About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Economía, Sociedad y Territorio (EST) is published three times a year (January-April, May-August, and September-December) by El Colegio Mexiquense A.C. in Mexico; it has as a purpose to publish works with an eminent academic nature, dealing with topics related to social sciences in the framework of regions and specific cities and it is open to various approaches and methodologies. EST has as an aim to timely publish significant scientific results in its action scope. The main thematic axes of the journal are:

Urban studies; regional studies; regional economy; territorial studies; human geography; metropolization; sustainable development

The content of the articles and reviews in each issue is the exclusive responsibility of the authors and is not necessarily related to the opinion of the editing institution. Works submitted to EST will have to be eminently academic in nature and strictly follow the guideline for authors.

Peer Review Process

On the reception of a text, it will be submitted to a previous revision by the Editorial Board, which will rule the thematic pertinence of the article. Once the Board determines the thematic suitability of the text and its fulfillment of the editorial requirements established in the normative regulations, two referees alien to the institution of the author(s) are appointed; they will be in charge of suggesting or not the publication of each article. The referees will be experts in the topic and their anonymousness, as well as that of the author(s), will be preserved at all times.

The appointed referees will anonymously rule to:

Publish the article after minor corrections are applied;
Condition the article once in-depth corrections are applied;
Reject the article

In order for an article to be accepted for its publication, it shall have at least two positive dictums. In case that an article has one positive dictum and another negative, it will be sent to a third referee who will define the result.

The results from the academic dictum process will be unappealable for all cases.

The documents can be resent to revision by the referees who thus ask up to three times; exceeding these revisions, the article will be demitted.

The author(s) will be given a thirty-day period to apply the indicated corrections.

Each issue will comprise the articles that at the closure have finalized the dictum process; a number will be assigned in the strict order in which they are approved by the referees to be published.

Publication Frequency

Once the article has successfully complied with the academic dictum process, it will be sent to the Unit of Editorial Support, in which proofreading and a through revision of the normalization of bibliographic citations will be carried out. Once this process concludes, the author(s) will be asked to sign a “contract of assignment of patrimonial rights”. Once the contract is duly signed, the text will be sent to the Design Area to be laid out and typeset and the author(s) will be informed about the prospective date for the publication of their contribution.

Open Access Policy

Economía, Sociedad y Territorio is a four-monthly Open Access publication edited by El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C. Its contents can be immediately, freely and gratuitously consulted.

Funding

Economía, Sociedad y Territorio is funded by El Colegio Mexiquense A.C., the publishing house, and the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) through the fund corresponding to the Index of Mexican Journals of Scientific and Technologic Research.

Sherpa/RoMeo

Economía, Sociedad y Territorio is registered in Sherpa/RoMeo as a green journal. With this initiative EST commits to accept articles that had circulated as pre-prints, this is to say, as versions that had not undergone academic review but which correspond to researches at initial stages: work documents, congress lectures, full-text lectures that appear in memoirs and degree theses, mainly. On the other side, this journal allows the author to disseminate the post-print in personal sites or repositories as long as Revista Economía, Sociedad y Territorio is correctly cited as the original source of the manuscript. It is worth clarifying that the journal privileges unpublished collaborations; because of this, the journal does not receive documents that have been sent to dictum or are currently undergoing revision by other publishing house, regardless of their nature.

Copyright note

The total or partial reproduction of the published material without the authorization of El Colegio Mexiquense A.C. is forbidden.

Publication ethics and malpractice statement

Responsibilities or behavior of the Editorial Board

The description of the peer review process is defined and disclosed by the Editorial Board so that the authors know which the evaluation criteria are. The Editorial Board will always be in good disposition to justify any controversy in the assessment process.

Responsibilities or behavior of the Editor

The Editor shall be responsible for any content of the journal. The editor shall endeavor to meet the needs of readers and authors; to constantly improve the journal; to secure the quality of the material to be published; to foster the academic and scientific standards. On the other side, the editor has to be willing to publish amendments, clarifications, retractions and apologies whenever necessary.
The decision of the editor to accept or reject a submitted manuscript must be entirely based on the relevance, originality, clarity and pertinence the article represents for the journal.
The editor commits to guarantee the confidentiality of the assessment process; the editor cannot reveal the identity of the authors to the referees; neither can the editor reveal the identity of the referees at any time.
The editor is responsible for deciding which articles are to be accepted by the Journal and the Editorial Board will definitely rule on the articles to be published.
The editor takes up full responsibility to duly inform the author about the current stage of the submitted manuscript along the editorial process, as well as the result of the assessment.
An editor shall assess the manuscripts and their intellectual contents with no distinctions by race, gender, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, ethnical background, nationality or political philosophy of the authors.
The editor and any editorial staff will not disclose any kind information on a submitted manuscript to anyone but the corresponding author, referees, potential referees or other editorial advisors.
All the unpublished materials disseminated in a submitted manuscript will not be used in personal researches of an editor without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained by means of the peer review will be confidential and they will not be used for personal gain. The editors must make fair and impartial decisions and guarantee a suitable and fair peer review.

Responsibilities of the authors

The authors shall guarantee that their manuscripts are the result of original work and that data have been ethically obtained. Moreover, they must guarantee that their works have not been previously published or have been sent to another publication. A manuscript will be considered previously published in any of the following situations:

1) When the full text has been published;

2) When extensive fragments of previously published materials are part of the text submitted to the journal;

3) These criteria refer to previous publications in an electronic or printed form and in any language.

To publish their works the authors must strictly follow the regulations for the publication of articles defined by the Editorial Board.
The authors will send the Journal an original of the article with no personal information (name, contact information, ascription, etc.) and excluding their name in the bibliographic references in which it appears.
The authors of reports on original researches must present an accurate description of the work performed, as well as an objective discussion of its importance. Underling data must be presented with precision in the article. A document shall contain sufficient detail and references so as to allow other people to use the work. Fraudulent or deliberately inaccurate declarations are unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
The authors have to verify that they have produced completely original works and if they have used the work and/or words by other people, these have to be clearly cited. Plagiarism in any form is non-ethical behavior and is unacceptable; thereby, any manuscript incurring in plagiarism will be discarded and will not be considered for publication.
An author shall not, in general, publish manuscripts that essentially describe the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal is unethical behavior and its publishing becomes unacceptable.
All sources have to be adequately recognized; the authors have to cite the any publication that had been influential for the nature of the submitted work. Information obtained privately, namely: in conversations, correspondence or discussions with third parties shall not be used but with the explicit written consent of the source.
Authorship shall be limited to those with a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the study. All those with significant contributions must appear as coauthors; the main author(s) must secure all the coauthors are listed in the article, and that everyone of them has seen and approved the final version of the document and have concurred on its submission for publication.
All the authors shall reveal in the manuscript any conflict of financial nature or of interest that might influence on the results or interpretation of the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project have to be revealed.[1]
When an author discovers an error or a significant inaccuracy in the published work, it is their duty to immediately notify the Director of the journal or Editorial Director and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

[1] More information on unacceptable unethical behavior in scientific publications can be found at the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Responsibilities of the referees

Referees are committed to notify any unethical behavior of the authors and point out any information that can be a reason to reject the manuscript. Besides, they shall commit to maintain every item of information related to the assessed articles confidential.
To review the works, the referees must have the guidelines to perform this task. Said guidelines must be provided by the editor and are to be considered while assessing.
Every selected referee must notify as soon as humanly possible the editor whether they are qualified to assess the research manuscript.
Any manuscript received to be assessed must be treated as a confidential document; it shall not be shown or discussed with other experts, except with the authorization of the editor.
Referees must be objective; any personal criticism to the author is inadequate. Referees shall express their standpoints with clarity and with valid arguments.
Every item of privileged information or the ideas obtained from the peer review are confidential and will not be used for personal gain.
The referees must not assess manuscripts in which they have conflict of interest.

Journal History

The Economía Sociedad y Territoriojournal is edited since 1997 by El Colegio Mexiquense A.C. It has been supported by those who have served as Presidents of this institution: Dr. María Teresa Jarquín Ortega and Dr. Alfonso Xavier Iracheta Cenecorta, Dr. Carlos Francísco Quintana Roldán, Dr. Edgar Alfonso Hernández, Dr. José Alejandro Vargas Castro and Dr. Victor Humberto Benítez Treviño. The journal has been directed by Dr. Carlos Félix Garrocho Rangel, Dr. Luis Jaime Sobrino Figueroa, Dr. Alicia Lindón Villoria, and very especially by Dr. Rosario Rogel Salazar, who during ten years managed to consolidate this editorial project. Later on, the journal was under the direction of Dr. Susana Medina Ciriaco. Since 2012 it is coordinated by M.A. Maira Yuritzi Becerril Tinoco who has contributed to the international positioning of the journal, managing to place it, in 2012, in Scimago Journal & Country Rank, in the 3^rd quartile (Q3) in the Geography Planning and Development area and in 2014 in Scielo Citation Index, a collection, which as from January 2014, is part of Thompson Reuters Web of Science.

In its trajectory, Revista Economía, Sociedad y Territorio (EST) has gradually consolidated as one of the most important dissemination means among the community of researchers interested in urban and regional studies, not only in Mexico, but also in Latin America as a whole. An instance of this is the variety of topics approached, and which are authored by academicians from various countries and institutions.

The progressive consolidation of this editorial body is noticed on the high quality of texts received in its editorial coordination with the intention of assessing their possible publication.

The continual postulation of texts to be assessed has made us considerably broaden our referee listing; not only in terms of quality, but particularly in geographic topics and spheres. Nowadays, we have support from more than 500 scholars who actively collaborate as referees; all of them ascribed to recognized institutions from different countries. It is them, because of their professional and disinterested work, who legitimate the process of scientific communication in which EST inserts.

Economia, Sociedad y Territorio has disseminated academic studies by researchers from European countries, namely: France, Italy, England, Germany; as well as from countries such as the United States, Canada and of course, Mexico. Later, the journal took up the scientific output from academic institutions of other nations, mainly the rest of Latin America, offering researchers communicational advances, particularly internet, which contributed to create the conditions to actually have a dialogue between peers.

Specifically, more than 400 research articles and reviews published in its history have allowed disseminating researches by about 700 different authors, from more than 100 academic institutions, from different countries.

For those who collaborate in the edition of the journal the challenge of offering not only a high-quality publication (which is guaranteed by means of minutely following the academic dictum process) is clear, but also to instrument all manner of mechanisms that enable the timely publication of the selected materials. Because of this, the use of Open Journal System (OJS)has been instrumented. In December 2014 the new website of the journal was presented; it required hard work in preserving, migrating and recovering the historic archive since 1997 to present; this way, as of January 2015, all the published articles are available in PDF, as well as HTML, an enhanced and interoperable format. The site also allows carrying out the editorial management process, a task that involves the participation of both authors and referees.

Economía, Sociedad y Territorio has managed to be accepted in a number of databases and indexation systems that, besides academic legitimation, guarantees visibility for the contents. EST belongs to the Index of Mexican Journals of Scientific and Technologic Research of Conacyt-Mexico. Additionally, it is indexed to Scopus, Sociological Abstracts (sa), Hispanic American Publish Index (hapi); Latindex catalog, Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe (Redalyc); Handbook of Latin American Studies (hlas); International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (icaap); Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO); Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); it is listed in CAB Abstracts; it is homologated in the National System of Indexation and Homologation of Specialized Journals (Publindex-COLCIENCIAS), Web Qualis-CAPES, Brazil and Scielo Citation Index.

However, we are aware that it is necessary to work to increase the visibility and to consolidate the international scope of EST; it is so what explains the strict observance of certain standards, as well as the care taken with the citation and bibliographic reference processes. To the extent that our journal obtains more indexations, the process of dissemination will be more effective; and in order to accomplish this, the strict adherence of the authors to collaboration guidelines is fundamental.