Public statement of institutional support for DORA

Investigaciones Latinoamericanas en Ingeniería y Arquitectura, part of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, promotes rigorous, ethical, and socially relevant academic research aimed at strengthening critical thinking, generating knowledge, and contributing to human, social, environmental, and technological development.  

In this regard, the institution prioritizes the quality, relevance, social impact, and diversity of academic products, beyond traditional quantitative metrics, and values scientific production accessible in Spanish and English, especially that which responds to the needs of our regional context. 

That is why, as a journal, we signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) in 2026. The principles of DORA are aligned with the institutional objectives of equity in evaluation, strengthening open science, recognition of disciplinary and linguistic diversity, and the social impact of research, among others, allowing for a fairer and more contextualized assessment of academic production and expanding publication options for researchers. 

The journal EInvestigaciones Latinoamericanas en Ingeniería y Arquitectura is taking steps to implement DORA principles:

- Elimination of promotion of impact factors or journal-based metrics (5-year impact factor, EigenFactor, SCImago, h-index)
- Implementation of article-level metrics to encourage evaluation based on the content of the product  

The journal Investigaciones Latinoamericanas en Ingeniería y Arquitectura also commits to gradually developing the following actions aimed at implementing DORA principles:

- Encouraging responsible authorship and providing information on the specific contributions of each author.
- Facilitating the reuse of reference lists from research articles by making them available under a public domain license. 
- Reducing restrictions on the number of references
- Promoting the citation of primary literature when relevant to adequately recognize original contributions

The evaluation of research and implementation of DORA principles at Investigaciones Latinoamericanas en Ingeniería y Arquitectura is the responsibility of Dr. Mauricio Pohl.

For inquiries or additional information, please contact: revista.ilia@uca.edu.sv