Publisher

Universidad Central del Ecuador

Institute of Economic Research

Faculty of Economic Sciences

ISSN (print): 2697-3332 / ISSN (online): 2697-3340

Definition, focus and, scope

Revista Economía is a biannual publication of the Institute of Economic Research (IIE) of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE).

The first issue of Revista Economía, when the School of Economics was attached to the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences of the UCE, appeared in May 1951, the same year as the foundation of the Higher Institute for Research and Postgraduate Studies. When the Faculty of Economic Sciences was created in 1951, the magazine kept its validity, today in charge of the Institute of Economic Research (IIE).

Revista Economía pursues a plural and diverse thought in the economy and in the social sciences to respond with alternative and critical voices to the problems and challenges of Latin American society.

The main objective of Revista Economía is to be an editorial space for meeting and dialogue between researchers and academics in the field of social sciences, to develop proposals and emerging alternative models; in addition to promoting and disseminating the plural and diverse economic thought of the UCE —as well as of researchers and academics outside the institution, national and international—, which includes critical voices from the economy and the social sciences related to it.

The addressees of the journal are people, organizations and, institutions of the public or private sector that are linked in the work of the critical economy in Latin America.

It should be noted that at least 75% of the content of Revista Economía has the character of original research within the scientific and academic fields.

Peer review process

The articles sent to Revista Economía will be subject to a review process that has the following phases:

1. Articles sent that comply with the formal requirements indicated in the publication regulations of Revista Economía are considered received and said receipt is communicated to the authors by mail. This notice is different from the one generated automatically by the paper submission system.
2. The articles received are subjected to an initial evaluation that will assess the thematic relevance, textual adequacy, and quality of the text. This prior evaluation is in charge of the editor of the dossier, in the case of the works sent to that section, or of a member of the Editorial Team in the case of the remaining sections. The decision of whether or not an article is sent for blind peer review is informed by email to the authors.
3. If the article has been valued positively, it goes through an arbitration process under the modality of blind peer review. This process consists of sending the paper to at least two academic and anonymous reviewers, people external to the publishing institution (UCE), and to the Editorial Board. Peer readers are experts or researchers related to the topic addressed in the articles.
4. Readers, for their recommendation, handle criteria such as relevance, originality, relevance, contribution to the investigated topic, theoretical solvency, critical or argumentative apparatus, methodology, information management, final considerations or conclusions, references, and clarity of the exposition.
5. Based on the foregoing, the blind peers decide whether the article is: a) publishable without modifications or with minor modifications; b) only publishable with major modifications; c) is not publishable even if major modifications are made.
6. In case of discrepancies in the results of the evaluations, the paper is sent to a third evaluator, whose opinion defines the publication or not of the work.
7. The results of the arbitration process are always final.
8. The article selection process takes between four and six months.

Evaluation form

• Is there a problem, question or hypothesis to analyze?
• Is the problem, question or hypothesis posed clear
• Is the argument used clear?
• Is an answer given to the problem, question or hypothesis posed?
• Is the development of the article orderly and coherent?
• Is the style used clear and of quality?
• Is there a grammatical structure that allows the text to be understood?
• Is the use of the technical terms of the topic being discussed correct?
• Is it consistent with the bibliography used?
• Is the bibliography relevant?
• Is it correctly cited?

Major comments

Your analysis must respond to an objective, impartial, constructive and systematic evaluation. Please state any criticism using respectful language and provide general clarifications and specific examples. Major comments may refer to aspects such as the academic importance of the article; theoretical solvency. the management of empirical information; the (in)appropriate use of existing bibliography; the structure and order of exposition; the general style of writing, etc.

Minor comments

Minor comments may refer to aspects such as problematic formulations, inconsistencies between references in the manuscript and the bibliography, writing style or other specific formal aspects.

Check one of the following options based on your recommendation regarding the publishability of the article:

• The manuscript is publishable without modifications or with minor modifications.
• The manuscript is only publishable with major modifications.
• The manuscript is not publishable even if major modifications are made.

Open access policy

The contents of Revista Economía are open access, so that the public can have research at their disposal and, thus, contribute to a much broader global exchange of knowledge. In this line, the readers of Revista Economía can read, download, quote, socialize, print, search or link the full texts of the works in this publication.

Similarly, being open access, this journal does not charge any fee for sending, processing and, if applicable, publication of the academic papers submitted.

Revista Economía is a signatory to the Declaration of San Francisco (DORA) on scientific evaluation through its Editorial Director.

Economy Magazine under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license.

The authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

1. The authors retain the copyright and assign to Revista Economía the right of the first publication, with the work registered under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, which enables third parties to redistribute, commercial or non-commercial, of what has been published as long as the article circulates completely and without changes.
2. Authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the distribution of the article published in this journal (for example, add it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly and clearly specify that the article was published for the first time. once in Revista Economía. In case of reproduction, a note similar to the one presented below must be included: This text was originally published in the Revista Economía No.…, volume…, number of pages, year of publication.
3. Authors are suggested to publish their work on the internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages) of the final version published by Revista Economía since this can lead to greater and faster dissemination of the published article.

Adoption of the code of ethics

Reviewers will adhere to the “COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers” (COPE, 2013), in order to comply with ethical aspects of the peer-review process.

In addition, Revista Economía adheres to the guidelines of the Code of Ethics of the Central University of Ecuador established in 2019 and is available here.

During the entire editorial process, the journal will ensure that both editors, peer reviewers, and authors abide by the guidelines and good practices established by these codes.

Interoperability

Originality verification policy

All works received by Revista Economía go through the Urkund originality verification system, with the aim of initially determining cases of plagiarism.

This program compares each document with all the webs available on the world wide web and generates a report that allows knowing the originality of the articles received in the journal. Texts with a high percentage of similarity with other documents published or available online will be rejected.

All articles submitted must be original and unpublished and must not be simultaneously submitted in other journals or editorial bodies.

Privacy statement

All personal information provided by blind peers and authors will be used exclusively for the purposes established in Revista Economía (for example, sending copies) and will not be provided to third parties.

Digital preservation policy

The contents of Revista Economía have the digital preservation system enabled in LOCKSS through OJS. In addition, the Central University of Ecuador has a server where its contents are deposited, and which management is covered by the Information Security Policy of the Directorate of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DTIC).

Publication frequency

Revista Economía is a biannual magazine with two issues a year, published in May and November.