Editorial Governance

Editorial Governance

The editorial governance of Ensayos Revista de Economía is structured around distinct roles and bodies responsible for the journal's scientific, editorial, technical, and strategic management. This framework ensures academic quality, process transparency, adherence to ethical standards, and editorial sustainability.

 

1. Editor-in-Chief

The general function of the Editor-in-Chief is to direct and oversee the editorial, scientific, and strategic processes of the journal comprehensively.

Specific functions include:

    • Defining, updating, and overseeing the journal’s editorial policy.
    • Coordinating the process of manuscript reception, evaluation, assessment, and publication.
    • Conducting the preliminary editorial evaluation of received manuscripts.
    • Appointing reviewers and, where applicable, associate editors.
    • Issuing final editorial decisions regarding acceptance, rejection, or requests for revisions.
    • Ensuring compliance with the journal’s ethical, scientific, and editorial standards.
    • Overseeing the publication's periodicity, continuity, and editorial quality.
    • Coordinating communication among authors, reviewers, and the editorial team.
    • Promoting the journal’s visibility, indexing, and internationalization.
    • Representing the journal institutionally before academic bodies, indexing systems, scientific networks, and related entities.

 

2. Editorial Assistant

The general function of the Editorial Assistant is to provide technical, operational, and administrative support for the journal’s editorial management.

Specific functions include:

    • Verifying initial compliance with author guidelines.
    • Managing the editorial workflow on the manuscript management platform.
    • Following up on communications with authors, reviewers, and the editorial team.
    • Supporting the organization of issues, editorial calendars, and publication processes.
    • Verifying metadata, files, formats, and supplementary documentation.
    • Overseeing formal and administrative aspects of the editorial process.
    • Supporting proofreading, markup, electronic publication, and content updating processes.
    • Keeping the journal’s editorial information up to date on its official channels.

 

3. Associate Editors

The general function of the Associate Editors is to support the scientific and editorial evaluation of manuscripts in the journal's specific subject areas.

Specific functions include:

    • Managing manuscripts in their area of expertise.
    • Assessing the topical, scientific, and methodological relevance of assigned manuscripts.
    • Proposing specialized reviewers.
    • Monitoring the peer-review process.
    • Issuing editorial recommendations to the Executive Editor.
    • Contributing to the journal's academic and thematic strengthening.
    • Promoting good ethical and scientific practices during the evaluation process.

 

4. Editorial Board

The Editorial Board's primary function is to contribute to the journal's editorial, academic, and strategic development.

Specific functions include:

    • Advising on editorial policies, scientific guidelines, and quality criteria.
    • Supporting the definition of the journal’s scope, aims, and thematic orientation.
    • Contributing to the strengthening of the journal’s scientific and editorial quality.
    • Collaborating on strategies for visibility, indexing, and internationalization.
    • Suggesting relevant reviewers, authors, topics, and research lines.
    • Supporting the journal's academic dissemination across networks, institutions, and scientific communities.

 

5. Scientific Advisory Board

The general function of the Scientific Advisory Board is to provide specialized scientific advice and enhance the journal’s national and international academic recognition.

Specific functions include:

    • Advising on trends, debates, and research priorities within the journal’s disciplinary field.
    • Contributing to the strengthening of the journal’s scientific quality, thematic relevance, and academic rigor.
    • Supporting evaluation, peer review, or specialized consultation processes when required.
    • Promoting academic linkages at the national and international levels.
    • Supporting the journal’s scientific and international positioning.
    • Contributing to the consolidation of academic, authorial, and scientific collaboration networks.

 

6. Technical Committee

The general function of the Technical Committee is to ensure the journal's technical, technological, documentary, and interoperability support.

Specific functions include:

    • Administering and supervising the journal’s editorial and technological platform.
    • Verifying the integrity, availability, and security of published content.
    • Overseeing metadata interoperability with indexing systems, harvesters, repositories, and scientific information services.
    • Managing digital preservation processes, content backup, and technological continuity.
    • Supporting electronic publication, DOI assignment, XML-JATS markup, and digital format generation.
    • Overseeing technical aspects of accessibility, usability, navigation, and content display.
    • Keeping the technical components necessary for the journal’s editorial operation up to date.