Editorial process

• The Call for Papers is announced
• Authors upload their articles to the Easy Chair platform
• The peer review process for the individual articles within each proceedings collection is under the responsibility of the conference organizers, scientific committee and guest editors of each issue
• The scientific committee of the congress (consisting of senior researchers in the relevant field) selects the review committee based on their professional experience and publications
• Selected reviewers are invited to be part of the review committee
• Articles are assigned to reviewers according to their area of expertise. Double blind peer review is used
• The reviewers issue comments and grades for assigned articles
• The authors make the suggested corrections
• The reviewers issue a final grade between 3 and -3. The minimum grade for the article to be selected is 1.5
• The journal’s editorial board subsequently performs a final quality check and only then are the articles released for publication

ESPOCH Congresses: The Ecuadorian Journal of S.T.E.A.M. does not accept individual submissions for consideration.

Upon publishing, all authors will be automatically registered for content alerts from the publication. To stop receiving the alerts, authors can subsequently unsubscribe through the link provided in the email.

Long-term archiving

To preserve the scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain available to future generations of scholars and researchers, KnE Publishing content is archived in Portico, a not-for-profit organization with a mission and singular focus to provide a permanent archive of electronic scholarly content.

Portico representative offices are located in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan.

Article processing charges and fees

This journal is a platinum Open Access journal. This means the journal is published Open Access and if your article is accepted for publication you will not have to pay an article processing charge (APC).

Copyright and Open Access policies

This is an Open Access journal. All published articles are freely available on the journal website without any charge. 

All of the articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), where authors retain the copyright of their work, and this license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

To provide proper attribution when citing articles in this journal, please include:

• Author names
• Full article title
• Journal title
• Publication year
• Volume and issue numbers
• Pagination