FAIR Principles
Pensar Journal adopts, within its editorial policy, practices guided by the FAIR principles, an acronym for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. These principles constitute an international reference for the qualification of scholarly communication and guide the organization, description, dissemination, and use of articles, metadata, supplementary materials, and, when applicable, research data, in alignment with Open Science guidelines.
The FAIR principles aim to ensure that research and scholarly communication objects are structured and described in a technically appropriate manner so that they can be easily found, accessed under clear conditions, integrated across different systems, and reused in a legitimate, transparent, and socially valuable way. Thus, they go beyond mere digital availability, requiring the adoption of standards and practices that enhance visibility, traceability, interoperability, and reuse potential.
With regard to the Findable principle, Pensar Journal promotes the publication of its contents with persistent identifiers, especially DOIs, and with consistent and sufficient metadata to ensure proper identification and retrieval of records. Such metadata include, among other elements, title, authorship, institutional affiliation, ORCID, abstract, keywords, references, and other relevant editorial information. These measures facilitate the discoverability of content by readers, search engines, indexers, directories, and automated scholarly communication systems.
Concerning the Accessible principle, Pensar Journal adopts an open access model, ensuring the full availability of published content in digital environments, in accordance with its editorial policy and applicable licensing terms. Accessibility, in this context, encompasses not only the possibility of reading the texts, but also the clear definition of conditions for access, circulation, sharing, and preservation of published materials.
Regarding the Interoperable principle, Pensar Journal is committed to the use of technical and editorial standards that enable the integration of its content and metadata with different platforms, indexing services, directories, repositories, and digital preservation systems. To this end, it adopts structured formats compatible with digital scholarly communication, notably XML JATS, as well as procedures for organizing and depositing metadata that enhance the circulation and processing of content across diverse information environments.
With respect to the Reusable principle, Pensar Journal encourages practices that expand the conditions for academic, scientific, and institutional reuse of published content, in compliance with standards of attribution, integrity, author responsibility, and licensing. Since 2025, all manuscripts submitted to the journal must be accompanied by a specific form, through which information is provided regarding authorship identification, CRediT taxonomy, the existence and availability of research data, prior dissemination in preprint servers, conflict of interest disclosures, and the use of artificial intelligence tools. These elements strengthen editorial transparency and contribute to the proper contextualization of published objects, facilitating their interpretation and potential reuse.
Pensar Journal acknowledges that the application of FAIR principles may vary depending on the nature of the manuscript, the methodology employed, and the existence of data or materials suitable for sharing. In particular, the dimension of reusability may assume different contours in empirical, theoretical, bibliographic, documentary, or essay-based research. Nevertheless, the journal adopts, as an institutional guideline, the progressive and consistent promotion of FAIR principles in its editorial processes and publications.
Whenever the nature of the research allows, Pensar Journal encourages the responsible sharing of data, code, research instruments, supplementary documents, and other materials in reliable repositories, with appropriate description and clear indication of access and reuse conditions.
Through this approach, Pensar Journal reaffirms its commitment to strengthening Open Science, enhancing editorial quality, ensuring transparency in publication processes, and expanding the visibility, integration, and impact of the scientific production it disseminates.
