EDITORIAL NOTICE

2026-06-17
PUBLIC DECLARATION OF AN UNFILLED ISSUE AND CONTINUITY OF VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1

YUYAY: Strategies, Methodologies & Educational Didactics
ISSN: 2953-6685 | e-ISSN: 2953-6677

The Editorial Directorate and the Editorial and Scientific Board of YUYAY: Strategies, Methodologies & Educational Didactics, in fulfillment of their responsibilities regarding research integrity, editorial transparency, scientific quality, and the proper management of peer-review and publication processes, hereby inform the academic, scientific, and author communities of the following:

1. Background to the call for papers

On January 30, 2026, the journal published the call for papers for the thematic issue:

Education in the Algorithmic Era: Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Economies, Technical Sciences, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production

[Educación en la Era Algorítmica: Inteligencia Artificial, Economías del Conocimiento, Ciencias Técnicas y Geopolítica de la Producción del Saber]

The call proposed an analysis of education as a technological, economic, and geopolitical infrastructure of the twenty-first century, addressing the configuration of productive systems, knowledge sovereignty, technical education, data governance, and the transformations arising from artificial intelligence.

The issue was initially scheduled for publication on March 31, 2026.

2. Declaration of an unfilled issue

Following the completion of the submission, preliminary screening, document-verification, and editorial assessment stages, the Editorial Directorate and the Editorial and Scientific Board resolved to declare the issue scheduled for March 31, 2026, unfilled.

This decision was adopted because the journal was unable to consolidate a sufficient body of manuscripts that fully met the documentary, methodological, ethical, and scientific requirements established for publication.

The editorial process identified, among other matters:

a) incomplete submission files;

b) absent or insufficient declarations concerning originality, authorship, individual contributions, conflicts of interest, data availability, and the use of technological tools;

c) discrepancies between the documents declared by the authors and the files actually submitted;

d) weaknesses in methodological justification and in the traceability of the reported results;

e) nonexistent, incomplete, outdated, or unverifiable bibliographic references;

f) claims, data, or background information lacking sufficient documentary support;

g) inconsistencies among research objectives, methodology, results, and conclusions;

h) intensive, undisclosed, or insufficiently documented use of generative artificial intelligence systems; and

i) manuscripts in which the direct intellectual contribution, academic voice, or effective responsibility of the listed authors could not be established with sufficient clarity.

These documentary deficiencies and academic inconsistencies prevented the journal from guaranteeing the verifiability of the contents, responsible authorship, and the level of scientific quality required for publication.

3. Editorial position on the use of artificial intelligence

The journal acknowledges that artificial intelligence tools may be used as supporting resources for certain organizational, linguistic, analytical, or technical tasks. Their use does not, in itself, constitute an ethical violation or an automatic ground for rejection.

Nevertheless, in accordance with the position of the Committee on Publication Ethics, artificial intelligence tools cannot be recognized as authors because they are unable to assume responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, or legal status of a scholarly publication. Full responsibility for the manuscript remains with the human authors who sign and submit it to the journal (Committee on Publication Ethics [COPE], 2023).

Authors are therefore required to:

  • explicitly disclose the use of artificial intelligence;

  • identify the tool used and, where applicable, its version;

  • explain the specific purpose for which it was employed;

  • identify the sections or activities in which it was used;

  • verify the accuracy of all data, citations, and references generated or processed through such tools;

  • retain intellectual responsibility for the analysis, argumentation, and conclusions; and

  • guarantee that the submitted manuscript constitutes an original, verifiable, and genuinely human scholarly contribution.

Artificial intelligence may not replace the intellectual construction of research, fabricate sources, generate nonexistent evidence, or substitute for the methodological judgment of the authors.

This declaration is not based on an automatic percentage generated by artificial-intelligence detection software. The editorial decision is grounded in the combined examination of submission files, supporting documentation, source traceability, methodological coherence, and the authors’ ability to take responsibility for the submitted content.

COPE recommends that, when AI-generated content is suspected, journals communicate with authors in neutral terms, apply their publicly stated editorial policies, and request the necessary explanations or evidence before making individual determinations (COPE, n.d.).

4. Scope of the declaration

This declaration:

  • does not constitute a collective public allegation of fraud or research misconduct;

  • does not imply that all submitted manuscripts presented the same deficiencies;

  • does not authorize the disclosure of names, review reports, or confidential editorial records;

  • does not automatically invalidate manuscripts that may be substantially corrected;

  • does not constitute a sanction against the participating authors;

  • does not interrupt the journal’s scientific or editorial activity; and

  • does not alter the continuity of the annual volume.

Decisions concerning individual manuscripts will be communicated directly to their authors through the journal’s official channels.

Where academically appropriate, certain manuscripts may be corrected, completed, and resubmitted for evaluation. Any subsequent reconsideration will not imply automatic acceptance or the continuation of a previous decision, but rather the commencement or resumption of the editorial process under the journal’s current policies.

5. Continuity of Volume 6, Issue 1

The issue declared unfilled will not consume or modify the editorial numbering established for 2026.

Accordingly, the first issue effectively published during the year will retain the identification:

Volume 6, Issue 1

and will be published on:

June 30, 2026

The corresponding bibliographic identification will be:

YUYAY: Strategies, Methodologies & Educational Didactics, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–June 2026.

This measure preserves the journal’s bibliographic, archival, and editorial continuity. The publication scheduled for June 30, 2026, will not be treated as a special or second issue, but as the first effective issue of the volume corresponding to the 2026 editorial year.

6. Scientific coordination

Volume 6, Issue 1, scheduled for publication on June 30, 2026, will be coordinated by:

Dr. Javier Gonzalo Rodríguez Ruiz
Department of Economics
University Center for Economic and Administrative Sciences — CUCEA
University of Guadalajara, Mexico

The scientific coordination will work in conjunction with the Editorial Directorate, the Editorial and Scientific Board, and external peer reviewers, while respecting editorial independence, manuscript confidentiality, and the journal’s established evaluation procedures.

7. Strengthening of editorial procedures

In accordance with COPE’s core practices and principles of transparency, the journal will reinforce the following procedures:

  1. verification of documentary completeness before peer review;

  2. review of the authenticity and verifiability of references, data, and persistent identifiers;

  3. mandatory and detailed disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence;

  4. incorporation of specific authorship and contributorship declarations;

  5. verification of coherence among objectives, methodology, results, and conclusions;

  6. review of data availability, origin, and traceability;

  7. training for editors and reviewers on research integrity and artificial intelligence;

  8. individual and neutral communication in cases of potential noncompliance;

  9. protection of the confidentiality of authors and reviewers;

  10. establishment of a formal complaints and appeals procedure; and

  11. updating of the guidelines for authors, reviewers, and thematic-issue coordinators.

COPE establishes that journals should maintain clear and publicly available policies concerning authorship, contributorship, peer review, possible ethical concerns, complaints, and appeals. It also recommends that procedures for addressing possible misconduct be impartial, confidential, and adequately described on the journal’s institutional website (COPE Council, 2022).

8. Institutional commitment

Declaring an issue unfilled is an exceptional measure of editorial responsibility.

Publication frequency is an important institutional commitment, but it cannot take precedence over the integrity of the scientific record. Publishing material whose documentation, authorship, methodology, or traceability cannot be sufficiently verified would undermine the trust of readers, authors, reviewers, institutions, and academic indexing services.

The journal reaffirms that no technological tool can replace the critical responsibility of the researcher or the ethical obligation to answer for what one signs.

Science requires speed in order to engage with its time, but it also requires pause in order to verify its truth.

This declaration will be published on the journal’s official website and disseminated through its institutional channels.

Quito, Ecuador, June 17, 2026.

Editorial Directorate
Editorial and Scientific Board
YUYAY: Strategies, Methodologies & Educational Didactics

Institutional references

Committee on Publication Ethics. (2023, February 13). Authorship and AI tools. COPE.

Committee on Publication Ethics. (n.d.). Suspected AI-generated manuscripts. COPE.

COPE Council. (2022). Ethics toolkit for a successful editorial office: A COPE guide (Version 2). Committee on Publication Ethics. https://doi.org/10.24318/AkFpEBd1

Committee on Publication Ethics, Directory of Open Access Journals, Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, & World Association of Medical Editors. (2022). Principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12