Focus and scope

Económicas CUC, identified with e-ISSN: 2382-3860 / ISSN: 0120-3932, is a serialized, scientific, electronic and refereed journal, of continuous publication with packaging in biannual issues, which receives and disseminates original, unpublished and innovative contributions from researchers in the areas of economic, administrative and accounting sciences within the framework of social sciences and from a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary  and transdisciplinary vision that contribute to the generation of new knowledge. Económicas CUC provides a specialized academic space for dissemination of research results of the highest quality that receives articles in Spanish and English, focused on the following fields of knowledge: 

  • Sustainable development and social responsibility
  • Innovation, global competitiveness and productivity
  • Organizational management
  • Economics of social sectors, new ways of doing economics
  • Finance, accounting and auditing.

Económicas CUC has been consolidating as a means of dissemination that publishes scientific and technological research articles, reviews, reflections, case studies and letters to the editor, proposed by researchers in the journal's topics, including humanistic versions of the processes. Its complete collection is available through open access on its web page.

Económicas CUC frames its procedures in a strict peer review process in a double-blind format as set forth by ELSEVIER, does not accept papers that have been previously published, submitted simultaneously to other journals, that present redundant data or information or any indication of malpractice in the research work, and rigorously complies with the provisions of the COPE to which we are attached: Ethical oversight, also, ELSEVIER: Publishing Ethics Resource Kit for editors (PERK) and the Singapore Declaration on Research Integrity, where relevant in the article, authors should explain the procedures followed in the research to ensure compliance with the principles and ethical standards Declaration of Helsinki of the 1975. Such guidelines are expanded in the POLICY section of ETHICS AND TREATMENT OF MALPRACTICE.

The editors, the Editorial and/or Scientific Committee of Económicas CUC, the Universidad de la Costa and EDUCOSTA are not responsible for the opinions expressed by the authors. In turn, authors must strictly comply with the ethical policies and editorial standards for the publication of their work. 

Económicas CUC reserves the rights of printing, total or partial reproduction of the material, as well as the right of acceptance or rejection of the corresponding article. It also reserves the right to make any editorial modification it deems convenient to obtain a publication with the highest possible editorial quality and readability. 

On academic inbreeding 

In order to comply with international standards for high-impact journals, Económicas CUC may publish up to 10% per year of manuscripts and authors belonging to the publishing institution, or related to research projects led by academics from the same institution. 

This percentage is calculated on the basis of the total number of authors in the journal for each volume. Once this percentage has been reached, the manuscripts will be included in a bank of articles for possible selection in subsequent issues in chronological order according to the date of acceptance. 

Likewise, in order to avoid inbreeding among authors from outside the publishing institution and to avoid bad practices in scientific publication, as well as to promote open access to knowledge and the principle of transparency in editorial matters, all authors -regardless of their origin- must wait at least one semester to resubmit a manuscript for possible publication; the above, with the exception of "Letters to the Editor" due to their special nature.