Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing

Here, we summarize how this conference proceeding publication adheres to the 16 Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, as proposed by :

The following principles are ordered by following Scopus:

1. Website

A journal's website, including the text that it contains, shall demonstrate that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It must not contain information that might mislead readers or authors, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site. An ‘Aims & Scope’ statement should be included on the website and the readership clearly defined. There should be a statement on what a journal will consider for publication including authorship criteria (e.g., not considering multiple submissions, redundant publications) to be included. ISSNs should be clearly displayed (separate for print and electronic).

On the About the Journal you will find what our conference proceedings will consider for publication in the Aims & Scope list. The online or electronic ISSN is displayed on the webpage footnote and banner of the header figure: ISSN 2591-3522. You can check the validity of this on the ISSN Portal.

2. Name of journal

The Journal name shall be unique and not be one that is easily confused with another journal or that might mislead potential authors and readers about the Journal’s origin or association with other journals.

The conference proceeding name, Mecánica Computacional, is unique and was conceived as the conference proceedings for ENIEF, MECOM, and other international conferences yearly organized by the Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics since 1983. These conferences were also organized with other associations in the form of Latino-American, Ibero-American, Pan-American Conferences, and other ones related to Numerical Methods and Computational Mechanics.

3 . Peer review process

Journal content must be clearly marked as whether peer reviewed or not. Peer review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff. This process, as well as any policies related to the journal’s peer review procedures, shall be clearly described on the journal website, including the method of peer review used. Journal websites should not guarantee manuscript acceptance or very short peer review times.

All articles follows a peer-review process performed by experts in the AMCA conference. The list of experts is in the Editorial Team.

4. Ownership and management

Information about the ownership and/or management of a journal shall be clearly indicated on the journal’s website. Publishers shall not use organizational or journal names that would mislead potential authors and editors about the nature of the journal’s owner.

The Argentine Association of Computational Mechanics is the owner of the publication and is in charge of the permanent management.

5. Governing body

Journals shall have editorial boards or other governing bodies whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editorial board or other governing body shall be provided on the journal’s website.

The governing body consists of an Executive Editorial Board and a Conference Board (Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee, Volume Editorial Board, Thematic Editorial Board).

6. Editorial team/contact information

Journals shall provide the full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors on the journal website as well as contact information for the editorial office, including a full address.

Full contact information of the editorial team, led by the editor-in-chief, can be found on the Contact page.

7. Copyright and Licensing

The policy for copyright shall be clearly stated in the author guidelines and the copyright holder named on all published articles. Likewise, licensing information shall be clearly described in guidelines on the website, and licensing terms shall be indicated on all published articles, both HTML and PDFs. If authors are allowed to publish under a Creative Commons license then any specific license requirements shall be noted. Any policies on posting of final accepted versions or published articles on third party repositories shall be clearly stated.

The copyright holder of the publication is the Argentine Association of Computational Mechanics (AMCA). This work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

8. Author fees

Any fees or charges that are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal shall be clearly stated in a place that is easy for potential authors to find prior to submitting their manuscripts for review or explained to authors before they begin preparing their manuscript for submission. If no such fees are charged that should also be clearly stated.

There are no publication fees. Only those fullpapers that have been accepted for publication and have been presented at the AMCA congress will be published with no cost charged to the authors.

9. Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct

Publishers and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In no case shall a journal or its editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines (or equivalent) in dealing with allegations.

The process to identify and deal with allegations of research misconduct can be found in the Research Misconduct page.

10. Publication Ethics

A journal shall also have policies on publishing ethics. These should be clearly visible on its website, and should refer to: i) Journal policies on authorship and contributorship; ii) How the journal will handle complaints and appeals; iii) Journal policies on conflicts of interest / competing interests; iv) Journal policies on data sharing and reproducibility; v) Journal’s policy on ethical oversight; vi) Journal’s policy on intellectual property; and vii) Journal’s options for post-publication discussions and corrections.

The publication ethics and publication malpractice statement for this title can be found in the Code of Ethics page.

11. Publishing schedule

The periodicity at which a journal publishes shall be clearly indicated.

These conference proceedings are published annually and contain the full papers from national and international events organized by the Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics.

12. Access

The way(s) in which the journal and individual articles are available to readers and whether there are associated subscription or pay per view fees shall be stated.

The proceedings are published in open-access mode. This publication is diamond open access, without any cost to authors or readers.

13. Archiving

A journal’s plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content (for example, access to main articles via CLOCKSS or PubMed Central) in the event a journal is no longer published shall be clearly indicated.

Since 2024, the conference proceedings, Mecánica Computacional, are archived and preserved for long-term access by the Preservation Network of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP PN). Previous publications are archived and preserved by the Research Center on Computational Methods, CIMEC (CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Litoral), in Santa Fe, Argentina.

14. Revenue sources

Business models or revenue sources (e.g., author fees, subscriptions, advertising, reprints, institutional support, and organizational support) shall be clearly stated or otherwise evident on the journal’s website. Publishing fees or waiver status should not influence editorial decision making.

AMCA offers this publication as a service to increase the visibility of the works of its members and conference participants and is not expected to receive revenues from it.

15. Advertising

Journals shall state their advertising policy if relevant, including what types of adverts will be considered, who makes decisions regarding accepting adverts and whether they are linked to content or reader behaviour (online only) or are displayed at random. Advertisements should not be related in any way to editorial decision making and shall be kept separate from the published content.

This publication and the whole webpage do not contain advertisements.

16. Direct marketing

Any direct marketing activities, including solicitation of manuscripts that are conducted on behalf of the journal, shall be appropriate, well targeted, and unobtrusive. Information provided about the publisher or journal is expected to be truthful and not misleading for readers or authors.

This publication and the whole webpage do not contain direct marketing activities.

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