Authorship confers credit and has important academic, social and financial implications. It also implies responsibility for what is published and its results.

The Conciencia Digital Journal establishes that authorship is based on the following four criteria:

1. Substantial contributions to the design, acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data;
2. Writing and critical review of intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be published;
4. Agreement to be responsible for all aspects of the work and its results.

All those designated as authors must meet all four criteria for authorship. An author must be able to identify which coauthors are responsible for other specific parts of the work and must have confidence in the integrity of his or her coauthors' contributions. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments.

The articles published in the Conciencia Digital Magazine retain the property rights (copyright) of the published works, which favors and allows their reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Ecuador license, for which they can be copied, used, distributed, transmitted and publicly displayed, provided that the authorship and original source of its publication are cited, they are not used for commercial or onerous purposes, and the existence and specifications of this license of use are mentioned.

Author Charges

The journal does not charge any fees for the submission, review, publication or editorial of articles. The implicit costs of the journal are made up of the fees of the reviewers and editors when the author so requires.

Costs are determined by the Editorial Ciencia Digital, when requested by the author (preferential time). The editorial processes for articles apply a chronological process to the date of receipt; when the author requires publication in a short period (between four and twelve weeks, depending on the availability of the volume), the process will be applied by publication cost, by preferential and differentiated time, for students, teachers and independent researchers. The percentage of articles that receive this treatment is a maximum of 10% of all publications.

The editorial process for free and paid publications is the same, meeting all the standards required by good editorial practices.