024, the journal adopted the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, which allows sharing and adapting content with attribution and for non-commercial purposes. This promotes the legal and transparent reuse of knowledge.

Peer Review (Double-Blind): The journal employs a rigorous double-blind peer review system that guarantees the objectivity and quality of the evaluations. This ensures academic integrity and quality control.

Code of Ethics (COPE): The journal aligns with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), ensuring good editorial practices, transparency, and conflict of interest management. This guarantees reliability and compliance with international standards.

Plagiarism Detection Policy: Similarity verification tools (such as iThenticate) are implemented to ensure the originality of manuscripts. This safeguards scientific integrity and prevents misconduct.

AI Use Declaration: Authors must explicitly declare the use of artificial intelligence tools in manuscript preparation. AI cannot be listed as an author. Transparency in authorship and human responsibility for content.

Digital preservation: The journal guarantees the long-term preservation of its content through institutional archives and digital preservation systems. Permanent access to knowledge, even in the long term.

Open Science Practices in Publications

Preprint Policy: Ciencia y Filosofía allows and encourages the deposit of preprints (versions prior to peer review) in institutional or thematic repositories (such as Zenodo, arXiv, OSF Preprints, etc.) before, during, or after the peer review process.

Requirements for depositing preprints:

Authors must include the following statement in the preprint:

"This manuscript is a preprint that has been submitted to Ciencia y Filosofía (ISSN: 2594-2204). It has not yet been peer-reviewed or certified by the journal. Therefore, it should not be used for decision-making purposes or as a final version."

Preprints must be submitted under the same license as the journal (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Authors agree to update the submitted preprint once the article is accepted and published, adding the accepted version (postprint) and a link to the final version in the journal.

Open Data Policy

The journal recommends that authors, whenever possible, deposit their research data (databases, analysis scripts, supplementary materials) in open access repositories.

Requirements and recommendations:

Deposit in thematic or institutional repositories: The use of repositories such as Zenodo, GitHub, Figshare, or recognized institutional repositories is suggested.
Data citation: Deposited data must be cited in the article using a persistent identifier (DOI or Handle).
Open license: Data must be released under an open license (preferably CC BY or CC0) that allows for its reuse. Data Availability Declaration: Authors must include a data availability declaration in the manuscript, indicating where the data is stored and under what conditions it can be accessed.

Open Metadata Policy

Ciencia y Filosofía guarantees that the metadata for all articles (title, authorship, abstract, keywords, DOI, URL) is openly available in interoperable formats.

Implementation:

DOI Assignment: Each article has a persistent identifier (DOI) that facilitates its retrieval and citation.
XML/JATS Metadata: Structured metadata in JATS format is used to ensure interoperability with other indexing platforms and systems.
OAI-PMH Protocol: The journal is interoperable with the OAI-PMH protocol.