About the Journal

Focus and scope

Análisis Económico is a publication on economics whose objective is the dissemination, mainly at the national and Latin American level, of scientific articles that address different aspects of economic analysis, both from a theoretical and applied perspective. It is a forum open to the participation of researchers, academics and professionals in the various branches of economic sciences and their alternative approaches.

The journal considers for publication scientific research and review articles, unpublished, written in Spanish or English and that have not been simultaneously proposed for publication in other scientific journals.

In Análisis Económico no charge is made for the publication of the accepted article or for its receipt.

Análisis Económico is a journal that is published three times a year, in the months of January, May and September.

All articles are available in PDF format.

Peer review process

The works proposed for publication are submitted to the double-blind arbitration process by external reviewers, this is for the author the opinions must be anonymous and for the referees the author must be anonymous, after review by the Editorial Committee that the proposed work meets editorial criteria. The referees' comments are made known to the authors. The final decision is made by the Editorial Committee.

Open Access

Análisis Económico is a free open access journal, which means that both publications and access to its content are completely free, at no cost to authors and readers. The authors grant all users, for an unlimited period, the right to use, download, read, print, distribute or link the complete texts and use them for any other purpose as long as it is not for profit, with the condition of that the authors are given due credit.

Análisis Económico is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional License, CC-BY-NC-ND. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 

Ethical standards

Authors must indicate that the text is their own and that the intellectual property rights of third parties are respected. If material that is not the property of the authors is used, it is their responsibility to ensure that they have authorization for the use, reproduction and publication of tables, graphs, maps, diagrams, etc.

Articles must contain sufficient detail and references to allow the content to be replicated or refuted. Likewise, each article must have programs and data that allow the results to be replicated. If this is not possible, the author must explain the reason for not providing this information.

Likewise, the Análisis Económico journal declares its adherence to the standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Anti-plagiarism policy

Análisis Económico combats plagiarism and fraudulent practices. The journal uses iThenticate to detect plagiarism in the publication proposals it receives as the first filter. Any document that commits plagiarism will be rejected.

Copyright Policy

The authors grant Análisis Económico exclusively the right to the first publication and always preserve the moral and economic rights of their texts, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons Recognition License that allows third parties to share the work whenever indicate its author and its first publication in this journal.

Authors may adopt other licensing agreements to share their works published in the journal through their personal website, institutional repository or on networks that are of interest to them. Authors will have to provide the DOI of the document as a complete URL.

Persistent identifier policy

The issues and articles published by Análisis Económico from 2018 until now have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) that guarantees permanent access to the articles, thanks to the registration, tracking and constant monitoring of metadata. To ensure its functionality, the DOI is always displayed as a complete URL link, both in the presentation of articles and issues of the journal, as well as in PDF files.

The ORCID iD is mandatory for author registration. This is an identifier that distinguishes authors from other researchers, facilitates the recognition of their contributions and reduces the possibilities of errors in their registration. This identifier is requested by the authors themselves through the ORCID website, a global non-profit organization that promotes the transparent exchange of information.

Internal operating rules

  1. Introduction

Análisis Económico is a journal that publishes three issues a year, recognized and with tradition in the field of academic economics journals in Mexico and abroad, particularly in Latin America. It publishes articles of general economic interest on a wide range of topics in both Spanish and English.

In the more than four decades of existence of Análisis Económico, the authors of the articles that appear in it have been protagonists of the analysis of national and international economic developments.

Something that distinguishes the journal is the wide variety of topics discussed in its pages: financial, industrial organization, empirical analysis (econometrics), sectoral analysis, competitiveness, economic growth and development, unemployment, inflation, international trade, security social, pensions, poverty, institutional economics, just to mention a few. These topics are also addressed under different theoretical approaches that enrich the discussion and exchange of ideas.

Análisis Económico is part of the following indices: Econlit, Latindex, Redalyc, SciELO México. Likewise, it is included in the Classification System of Mexican Science and Technology Journals of the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology (CONAHCYT).

 

  1. Objectives

Análisis Económico has three fundamental objectives:

  1. i) Contribute to the exchange of ideas between members of the national and international academic community dedicated to analyzing issues of the national economy as well as the world economy with emphasis on the problems of the Latin American region.

 

  1. ii) Provide a forum so that the Economics professors of the Metropolitan Autonomous University can express their ideas in a rigorous manner and make them known among their peers in the national and international academic community dedicated to economic issues.

 

iii) Support undergraduate and postgraduate students in economics at the Metropolitan Autonomous University as well as other higher education institutions, so that their training as economists is more complete by having access to recent research articles.

 

  1. Content and structure

The journal will publish two types of scientific works:

  1. i) Research articles, in which rigorous unpublished analyzes are presented on a wide variety of economic topics related to the Mexican economy or the world economy with emphasis on the problems of economic development.
  2. ii) Review articles. The review article is considered a detailed, selective and critical study that integrates essential information in a unitary and overall perspective. It is a type of scientific article that, without being original, compiles the most relevant information on a specific topic. Its purpose is to examine the published literature and place it in a certain perspective.

 

  1. The Análisis Económico Organization

The Análsisi Económico organization is a charge of:

The Editorial Committee

Two associate editors

The responsible director-editor

 

On the integration and functions of the Editorial Committee

The Editorial Committee will be made up of twelve members, three of whom will be the responsible director-editor and the associate editors. At least fifty percent of the members will be external to the Metropolitan Autonomous University. It will be ensured that, as far as possible, in the members external to the Metropolitan Autonomous University there is a predominance of academics whose institution of affiliation is outside of Mexico.

        The functions of the Editorial Committee are:

  1. Approve the publication of each issue of Análisis Económico and accompany the responsible Director-Editor and the associate editors in the editorial process as a whole. An issue of Análisis Económico will be considered approved by the Editorial Committee if at least the simple majority of its members approve it, except for the responsible director-editor and associate editors. In this simple majority there must be at least two favorable opinions from members external to the Metropolitan Autonomous University.
  2. Meet as many times as necessary to support the proper running of the journal, although these meetings do not necessarily require the physical presence of the members. The electronic means available to the University will be used for the management of information and the approval of each issue of Análisis Económico.
  3. Propose new referees.
  4. Propose ways to improve the quality of the journal.

Of the functions of the Director of Análisis Económico

  1. He oversees the judging process of each article submitted for possible publication. To carry out this task he has the support of the journal's editorial technician. The ruling process must be subject to the following procedure.
  2. a) From the database of reviewers, two reviewers will be chosen for each article. To do this, the issue raised by the authors will be addressed and the referees will be chosen based on said issues.
  3. b) The ruling process will be double blind. For the author, the opinions must be anonymous and for the reviewers, the author must be anonymous. Each article that is published in Análisis Económico must have at least two favorable opinions. If there is a tie, that is, one favorable opinion and one unfavorable opinion, the article will be submitted to a third opinion. If the opinions are favorable but conditional, the author must attend to the suggestions of the reviewer in the opinion of the editor of the journal and his article will not be published until he has attended to such suggestions.
  4. He is responsible for issuing the approval certificates for publication as well as the publication certificates of articles. Likewise, he is responsible for notifying the author when his article has been rejected.
  5. He will promote and carry out the necessary procedures for the production, distribution, and dissemination of Análisis Económico.
  6. It must comply with the provisions of the operational policies on editorial production that include evaluation and promotion mechanisms, regarding editing, publication, dissemination and distribution, the operational policies for the editorial production of the Azcapotzalco Campus and the editorial guidelines of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Metropolitan Autonomous University.

Of the functions of the Associate Editors of Análisis Económico

  1. |They are responsible for supervising the work necessary for the review, correction, and final edition of the Análisis Económico, including addressing the suggestions of the reviewers when there are conditional opinions.
  2. They are responsible for ensuring the editorial quality of Análisis Económico.
  3. Support the Director-Editor responsible in all aspects related to the edition of Análisis Económico.

Any consideration not provided for in these guidelines must be resolved by the Editorial Committee.

 

Sponsors

  • Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana