About the journal

1. Focus and Scope
2. Mission and vision
3. Thematic orientation and objective public
4. Type and language of articles
5. Periodicity
6. Financing
7. Open access, copyrights and license for publication
8. Content archiving
9. Responsibility for content
10. Indexation

FOCUS AND SCOPE

The Scientific Journal Perspectives in Intelligence, abbreviated Perspect. Intel, is a peer-reviewed, open access academic publication edited annually by the College of Intelligence and Counterintelligence "BG. Ricardo Charry Solano" (ESICI) of the National Army of Colombia.

Perspectivas en Inteligencia is an interdisciplinary journal, with a focus on Social Sciences, which aims to disseminate the academic and research production of teachers and students of the ESICI, as well as different university institutions at national and international level. Therefore, the journal is positioned as an element of strong encouragement to the dissemination of knowledge topics in the economic, social, administrative and accounting areas, or related national or international current affairs, presenting the results of research, development of creativity and intellectual production of professionals; the content of the journal is aimed at specialists, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students.

MISSION AND VISION

MISSION:

To be an international reference in the debate and dissemination of new knowledge produced in the thematic areas of interest for strategic and military intelligence, through the publication of original results of academic research projects.

VISION:

To be the main medium for the dissemination of academic, scientific and technological debates on strategic and military intelligence in Colombia with international projection.

THEMATIC ORIENTATION AND OBJECTIVE PUBLIC

The contents of the Perspectivas en Inteligencia journal are framed in the following thematic axes and corresponding disciplines:

a) Intelligence and Counterintelligence
b) Economics
c) History and Philosophy
d) Administration and Finance
e) Technology and development

The journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia has as its thematic foundations the lines of research, research workshops and scientific events, all of them created and led by the College of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (ESICI), as well as those carried out by the academic community that conforms it. In addition to providing new knowledge in the field of science, which is very significant in our role as an institution of higher education. This results in topics of great importance for national security, intelligence and counterintelligence that respond to the needs of our military and academic personnel respectively.

This journal is aimed at a wide audience that includes policy makers, members of the Armed Forces, public servants, professionals, teachers, researchers and undergraduate and graduate students of social sciences and other areas of knowledge from external higher education institutions, interested in strategic thinking and culture; it is focused on the dissemination of the academic and research production of teachers and other members of this community, from the College of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (ESICI), in order to extend the content in the economic, social, human rights, administrative and accounting areas.

In addition to the above, the journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia is mainly addressed to decision makers, officers, non-commissioned officers and academic researchers in the area of strategic and military intelligence, national security and defense, as well as in the different scientific fields that have a direct or indirect link with the sciences of strategy.

TYPE AND LANGUAGE OF ARTICLES

The journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia publishes only articles resulting from scientific and technological research in three languages (Spanish, English and Portuguese). These are defined by Publindex-Minciencias as the original academic document presenting in detail the results derived from completed research or technological development projects with a minimum of 25 cited bibliographic sources.

Research articles: this type of article presents in detail the original results of research projects; its structure includes introduction, methodology, results and conclusions.
Reflection articles: this type of article presents research results from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of the author(s) on a specific topic, using original sources.
Review articles: this type of articles should be the result of a research where the results of published or unpublished research on a field of science and technology are analyzed, systematized and integrated, in order to account for the advances and development trends; it should present a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 cited bibliographic sources.

PERIODICITY

The journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia is published annually (January-December) in digital (e-ISSN: 2745-0171) and printed format (ISSN: 2145-194X). The online and print versions will be published in the fourth quarter of the year. Each of the articles of the Perspectives in Intelligence journal has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assigned for identification and referencing.

FINANCING

The journal Perspectives in Intelligence is an academic publication of the College of Intelligence and Counterintelligence "BG. Ricardo Charry Solano" (ESICI), which in turn belongs to the National Army of Colombia which, as a public entity, is financed with resources allocated by the National Government. In order to maintain its critical and independent character, Perspectivas en Inteligencia does not accept funding from outside ESICI for its functioning.

Thus, the entire publication process of Perspectivas en Inteligencia is completely free of charge for the authors; there are no charges for the submission, processing and publication of articles (no article submission or processing charge).

OPEN ACCESS, COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSE FOR PUBLICATION

Perspectives in Intelligence journal is signatory to the Budapest Declaration and all its published contents are from open access, with full recognition of the moral rights of authors over their work. For publication, authors agree to assign publication rights in favor of the journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia in accordance with the terms of the license Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.

Thus, authors and readers may copy and disseminate the article in the final version published online by the journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia, provided that the author(s) of the article are acknowledged and identified, that no commercial use is made of the final published article, and that no derivative works or modified versions are involved.

CONTENT ARCHIVING

The journal Perspectives in Intelligence allows authors to self-archive their article in institutional repositories, thematic repositories or personal web pages in the final version published online.

The journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia complies with the legal and digital deposit of its different volumes as specified in SIISE - National Library of Colombia and with Portico's digital collections, e-books and e-journals preservation services.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTENT

The responsibility for the content of the articles published by the journal Perspectivas en Inteligencia corresponds exclusively to the authors. The positions and assertions presented are the result of an academic and investigative exercise which does not represent the official or institutional position of the College of Intelligence and Counterintelligence "BG. Ricardo Charry Solano" (ESICI), the National Army of Colombia or the Ministry of National Defense.