About the Journal

Focus and Scope

MOMENTO, Physics Magazine, publishes every six months original unpublished results of basic and applied research on diverse areas of Physics, as well as short, reflection and revision articles about the current state of the most active Physics problems, on: Science and Materials Engineering, Solid State Physics, High Energy Physics, Optics, Medical Physics and Biology, Geophysics, Nuclear Physics, Physical Chemistry, Chaos and Complexity, Epistemology and Philosophy of Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

MOMENTO publishes results generated in Colombia and other parts of the world and is addressed basically to Physicist, Engineers, Academicians, and Professionals from public and private entities, local or foreign.

MOMENTO is indexed in Web of Science, SciELO Colombia, EBSCO (Fuente Académica Premier), Latindex, Google Scholar and DOAJ.

MOMENTO has a scientific committee of significant trajectory, and with institutional and geographical diversity. This allows having a great variety of evaluations and opinions.

MOMENTO has an especial interest in spreading the knowledge related to physics.

MOMENTO has semiannual publications and additionally publishes special issues that contain conference papers of national and international conferences.

Peer Review Process

Each manuscript is submitted to an evaluation process by peers (Peer Review) chosen by the Editorial Committee. The content of the articles should not have been published, totally or partially, in another magazine.

In situations in which a member of the editorial committee appears as an author or co-author of a manuscript, 2 peer reviewers are assigned.

The Editorial Committee could reject, suggest changes or even carry out modifications to the literary style without altering the scientific content. The final version of the articles accepted for publication should be revised by each one of the authors. The evaluation time is at least one month. The accuracy of the information in the manuscripts, including figures, tables, and bibliographical citations is the complete responsibility of the author or the authors.

MOMENTO follows the system of peer reviewing with a double-blind system to ensure the objectivity of the evaluators and avoid interest conflicts. The process goes as follows:

Search of evaluators according to the keywords of the article and the author’s recommendations.
The request is sent with the article´s title and the abstract.
As soon as the evaluator confirms that they are going to review the article, the document is sent in PDF format and an evaluation format.
Once we get all the comments and suggestions of the reviewer, this is sent to the author and the editorial committee takes the editorial decision.

Publication ethics

Due to the article publication is an essential part of the knowledge divulgation and evidence of the quality of the investigation, it is expected that all the people that are involved to know and respect the agreements about ethical behaviors that allows guaranteeing the right divulgation and promotion of the knowledge.

Author’s obligations

The authors must commit themselves to follow the points established below to ensure that the publication complies with the ethical points established by MOMENTO.

When the authors send their article, they must include the specialties of the article, in order to ease the search for reviewers.
The authors must include reviewers suggestions. These must include: name, e-mail, institution, and specialties of the reviewers. We suggest these reviewers be of a different institution that the one of the authors.
The articles must be detailed and properly referenced in order to allow the reproduction of the investigation.
Fraudulent or inexact statements and the data modifications constitute an anti-ethical behavior.
If for the investigation were used dangerous chemical products, procedures or equipment, the author must clearly identify this in the article.
If for the investigation were used animals, people or genome, the author must assure of include in the article a declaration that says explicitly that all the procedures were made following the guidelines and ethical rules. In Colombia, this is ruled by the resolution 8430 of the 4 of October of 1993 of the Heath Ministery.
The privacy rights of the human beings implicated in the investigation must be respected.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined as the act of copying in the substantial works of others, giving them as their own, this must be avoided and is a cause of rejection of an article, below are the points to be taken into account related to plagiarism.

Plagiarism has different degrees of seriousness.
Plagiarism is an anti-ethical activity and must be avoided.
If the author wants to include a verbatim copy of other text, even if it is of their authorship, it must be correctly referenced and identified with the appropriate citation signs.
We remind the authors that the paraphrase also must be rightly referenced. Otherwise, it will be considered plagiarism.
To avoid the publication of articles with plagiarism, all of them are evaluated with Turnitin.
In the case of the article has more than 30% of plagiarism it will be immediately rejected without the peer evaluation.

Fragmentation

Fragmentation happens when an investigation is divided into two or more publications. This is an anti-ethical practice that must be avoided.

Duplicated publication

The duplicated publications happen when an article is sent to more than one magazine at the time, or when an article that already has been published in another magazine is sent for consideration.

The authors must prove that their article is an original product, this means, that it has not been published before.
The articles sent to MOMENTO cannot be submitted simultaneously to another magazine.

Conflict of interests

The conflict of interests happens when the author has any opinion or monetary or personal interest that might affect the investigation process.
The authors must say if they have any conflict of interest that may influence their investigation.
All the sources that gave financial support must be in the article.

Authorship

Those who sign as the authors of the article must comply with the requirements listed below.

1. To be considered an author there are three points that they must have.

They must have a substantial contribution to the design, data conception, analysis and interpretation of the investigation.
They must have a contribution in the redaction or revision of the article content.
They must participate in the approbation of the final version.

2. The people that made a contribution but that do not fit with the points mentioned before are considered collaborators.

3. There are three kinds of anti-ethical authorship:

Ghost authors: They have a substantial contribution, but they are not recognized, they are usually hired by commercial promotors.
Guest author: Are the ones who do not have any contribution but they are named to increase their chances of being published due to the importance of this author in the field of the investigation.
Honorarium authors: are the ones who are named because of a tenuous affiliation with the study.

Authorship changes

This aspect refers to the addition, reorganization or elimination of an author once the article has been accepted.
The request must be sent by the author of the article with the following information:

The reason for the appeal of addition, reorganization or elimination
The confirmation that all the authors agreed. In the case of addition or removal, the author must present the confirmation that he/she wants to be included or eliminated.

Peer evaluation

MOMENTO Physics Magazine is committed itself to publish articles with scientific quality; therefore, it counts with the double-blind peer reviewing to avoid conflict of interest. The peer evaluation goes as follows:

Once the author sends their article to MOMENTO, the editorial assistants proceed to the search of the peer reviewers, for this task they use the keywords and the field of the investigation (these must be indicated by the author with the submission of the article). The reviewer's suggestions might be taken into account.
The Editor of the magazine checks the list of reviewers and choose the ones that he considers the most accurate to do the evaluation.
The assistant sends an e-mail to invite the evaluator to review the article with the title and the abstract. The evaluator has three days to answer this e-mail.
If the reviewer agrees to do the evaluation we send them the article in PDF format and an evaluation form. Additionally, we create a username in the OJS system, so that the reviewer has the two options to choose the one that is more comfortable. The reviewer has 30 days to complete the evaluation.
ALL THE EVALUATION PROCESS HAS THE DOUBLE-BLIND SYSTEM.

Frequency of publication

MOMENTO is a biannual publication, additionally publishes special issues resulting from national and international conferences and conferences.

January - June, (First issue) publication date: January 1

July - December, (Second number) publication date: July 1

Open access policy

MOMENTO is a journal that is under the Open Access policy, under the principle that making research available to the public free of charge supports a greater exchange of global knowledge. This means that anyone can access the articles published in the journal and the authors should not pay any fee for the publication of their article.