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

Explorador Digital Magazine 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 outcome.

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

The articles published in the Explorador Digital Magazine retain the economic rights (copyright) of the published works. The magazine will retain the rights only while the review and publication process lasts. Once the article is published, all rights will be returned to the authors of the article. . This process favors and allows their reuse under the Creative license. Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - ShareAlike 4.0 Ecuador, which allows others to remix , adapt and develop your work without commercial purposes, as long as they give you credit and license their new creations under the same terms.

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Explorador Digital maintains a firm commitment to the Open Access model; consequently, it does not require authors to pay any fees or charges (APCs) for the submission, review, processing, or publication of their manuscripts. All operational costs associated with the editorial workflow—including OJS platform management, external evaluation, copyediting, typesetting, metadata tagging, web publication, and long-term digital preservation policies—are fully covered by the institutional funding of *Ciencia Digital* Publishing.

Our primary mission is to democratize and enhance the dissemination of high-impact scientific and technological output of global interest, ensuring that financial barriers do not hinder the advancement of knowledge or negatively affect researchers and their affiliated institutions. Furthermore, in alignment with international ethical standards and scientific rigor, members of the external review committee—who participate in the blind peer-review process—perform their duties on a strictly voluntary basis, altruistically providing valuable technical assessments to ensure the academic excellence of our publication.