About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The JISTEM has the mission of disseminating the academic researches of high quality and solid methodological structure from the fields of Information System, Information Technology and Information Science concerning all aspects of Management within a multidisciplinary perspective, in private and public institutions and the society as well.

Editorial Policy of JISTEM privileges the publication of scientific articles that address practices and theories in its main areas, but also in the integration of these with other areas, through empirical research, case studies, exploratory research, among others.

All papers submitted for evaluation must be original and should not be under review in any other publication. Articles should be in accordance with the objectives proposed by the journal. All papers submitted for evaluation of JISTEM are evaluated by the Editor. If accepted, they are evaluated by the Scientific Board or ad hoc, in double blind review. A copy of the reviewers' comments is sent to the authors. If approved, the article goes through editorial advice, spelling and grammar review. The estimated timeframe for the evaluation process is two to four months.

Publication Frequency

Continuous publication since January 2018.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Brief history

JISTEM was created in 2004 by Prof. Edson Luiz Riccio and is published by TECSI –FEA/USP.

JISTEM's mission is to publish relevant research for the management of technology and information systems and information science in organizations and society in a multidisciplinary perspective.

JISTEM is evaluated and classified by the Qualis/CAPES System in several areas.

Index and Directories

  • SciELO
  • Redalyc
  • WOS Scielo Citation Index
  • Latindex
  • Proquest
  • Ulrich's Periodical Directory
  • DOAJ
  • The Index of Information Systems Journals
  • ACPHIS
  • Dialnet
  • Ebsco
  • Gale Infotrac
  • Portal de Periódicos USP
  • SPELL
  • CAPES
  • PKP
  • CLASE

Archiving and digital preservation

Copyright

Rights and Permission

The articles are the full responsibility of the authors and all rights reserved to TECSI FEA USP. TECSI FEA USP owns the copyright of published articles, including translations. Reproductions are only permitted with the express permission of JISTEM

Authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and interest conflicts and financial support that may influence their work.

For publication, authors must sign the Copyright Assignment Term for TECSI FEA USP.

Peer Review Process

All papers submitted for evaluation must be original and should not be under review in any other publication. Articles should be in accordance with the objectives proposed by the journal. All papers submitted for evaluation of JISTEM are evaluated by the Editor. If accepted, they are evaluated by the Scientific Board or ad hoc, in double blind review. A copy of the reviewers' comments is sent to the authors. If approved, the article goes through editorial advice, spelling and grammar review. The estimated timeframe for the evaluation process is two to four months.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Here we describe our "Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement". Please note that this section is frequently update as to reflect new practices recommendations from COPE and/or other source on best practices.

  1. All manuscripts are submitted to the similarity analysis. JISTEM Journal uses Turnitin Ithenticate system provided by Crossref to its members. JISTEM is a direct member of Crossref. Following, alll submitted manuscripts are subject to peer-review process. High quality manuscripts are peer-reviewed by minimum two peers of the same field. JISTEM Journal follows the double blind review policy to ensure neutral evaluation. During this review process identity of both the authors and reviewers are kept hidden to ensure unbiased evaluation. Now we have migrated to transparent and toughest ‘Advanced OPEN peer review’ system. Identity of the authors and reviewers will be revealed to each other during this review process. This transparent process will help to eradicate any possible malicious/purposeful interference by any person (publishing staff, reviewer, editor, author, etc) during peer review. As a result of this unique system all reviewers will get their due recognition and respect, once their names are published with the papers. If reviewers do not want to reveal their identities, we will honor that request. In that case only the review reports will be published as ‘anonymous reviewer report’.
  1. The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, completeness, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language. JISTEM believes that no manuscript should be rejected only on the basis of ‘lack of Novelty’, provided the manuscript is sufficiently robust and technically sound. Too often a journal's decision to publish a paper is dominated by what the Editor/reviewer think is interesting and will gain greater readership — both of which are subjective judgments and lead to decisions which are frustrating and delay the publication. JISTEM Journal will peer-review your submissions and publish all papers that are judged to be technically sound. Judgments about the importance of any particular paper are then made after publication by the readership (who are the most qualified to determine what is of interest to them).
  2. With the help of the reviewers’ comments, FINAL decision (accepted or accepted with minor revision or accepted with major revision or rejected) will be sent to the corresponding author. Reviewers are asked if they would like to review a revised version of the manuscript. The editorial office may request a re-review regardless of a reviewer's response in order to ensure a thorough and fair evaluation. Reviewers who may have offered an opinion not in accordance with the FINAL decision should not feel that their recommendation was not duly considered and their service not properly appreciated. Experts often disagree, and it is the job of the editorial team to make a FINAL decision.
  3. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
  4. Rejected papers are given the opportunity for a formal appeal. Appeal requests should be made in writing, not by telephone, and should be addressed to jistem@usp.br the word "appeal" in the subject line. If an author remains unsatisfied, he or she can write to the Editorial Office, citing the manuscript reference number. In all these cases, it is likely that some time will elapse before JISTEM can respond, and the paper must not be submitted for publication elsewhere during this time. Authors should provide detailed reasons for the appeal and point-by-point responses to the reviewers' and/or Academic Editor's comments. Authors should also be aware that priority is given to new submissions to the journal and so the processing of the appeal may well take longer than the processing of the original submission. If an appeal is rejected, further appeals of the decision will not be considered and the paper may not be resubmitted.
  5. Articles may be rejected without review if the Editor considers the article obviously not suitable for publication.
  6. The editor of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
  7. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
  8. The editor confers with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
  9. The reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  10. The editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  11. Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. JISTEM believes in constructive criticism. Reviewers are encouraged to be honest but not offensive in their language (Unnecessarily harsh words may be modified or removed at the editors' discretion). It is expected that the reviewers should suggest the authors on how they can strengthen their paper to make it acceptable. Comments of the reviewers should be sufficiently informative and helpful to reach an Editorial Decision. We strongly advise that a negative review should also explain the weaknesses of any manuscript, so that the concerned authors can understand the basis of rejection and he/she can improve the manuscript based on those comments. Authors also should not confuse straightforward and true comments with unfair criticism.
  12. Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions. Additionally we believe that one of the main objectives of peer review system is ‘to improve the quality of a candidate manuscript’.
  13. Manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents.
  14. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention for any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  15. Authors of contributions and studies research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
  16. Sufficient details of the methods/process should be provided inside the manuscript so that another researcher is able to reproduce the experiments described. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  17. The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. JISTEM international strongly opposes the practice of duplicate publication or any type of plagiarism. If you suspect any unethical practice in this manuscript, kindly write it in the report with some proof/web links. Studies which are carried out to reconfirm / replicate the results of any previously published paper with new data-set, may be considered for publication. But these types of studies should have a ‘clear declaration’ of this matter. Self-plagiarism, also referred to as ‘text recycling’, is a topical issue and is currently generating much discussion among editors. Opinions are divided as to how much text overlap with an author’s own previous publications is acceptable. We normally follow the guidelines given in COPE website. Editors, reviewers and authors are also requested to strictly follow this excellent guideline (Reference: Text Recycling Guidelines: http://publicationethics.org/text-recycling-guidelines). Plagiarized manuscripts would not be considered for publication. If plagiarism is found in any published paper after internal investigation, a letter would be immediately sent to all the authors, their affiliated institutes and funding agency, if applied and subsequently the paper will be retracted.
  18. Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication.
  19. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  20. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. Submission of a paper to this journal indicates that the author(s) have agreed the content of the paper. One author should be indicated as corresponding author for all publication related communications. All correspondence and proofs would be sent to the corresponding author, who will be treated as final representative voice for all authors regarding any decision related to manuscript, unless otherwise requested during submission. This journal would not be responsible for any dispute related to authorship of a submitted paper. Any change in the authorship (such as addition or deletion of author(s) or change in the sequence of author list) should be intimated to the editorial office through a letter signed by all authors before publication of the paper. In absence of any signed letter, approval of 'Galley proof' by corresponding author will work as 'certificate of final agreement of authorship'. Generally any change in the authorship after final publication, is not entertained and COPE guidelines are followed for any dispute.
  21. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed by authors.
  22. When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
  23. JISTEM Journal is published ONLINE only. Authors should note that no hard copy will be published in order to minimize the additional carbon footprint, resulting from printing on papers.
  24. The study has not been published (partly or as a whole) before or is not under consideration for publication elsewhere (except as an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis). We will consider manuscripts that have been deposited in preprint servers such as archive or published in institutional repositories. We will also consider work that has been presented at conferences (Significant amount of changes should be made before submission to the journal and proper citation of the conference paper is required).
  25. It is compulsory for the authors to ensure that no material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights, or the rights of a third party.
  26. Journal is determined to promote integrity in research publication. We follow the guidelines, given by COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS (COPE) for any publication disputes, authorship disputes, etc. For these kinds of disputes. We constantly follow the COPE guidelines presented in their website. Author(s) are also requested to do so. COPE’s Code of Conduct and its advice to tackle cases of suspected misconduct, are available here. We follow the update made by COPE in 2017 known as CORE PRACTICES, which replaced the Code of Conduct. The COPE CORE PRACTICES is the new set of practices covering the 10 most important areas of practices. To access the COPE CORE PRACTICES visit: https://publicationethics.org/core-practices
  1. The copyrights of all papers published in this journal are retained by the respective authors as per the 'Creative Commons Attribution License' . The author(s) should be the sole author(s) of the article and should have full authority to enter into agreement and in granting rights to JISTEM international, which are not in breach of any other obligation. The author(s) should ensure the integrity of the paper and related works. Authors should mandatorily ensure that submission of manuscript to JISTEM international would result into no breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy.
  2. The research must meet all applicable standards for the ethics of experimentation and research integrity.

Sponsors

The publication receives support from:

  • TECSI Laboratório de Tecnologia e Sistemas de Informação – FEA USP
  • Agência de biblioteca e coleções digitais da Universidade de São Paulo – ABCD USP