ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías

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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías is an international, multidisciplinary, and open-access scientific journal. As of 2025, it publishes original, peer-reviewed contributions both in English and Spanish, across various fields, including exact, biological, and environmental sciences, as well as engineering and multidisciplinary research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Previously, the journal organized its content into three sections: Section A – Exact Sciences, Section B – Life Sciences,and Section C – Engineering.

Before submission, authors must ensure that their manuscript aligns with the aims and scope of the journal.

ISSNe: 2528-7788

ISSN: 1390-5384 

Editorial: USFQ PRESS

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Announcements

  • 2025-12-03

    Submission Template Update

    ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías has updated its submission template to strengthen our commitment to open science and academic integrity.
    The new version includes a Data Availability Statement and a Generative AI Use Declaration.
    The template is now available in the Journal Guidelines section.

Current Issue

Volume 17, No. 2

DOI:https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i2

Published December 15, 2025

Full Issue

Editorial

  1. Mateo Dávila-Játiva

    An Act of Resistance: The Role of Local Journals

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.4072

Articles

  1. Paulina Quirola Amores, Pablo Espinosa, Nelson Cevallos, Enrique Terán

    Drug resistance profiles in patients attending to an HIV clinic in Quito: a pilot study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i2.3298

  2. Pablo Josue Rojas Yepes, Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández, Oscar Carrillo, Frédéric Le Mouël

    Towards a Definition of Computing Continuum

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i2.3697

  3. Enea Mancellari, Ali Osman Topal, Franck Leprévost

    PoI+NBU: A Feasibility study in Generating High-Resolution Adversarial Images with a Black Box Evolutional Algorithm based Attack

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.vi.3699

  4. Jonathan Javier Sayavedra Delgado, Estefanía Haro-Viteri, Marielisa Bravo Cordero, José Álvarez-Barreto

    Development of a proposal for the production of spirulina powder applying circular economy principles for industrialization.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3739

  5. Liliana Atencio Solano, Emiro Suarez Paternina, José Jaime Tapia Coronado, Yacerney Paternina Paternina, Wilson Barragan Hernández, Lorena Mestra Vargas

    Effect of corn and cassava silage on the economic and productive performance of hair creole sheep (Ovis aries)

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.vi.3748

  6. Alberto Macancela-Herrera, Pedro X Astudillo, Byron Ortega-Pillajo

    Validation of the empirical method for obtaining wood density of high Andean species

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3775

  7. Jonnathan Darío Santos, Luis Córdova Narváez, José Quichimbo

    Mechanical characterization of mode I fracture toughnessin multidirectional printed continuous fiber laminates.: Investigation of fracture toughness in multidirectionallaminated composites

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3806

  8. Alonso Cartuche, Nikolay Aguirre, Roberth Yaguana, Roberto Bustillos, Vinicio Alvarado, Max Encalada, Josselyn Balcazar

    Photosynthetic organisms and water quality in Amazonian rivers, case study Yacuambi, Zamora Chinchipe

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3835

Review

  1. Edwars Naranjo, Inés Hernández Guerra, Lourdes Orejuela-Escobar

    Biopolymers and Nanotechnology: eco-friendly and sustainable alternative in Enhanced Oil Recovery

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.v17i2.3424

  2. Rolando Calero, Herrera Brunnet

    From waste to biopolymers: anaerobic fermentation as a sustainable pathway for polyhydroxyalkanoates production

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3678

  3. Raymond Joseph, Viviane Kopp da Luz, Amanda Valentini Baseggio, Adriana Pires Soares Bresolin, Antonio Costa De Oliveira

    Induction mutation: an alternative for global food security

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3732

Communications

  1. Elias Viteri-Basso, Johannes Ramirez Kastdalen, Jorge Carrión-Tacuri

    Even ferals: First predation record of the Galápagos Hawk Buteo galapagoensis (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae), on a feral cat Felis catus (Carnivora: Felidae).

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3877

  2. Gabriel Trueba

    The real origin of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.18272/aci.3892