About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal AD-GNOSIS is published by the Corporación Universitaria Americana and its purpose is to disseminate, among academics, professionals and students, academic works in areas of knowledge such as Economics, Management, Organizations, Strategy, Marketing, Accounting and, in general, in the social sciences, with emphasis on topics related to Administrative, Managerial and Organizational Economics.

The complete collection of all published issues of AD-GNOSIS is available in free format (Open Access OA) on the web page http://publicaciones.americana.edu.co/index.php/adgnosis. There you can download, free of charge, any text published in the journal.

Frequency

The journal AD-GNOSIS from the year 2022 adopts the model of continuous publication with annual cuts, manuscripts are received at any time of the year, the themes of the issues, and cut-off dates of reception can be established in the calls for papers.

Editorial standards

To ensure high standards of quality and transparency in the selection process of texts for publication in AD-GNOSIS, the journal has a management team composed of an editor-in-chief, an editorial assistant, an Editorial Committee and a Scientific Committee.

The Management will consider for publication original and unpublished texts of research, reflection, literature review and book reviews.  A research text is a text whose purpose is to present the results of an original investigation on a specific topic. A reflection text is a work that examines a particular topic from different angles. A literature review is an essay that evaluates works to provide an overview of the state of a defined field. A book review is an opinion piece that describes the content of a work and gives an exposition of its qualities and defects.

AD-GNOSIS will not accept previously published writings. However, the Board may accept substantial re-elaborations of works that incorporate new relevant information, updates regarding results in a period of time that extends beyond that contemplated in the original article, new empirical material previously unavailable, or other cases that may be submitted for evaluation.

In case of requesting the evaluation of an article with these characteristics, the authors should clearly indicate the intention to present a previously published work but reworked, including a copy of the original paper and indicating in detail what the modifications were. The original publication should be cited.

The editorial protocols established in this document and their permanent updating are the responsibility of the Editorial Board, with the assistance of the Editorial Committee and the Scientific Committee.  The purpose of these protocols is to establish the norms to be observed by all the editorial bodies of AD-GNOSIS so that the content of the journal adheres to the highest academic and ethical standards.

Editorial Times

The journal works to continuously improve the processing times of its articles, currently working with an average time of:

Time between receipt and the first response from the referees: 1 MONTH

Time between receipt and estimated time for publication: 4 MONTHS

Responsibilities of the Management Team

Open the call for papers for each issue of AD-GNOSIS with due anticipation.
Receive the texts, acknowledge receipt to the authors promptly, and indicate the approximate time of the evaluation process, which should not exceed three months.
Make a preliminary review of the texts, taking into account quality and originality criteria, and including the application of tools to detect possible forms of plagiarism.
After this first review, reject the text or send it to two anonymous academic peers for evaluation.
Appoint peer reviewers who are professionals with a master's degree or higher, familiar with the field of the text to be evaluated, who have no ethical impediments of any nature to evaluate the text, and who are not affiliated with the Corporación Universitaria Americana or the institutions to which the authors belong.
Ensure the transparency and confidentiality of the evaluation of the work, and compliance with the deadlines set for the evaluators.
Accept or reject for publication the evaluated works, in the light of the concepts of the academic peers.
Submit the content of each issue of the journal to the Editorial Committee for approval.
Immediately deal with complaints or observations on the content of AD-GNOSIS, or any complaint about violations of the principles of transparency established in this Code. In the case of minor complaints, the Management will diligently advance the corresponding inquiries and resolve the problem promptly. In other cases, Management will inform the Editorial Committee, which will be responsible for resolving the matter.
Send each issue of AD-GNOSIS in a timely manner to the repositories and indexing systems, exchange lists, and other institutional recipients and subscribers.

Responsibilities of authors

The submission of a manuscript for consideration by the AD-GNOSIS Editorial Board implies that the authors:

They know, accept, and comply with the AD-GNOSIS Editorial Code of Ethics .
Declare that the text is original, that it has not been published before (except as a draft, working paper, thesis or similar) and that it has not been submitted for publication elsewhere.
Clearly identify the authors of the work, who take full responsibility for its content.
They give due credit to the ideas and quotations of third parties, including obtaining the corresponding authorizations to use material that requires it.
Agree to submit the text to AD-GNOSIS in accordance with the Instructions for Authors.
They understand that the submission of a paper for evaluation does not imply a commitment by the journal to publish it.
They accept that their text will be evaluated by anonymous academic peers and that they will attend to their observations, if any, within the deadline set by the Editor.  The corrected text with the observations of the peers must be accompanied by a letter to the Director's Office explaining how each one of them was dealt with. Any disagreement with any of these observations must be justified.
They agree that, if their work is published in AD-GNOSIS, they authorize the journal to publish their article through the assignment form.
They agree to give credit to AD-GNOSIS if they later decide to publish it elsewhere.
They will give due recognition to all those institutions and persons who have contributed in any way to the elaboration of the work.
They will provide the information that supports their work for the purposes of the editorial review of the Directorate or peer review.
Report in an initial footnote any source of financing that has contributed to the development of the study, as well as any other link that may influence the interpretation of the results. Explicitly disclose any financial, labor, or patrimonial conflict of interest.
They shall make due attribution of ideas quoted in quotation marks, paraphrased or taken from different sources, which belong to other authors. Appropriating someone else's ideas in any way without clear attribution constitutes plagiarism, which is a very serious ethical misconduct and will result in the rejection of the text by the Management.
They will immediately notify the Management of AD-GNOSIS if they discover any significant error in a text of their authorship that has already been published, so that an erratum can be included in a subsequent issue. This applies to empirical data, bibliographic references, inclusion (or exclusion) of co-authors, or errors in the authors' institutional affiliation statement.