WeEditors.org: towards the visibility and sustainability of open access journals

Díaz-Chieng L.Y.; Peralta Y.A.A.; Artigas W.; Cabrera G.B. · Palabra Clave (La Plata) (2023) · DOI: 10.24215/18539912e191

Resumen

In recent years, the creation of socio-scientific networks has been the norm, due to the great impulse that grouping together and developing activities together to achieve a common goal can mean. In 2020, the WeEditors.org network was created, which was born from the initiative of three editors of scientific journals who wanted to form a group where they bet on professionalization and promote Ibero-American journals, based on the idea that by making a group in where experienced journals and new journals converge, it could serve to transfer knowledge and achieve, in short, the improvement of processes in the search for a better positioning of Latin American science. The objective of this article is to characterize the journals of the WeEditors.org network for the drawing up of strategies in pursuit of the strengthening and advancement of the network. An observational descriptive study was carried out during the period between the months of May-June 2022, as the primary source the Excel database was used, which is part of the registry of the network, which had a total of 98 journals (N = 98) at that time. The realization of this study collected interesting and sufficient information for the design and implementation of future activities to be developed on practical training, implementation of continuous publication, Open Science, use of CRediT taxonomy and ORCID code. The systematization of this type of characterization study is vital for drawing up the relevant strategies and making the comparisons for the analysis of the evolution of the network. There are still ways to go, but the future looks bright.