The Journal, which came into being at Yachay Tech, was accepted into the most important database of indexed journals worldwide.

Bionatura Journal, focused on Life Sciences, was accepted into Scopus, the most important bibliographical database of scientific papers and journals worldwide.

Bionatura was born in 2016, under the guidance of Dr. Nelson Santiago Vispo, professor/researcher of the School of Biological Sciences and Engineering of Yachay Tech. Santiago Vispo, with over 20 years of experience in scientific publishing, brought together other universities and institutions, national and foreign, to participate in this project.

The Journal covers topics that include: Biotechnology, Immunology, Biochemistry, Biomedical, Clinical Trials, among others. At the moment, Bionatura has the participation of the following institutions: Universidad Católica de Oriente (Colombia), Universidad Católica, Universidad Yachay Tech and Clinicalbiotec (Ecuador), and Centro de Biotecnología y Biomedicina (Chile).

In addition, Bionatura has a very well-known editorial group that includes researchers from universities like University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), University of Montreal (Canada), Universidad de Concepción (Chile), Frauenhofer Institut (Germany), Instituto de investigación biomédica La Paz (Spain), Clemson University (USA), Universidad Central (Ecuador), Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), among others. As the editorial team is diverse and international, Bionatura receives manuscripts from researchers around the world.

In order to enter Scopus, Bionatura had to meet rigorous parameters that were thoroughly reviewed by an Evaluation Board. Some of these requirements included: to have two years of having been created; academic contribution to the field of research; to possess peer reviewed content, and access to their review process; to have relevant content focused on an international audience, that is, that the publications have their abstracts and titles in English. This process is conducted every year to ensure rigorousness and excellence. The Evaluation Board highlighted as one of the qualities of the journal: their strong editorial team, the rigorousness of the evaluation and their website (www.revistabionatura.com). Bionatura publications will start being uploaded to Scopus (www.scopus.com) within the next three months.

For Yachay Tech, the importance of Bionatura being part of Scopus lies on the fact that by being part of the most important database worldwide, its impact index, or H index, can increase considerably, allowing it to gain more visibility, reputation and access to a global audience of researchers and experts.

This acceptance, aside from being an input to the scientific community of Ecuador, embodies a great achievement for Yachay Tech, as it is the first indexed journal of the University, which is also a factor for the accreditation process of the University before the Higher Education Quality Assurance Council (CACES, in Spanish), and is proof of the constant efforts by the University to achieve excellence in research, teaching and community engagement.

Bionatura makes four publications per year, in both printed and digital editions. Since its creation in 2016 to this date, it has added up a total of 15 editions. (LMC)