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ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Basic Information


Revista de Ciencias Económicas ISSN DIGITAL 2215-3489)

The Journal of Economic Sciences is published semiannually and operates under the continuous publication modality.

Focus and Scope

The Revista de Ciencias Económicas is published every six months and operates under the continuous publication modality. This means that articles are published as soon as the review and editing process is completed. The first issue of the year covers the period from January 1 to June 30, while the second runs from July 1 to December 31.

Its objective is to disseminate the contributions of research developed by national and international academics, serving as a means of communication between specialists in the scientific community, so as to generate a dialogue between peers located in different latitudes, on knowledge in the area of ​​economic sciences.

Post Types

RCE publica artículos de investigación y notas técnicas de personas investigadoras nacionales e internacionales, en idioma español o inglés.

Subject areas

It covers the areas of Economics, Business Administration, Statistics and Public Administration. The Journal is published online.

The Journal of Economic Sciences promotes access to scientific research, as it has no publication fees. Articles can be read or downloaded free of charge and immediately after their respective publication.

Editorial process of articles

All manuscripts received by RCE are subjected to a double-blind peer review process with national and international peers external to the journal, which guarantees impartiality in the evaluation of the articles. The total duration of the evaluation process of the manuscripts, from receipt to acceptance, covers about 12 months, distributed as follows: a) the editorial review and peer review, takes six months and b) the final opinion, style corrections, layout and publication, takes another six months approximately.

The articles submitted to RCE follow the following process:

Editorial review

* After receiving the manuscript, the editorial review begins, where it is assessed whether the document falls within one of the following categories: research articles and technical notes.

* It is verified whether the document complies with the requirements established in the journal's standards and the clarity of the contribution to knowledge is evaluated, as well as the presentation and writing of the ideas.

* The document is checked for signs of plagiarism using the Turnitin service.

* In conjunction with the director, the works that are rejected ad portas and those that are sent for peer review are selected, according to rigorous formal and content criteria, with the expectation that there is an original contribution to the better understanding of the phenomenon being analyzed or to the improvement of the discipline relevant to said study.

Double-blind peer review

* The manuscript is reviewed by two or three evaluators external to the journal, who may be national or international peers. The peer review is double-blind, meaning that the identities of the reviewers and authors remain anonymous.

* The evaluators are asked to submit the review within the following 15 calendar days, indicating one of the following options: 1. Approved, 2. Approved (if changes are incorporated), 3. Revise and resubmit, 4. Rejected.

* If the evaluations indicate Approved (if the changes are incorporated), these are sent to the authors, who will have a period of no more than 30 days to send a response or a revised version of the manuscript; on the other hand, if any of the evaluations indicate Revise and resubmit, the final decision will be given by the director considering the option of rejecting the document with the possibility of sending it again.

* In view of the respective evaluations, the director of the journal or the Editorial Board will decide whether to accept or reject the publication of the article in the Journal, communicating this decision to the authors.

Open access policy

The Journal of Economic Sciences publishes original research articles by national and international academics, serving as a means of communication between specialists in the scientific community. In order to maximize the visibility and impact of its articles, the journal adheres to the following open access and reuse policy, which allows the entire academic community and the general public to freely access, share and reuse knowledge:

1. Access and Cost: The Revista de Ciencias Económicas does not charge authors for the processing or publication of their works. Readers are free to access, read, download, store, print, search, index and link the full texts without incurring any expense.

2. Property Rights: Authors will retain the property rights of their works. Publishing in the Revista de Ciencias Económicas does not imply a transfer of these rights to the University of Costa Rica.

3. Reuse: The Revista de Ciencias Económicas allows the distribution of articles in their pre-print, post-print and final versions. The final version of the article, once published, is distributed under the Creative Commons 3.0 license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Costa Rica). Third parties may reuse these articles without requiring explicit permission from the publisher or the author, as long as:
* It is not for commercial purposes.
* No derivative works are created from the original.
* The source and authorship are properly cited.

4. License: The articles are published under the Creative Commons 3.0 license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Costa Rica). To learn in detail the conditions and restrictions of this license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cr/deed.es

5. References: Following the guidelines of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), The reference lists of the articles are available under the Creative Commons public domain dedication (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). More details available at: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.es

La abreviatura de su título es
Rev. Cienc. Econom., que debe ser usado en bibliografías, notas al pié de página, leyendas y referencias bibliográficas.

Information Services


The articles published in Rev. Cienc. Econom. are indexed or summarized by:

Indexings:


SciELO (Scientic Electronic Library Online)

UCRIndex

Sherpa/Romeo

EconPapers

Latindex

Dialnet

EcoLit

ROAD

Sudo

Jisc

RePec

DOAJ

MIAR

BIBLAT

CLASE

Copyright


1. License: The articles are published under the Creative Commons 3.0 license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Costa Rica). To learn in detail the conditions and restrictions of this license, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cr/deed.es

2. References: Following the guidelines of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), The reference lists of the articles are available under the Creative Commons public domain dedication (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). More details available at: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.es


Sponsors


It was thanks to the initiative of the College of Graduates in Economic Sciences and the Institute of Research in Economic Sciences of the University of Costa Rica, as well as with the collaboration and financial support of the Central Bank of Costa Rica that the first journal CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS was published in September 1981.

https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/economicas/

 

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11501-2060. Universidad de Costa Rica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas,
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, San José, Costa Rica
LUIS.HALL@ucr.ac.cr