About the Journal

Editorial Process

Publication Frequency

Indexing and Inclusion

Preservation Policy

Interoperability Protocol

Funding

 

Editorial Process

Once a manuscript is submitted for publication, the manuscript is checked by the journal’s editorial team to ensure that it is suitable to go through the regular peer-review process. After that, the manuscript is assigned to an Editor according to relevant expertise. If the Editor considers that the manuscript may not be of sufficient quality to go through the regular peer review process, or that the manuscript is off-topic according to the journal’s scope, the manuscript shall be rejected with no further processing.

When the manuscript passes editorial screening, the Editor sends the paper to at least 2 experts for peer review. Reviewers can be Editorial Board members or external reviewers. The peer-review process is single-blinded and reviewers are assigned ensuring that no conflict of interests exists between authors and them.

Each reviewer provides a set of comments and recommends whether a paper will be:

  • Accepted

  • Accepted subject to change

  • Accepted subject to resubmission with significant changes

  • Rejected

Rejected papers will not be re-considered. When the paper is resubmitted, the same reviewers will be employed to ensure that the quality of the revised paper is acceptable. The Editor is responsible for the final decision on a paper. Accepted papers will appear online followed by printed hard copies.

The authors can appeal to editorial decisions. The appeal is considered when new information relevant to the editorial decision has been made available or if there is a reason to believe that the JCS&T did not follow their guidelines in a strict manner.

Publication Frequency

Since 1999, the JCS&T presents two regular issues per year, in April and October, although non-scheduled special issues are sometimes published.

Indexing and Inclusion

The JCS&T is included in the following quality indexes:

It is also included in the next directories and digital repositories:

Preservation Policy

All articles are archived in the institutional repository from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, SEDICI, in order to backup and preserve their content.

Interoperability Protocol

The JCS&T supports the OAI-PMH protocol. The OAI-PMH service is available at http://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/JCST/oai

Funding

Funding is provided by the Postgraduate Office of the School of Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. There are no charge for any reader to download articles and reviews for their own lawful use, nor there are author charges for publication.