Focus and scope

Revista Movimiento Científico (ISSN 2011-7191) - (ISSNE 2463-2236) is a serial, biannual and refereed electronic publication, edited from the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Research Division and the Program of Physiotherapy of the Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana. 

View. To be a publication recognized nationally and internationally for its contribution to scientific knowledge in the area of health, related to human body movement and collective health, being considered a space for production and visibility of the research that professionals in the area are developing under criteria of innovation and quality.

Mission. Revista Movimiento Científico aims to disseminate Articles of Research and Innovation, reflection or review products; Short articles; Case reports; Subject revisions or essays; Letters to the editor; Editorials; Translations and Bibliographic Reviews that contribute to strengthen and ground the Human Body Movement as a multidimensional and multidisciplinary field closely related to human health, public health, collective health, the environment and human development, among others. That is, it seeks to communicate and disseminate the results of robust research processes, contributing to the construction and transformation of high-quality scientific knowledge, generating social impact on the problems related to human body movement. 

About us. Revista Movimiento Científico is a publication belonging to the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana, which seeks to disseminate the results of research projects and theoretical reviews that contribute to the construction and transformation of scientific knowledge related to human body movement.

Peer review process

Revista Movimiento Científico has a Editorial/Scientific Committee, and a clear, pedagogical and demanding process for the arbitration of all documents proposed for possible publication in it.

Quality and visibility 

To achieve greater visibility and dissemination, the Revista Movimiento Científico is available at the following electronic address: http://revmovimientocientifico.ibero.edu.co. In order to guarantee the quality of the articles published, the Journal complies with a selection process by the Editor, the Editorial / Scientific Committee, and expert peer reviewers (internal and external arbitration). The articles must conform to the grammar rules, using scientific and technical terms appropriately.

The arbitration (evaluation) process for each of the articles proposed for publication in the Journal consists of the following phases:

  1. Selection and first review by the Editor. Selection criteria: scientific soundness, originality, methodological coherence, timeliness and impact that can be achieved. From this the first comments to the document are made.
  2. Communication about first comments or suggestions about the article to the authors. Derived from the first step, once the required adjustments have been made, the author (s) must send the corrected version of the article.
  3. Selection of evaluating peers and submission of the article for evaluation. This process guarantees the quality, originality and relevance of the articles; It is also done double-blind. An arbitration is carried out by an internal evaluation pair to the Publishing Institution and an arbitration by an external evaluation pair to the Institution.
  4. Submission of the results of the evaluation by referees. The results of the evaluation are sent along with all the comments made to the article in the previous step and once the required adjustments are made, the author (s) must send the final version of their article.
  5. Approval and publication of the article. In order to carry out this last step, it is essential that the authors complete the format called: Declaration of originality, copyright, patrimonial rights and authorization for publication, whichwill proceed to the final layout of the article, which will be reviewed by the author and will finally proceed to the official publication of the manuscript.

In case of disputes or disparities between the results of the evaluation by referees, the editorial scientific committee or the editor will carry out an analysis of the evaluations and will integrate in a single evaluation the results and recommendations resulting from an analysis and consensus always striving for excellence in the quality of the publications submitted.

In case of disputes between the recommendations or evaluation by arbitrators and the position of the authors, the editorial scientific committee or the editor will ask the authors the valid ethical and scientific arguments that refute the evaluation received; followed by this the editorial scientific committee or the editor will perform an analysis of the arguments presented, a comparison is made with the referees' evaluations and recommendations and by consensus, always striving for excellence in the quality of the submitted publications, will proceed to take the final decision and notification to the authors.

Type of published articles 

The documents submitted to the Revista Movimiento Científico must correspond to one of the following types:

* Research and innovation article. Document that presents, in a detailed manner, the original and unpublished production resulting from a process of investigation, reflection or revision. In any of the three cases, its structure must be presented in the IMRyD methodology: introduction, methodology, results and discussion / conclusions. The articles that the magazine receives should follow the typology presented by Colciencias:

        Derived from research.

        Derived from reflection.

        Derived from revision.

 

* Short article. Short document that presents preliminary or partial original results of a scientific or technological research, which usually require an early dissemination.

* Case report. Document that presents the results of a study on a particular situation in order to make known the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific case.

* Review of topic or essay. Document resulting from the critical, non-systematic review of the literature on a particular topic. The essay is a written composition, which presents our ideas and points of view on a particular topic.

* Letters to the editor. Critical, analytical or interpretative positions on the documents published in the journal, which in the opinion of the Editorial Committee constitute an important contribution to the discussion of the topic by the scientific community of reference.

* Editorial. Document written by the editor, a member of the editorial committee or a guest researcher on guidelines in the thematic domain of the journal.

* Translation. Translations of classical or current texts or transcriptions of historical documents or documents of particular interest in the publication domain of the journal.

* Bibliographic review.

Publication frequency

Revista Movimiento Científico has a biannual publication, so it releases its number in the months of January and June;however, since 2018 we have the Early Print modality;therefore, as soon as the postulated article has completed the revision stages and has obtained approval for publication;the document will be sent to final layout processes and can be published in an anticipated manner to the volume and number of the journal, to which it was postulated. Once the publication dates of each number are fulfilled, it will become official with the disclosure of the final table of contents and the corresponding number editorial.

Open access policy

This journal provides open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps to further global knowledge exchange.

The authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:

  1. The authors retain the copyright and guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication of the work, as well as licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of authorship , the mixture or remix must be published under the same initial publication license, does not allow commercial exploitation of it.
  2. The concepts and opinions expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not commit the Ibero-American University Corporation. The contents of this magazine are distributed under license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
  3. The Movimiento Científico Journal is an open access magazine, so that both the editorial process and the published contents are available to all users free of charge: the Magazine does not charge for reading or publishing.

The articles published by Revista Movimiento Científico and its content have been arranged for wider use through a License: 
 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internacional

 

 Rules of ethics for publications

The Journal adheres to the Code of Conduct and Good Practices for Editors of Scientific Journals proposed by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics).

In order to guarantee the quality of the articles published, the Journal complies with a selection process on the part of the Editor and the Editorial and Scientific Committee, evaluation and comments by peers. The arbitration process for each of the articles proposed for publication in the Journal is double-blind and is a transparent process always seeking excellence in the quality of publications, freedom of expression on the part of researchers or authors, the scientific and academic integrity of the content of the articles to be published. If necessary, the Journal will publish corrections, clarifications, errata, retractions and apologies.

Published articles must ensure that there are no conflicts of interest or that the results presented to readers are free from external interference or pressure from any type of institutions or estates.

The authors must guarantee that their work is original and the sources used must be cited exhaustively, respecting the copyright and following the APA standard, based on which the Journal has established its referencing system. All authors must complete the format called "Declaration of originality, copyright, economic rights and authorization for publication" prior to the publication of the article submitted to the Journal.

Articles that have not signed this declaration or those in which there are flaws related to the disrespect of copyrights such as: plagiarism, manipulation, fabrication or falsification of the data presented as a product of the investigation to be disclosed will not be published. , the simultaneous sending to other journals of the same manuscript, the duplicate publication or the autoplaggio, the phantom authorship, or the fragmentation of the same results in several articles when these constitute a unit. In the cases that any of these faults is detected once the publication has been made, the respective article will be removed from the Journal's collection. In any case, the authors will be notified in a timely and appropriate manner.

Every article published in the Scientific Movement Magazine has the protection of the author's rights under a Creative Commons license. The authors are the owner (s) of the author's rights and authorize, in an unlimited manner in time, the editors of Revista Movimiento Científico to include this article in the volume and number in full text and can reproduce it, edit it, distribute and display it in the country or abroad by electronic means (its website: http://revmovimientocientifico.ibero.edu.co), magnetic or any other known means, or by knowing; that is to say the Scientific Movement Magazine maintains the patrimonial rights.

Journal history

Revista Movimiento Científico is a serial serial scientific journal that begins in 2007 ascribed to the Faculty of Health Sciences, Physical Therapy Program of the Corporación Universitaria Iberoamericana; as a knowledge dissemination strategy generated around the Human Body Movement, Public Health and related areas. In its first 8 years it had an annual periodicity, that is, a volume and a number per year; but as of the year 2015, volume 9 the Journal assumes a biannual periodicity, counting on two numbers per year.