About the Journal

Focus and Scope

MOMENTO is a journal created in the Department of Physics in 1989. Since then, it has published every six months original unpublished results of basic and applied research in diverse areas of Physics, as well as short articles, reflection articles, and review articles on the current state of some of the most active problems in the field. Its scope includes, among others, the following areas:

Materials Science and Engineering
Solid State Physics
High Energy Physics
Relativity
Fluid Mechanics
Optics
Medical Physics and Biophysics
Geophysics
Nuclear Physics
Physical Chemistry
Chaos and Complexity
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.

How to publish in MOMENTO, Journal of Physics?

Authors must submit their manuscripts directly to momento_fcbog@unal.edu.co and comply with the journal’s submission requirements. Each manuscript undergoes an initial editorial review, reviewer search, and double-blind peer review. Revised versions may be requested before acceptance, and accepted articles are published online on MOMENTO’s website. For more information, please consult the MOMENTO Editorial Process and the Guidelines for Authors infographies.

MOMENTO publishes free of charge the accepted articles.

Peer Review Process

Once the manuscript has been received and has passed the initial review by the Editorial Committee, MOMENTO begins the search for peer reviewers who are experts in the subject area of the article. For this purpose, the journal takes into account the keywords, the topic of the manuscript, and, when applicable, the reviewers suggested by the authors. Selected reviewers must be external to the authors’ institution.

The journal conducts peer review under a double-blind system. In the first stage, potential reviewers are sent the title and abstract of the article. Once they accept the invitation, they receive the full manuscript together with MOMENTO’s evaluation form. Based on the reviewers’ reports, the Editorial Committee makes the corresponding decision regarding the manuscript.

You may consult MOMENTO’s evaluation form template.

To learn more about MOMENTO’s editorial process, please click here.

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

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

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.