Scientometric Performance

IPSUMTEC transcends the role of a mere dissemination outlet to establish itself as a cutting-edge editorial platform, designed under the principles of Open Science and aligned with the technical standards of the world's most demanding and prestigious indexes, including Web of Science and Elsevier's Scopus. Its editorial architecture rests on four fundamental pillars: transparency in the evaluation process, rigorous author identity disambiguation, verifiable institutional traceability, and demonstrable post-publication integrity.

Persistent Identifiers and ISO Standards

The global interoperability of content published in IPSUMTEC is ensured through the integration of a complete ecosystem of internationally recognized persistent identifiers (PIDs), whose consistent implementation spans all 342 articles published in the journal's historical archive.

100% of authors and editorial team members hold an active, linked ORCID identifier (ISO 27729), ensuring the accurate attribution of scientific output regardless of variations in name spelling or institutional changes. The affiliation of Tecnológico Nacional de México is standardized through the Research Organization Registry (ROR), the institutional identification system adopted by Crossref, DataCite, and the leading global academic metrics aggregators, allowing external databases to automatically verify the genuine institutional diversity of published authorship. The legal identity of the publishing entity continues to advance toward full consolidation through the ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier), thereby completing the disambiguation chain that runs from author to institution and from institution to publishing entity.

Each published article is assigned a Crossref-prefixed DOI at two levels—article and issue—ensuring the permanent stability of the link, citation traceability, and integration with the leading academic metrics ecosystems. The serial identity of the publication is fixed through its ISSN, registered with the National ISSN Center of Mexico and recognized by the ISSN International Centre in Paris.

The integrity of the post-publication record is ensured through the implementation of Crossmark, Crossref's official standard for managing updates, corrections, and retractions. Through the Crossmark button present on each article, any reader or automated system can verify in real time whether a given piece of content remains valid as originally published or has undergone subsequent modifications. This tool is not a cosmetic requirement: it is the technical expression of IPSUMTEC's commitment to ongoing editorial transparency beyond the moment of publication.

The following table summarizes the complete ecosystem of technical standards implemented:

This comprehensive implementation profile is unusual even among journals well-established in high-impact indices. Most Ibero-American scientific publications operate with three or four of these standards; IPSUMTEC articulates all of them coherently and verifiably, configuring a metadata infrastructure that meets the technical requirements of Web of Science, Scopus, and the leading international academic metrics aggregators.

Scientific Impact and Visibility

IPSUMTEC's cumulative output comprises 342 articles published over nine years of uninterrupted activity, with a consistent biannual frequency that demonstrates the publication's operational stability and established editorial capacity. This volume of content has generated more than 200 verified citations on Google Scholar, evidence that the scientific community consumes, references, and builds upon the knowledge published in the journal.

IPSUMTEC's visibility and impact also extend to leading international platforms for bibliometric analysis and scientific discovery, notably Dimensions, Scilit, Dialnet Métricas, and OpenAlex, broadening the indexing reach of its content and facilitating its tracking, aggregation, and scientometric analysis by the international academic community. This multi-platform presence reinforces citation traceability and the interoperability of the journal's metadata with the leading global scientific evaluation systems.

Editorial Quality and Presence in Databases

The rigor of the double-blind peer review process and the technical consistency of its metadata are backed by its presence in the most relevant reference systems in the region and worldwide. IPSUMTEC meets the full set of Latindex criteria, one of the most comprehensive reference systems for Ibero-American scientific journals. Its dissemination in secondary databases is continuously monitored through MIAR, and its content is indexed in Biblat/CLASE (UNAM), reference repositories of unquestionable standing for scientific literature in Latin America.

Additionally, the journal maintains an active presence in PERIÓDICA (UNAM), ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources), and the Keepers Registry, which certifies the long-term digital preservation of the editorial archive, as well as Crossref, the core infrastructure for metadata registration and linking that underpins DOI assignment and interoperability with the rest of the international scientific indexing ecosystem. This combined coverage establishes a profile of discoverability, preservation, and metadata verification fully aligned with the evaluation requirements of Web of Science and Scopus.

The adoption of these principles is not a formal requirement but an editorial conviction: scientific knowledge fulfills its social function only when it is truly accessible, attributable, verifiable, and enduringly intact over time.

Last updated: July 30, 2026.