Authorship confers credit and has important academic, social and financial implications. It also implies responsibility for what is published and its results.

The Conciencia Digital Journal establishes that authorship is based on the following four criteria:

1. Substantial contributions to the design, acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data;
2. Writing and critical review of intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be published;
4. Agreement to be responsible for all aspects of the work and its results.

All those designated as authors must meet all four criteria for authorship. An author must be able to identify which coauthors are responsible for other specific parts of the work and must have confidence in the integrity of his or her coauthors' contributions. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgments.

The articles published in the Conciencia Digital Magazine retain the property rights (copyright) of the published works, which favors and allows their reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Ecuador license, for which they can be copied, used, distributed, transmitted and publicly displayed, provided that the authorship and original source of its publication are cited, they are not used for commercial or onerous purposes, and the existence and specifications of this license of use are mentioned.

Author Charges

Conciencia Digital maintains a firm commitment to the Open Access model; consequently, it does not require authors to pay any fees or charges (APCs) for the submission, review, processing, or publication of their manuscripts. All operational costs associated with the editorial workflow—including OJS platform management, external evaluation, copyediting, typesetting, metadata tagging, web publication, and long-term digital preservation policies—are fully covered by the institutional funding of *Ciencia Digital* Publishing.

Our primary mission is to democratize and enhance the dissemination of high-impact scientific and technological output of global interest, ensuring that financial barriers do not hinder the advancement of knowledge or negatively affect researchers and their affiliated institutions. Furthermore, in alignment with international ethical standards and scientific rigor, members of the external review committee—who participate in the blind peer-review process—perform their duties on a strictly voluntary basis, altruistically providing valuable technical assessments to ensure the academic excellence of our publication.