Editorial.
| Autor | Castaneda-Rodriuez, Victor Mauricio |
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The purpose of this editorial --prepared by Professor Juanita Villaveces, dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the National University of Colombia (Bogota campus), Alvaro Zerda, Professor and former dean of the same body, and myself, as director and editor-in-chief of Innovar journal is to discuss the role of the publications of this faculty, and particularly this journal, as a means of dissemination and development of economic and administrative thought in our country, as a way to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of our faculty.
Traditionally, academic journals emerge from the intentions of an academic community. This is our case, since Innovar was an initiative by professors of an academic department aimed at disseminating their scholarly work and insights on management sciences. Over the years, changes in the measurement and classification systems of academic journals, as well as the search for greater transparency and reliability in the contents published, have limited the publication of works written by academics affiliated to the sponsoring institutions (i.e., editorial inbreeding control). This suggests that the continuity of a publication as a means for the dissemination of the progress and developments in a disciplinary field partly depends on its recognition and consolidation among target audiences, so that external academics and researchers become interested in submitting their articles for publication. The foregoing is an arument to indicate that the recognition of journals such as Cuadernos de Economia (created in 1979) and Innovar (in 1991) has been essential for their permanence for over 40 and 30 years of continuous publication, respectively. In its early days, Innovar was the channel that circulated the works of professors such as Bernardo Parra, the late Juan Abel Lara, and Eugenio Giovenardi, which addressed issues such as the financial situation and business strategy of recognized companies in the Colombian context, including Avianca and Fabricato (Parra, 1991; Parra, 1995), or the debate between positive and normative approaches in accounting research (Lara, 1991b), as well as some other contributions that demanded multidisciplinary perspectives in an attempt to answer questions that remain unsolved, such as, for example, why are farmers poor? (Giovenardi, 1992).
Besides showing the relevance of the research conducted in the Department of Administration, Finance and Social Sciences (currently the Management and Public Accounting School [EACP, in Spanish]) at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, these publications motivated authors from outside the University to gradually get involved in this editorial project. Over the years, Innovar became a recognized publication in the disciplinary fields of management and accounting, especially in the Spanish- and Portuuese-speaking worlds, as shown in fiure 1. In this regard, today approximately 74% of our authors come from other countries (1), especially Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Spain.
Although Innovar is currently an international journal, it has permanently served as a showcase for the intellectual production of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, and in particular the EACP, at the National University of Colombia. With the policy of prioritizing the editorial process of papers presented by this academic community, the journal continues to disseminate research in areas such as public administration, information and communication technology management, management and organizations, critical accounting, and accounting and finance.
The prestige and recognition gained by Innovar in the fields of management and accounting rise above the particular sphere of the journal, as it has represented the Faculty and the University before other academic communities. When a query is made in any database, not only the name of the journal is retrieved, but also that of the promoting or publishing institution; thus, the uninterrupted work for over 30 years of all the editors, committees and editorial teams, authors and reviewers, together with the fidelity of our readers, has also had an impact on the recognition of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the National University of Colombia, and its EACP.
For the sake of clarity, I would like to invite you to compare Innovar with other peer journals in the fields of management and accounting using bibliometric data. From Table 1, which shows some citation indexes for thirteen academic journals, including Innovar, we can conclude that our journal is one of the best ranked. As observed, its H5 index is above the average for its peers, and it is the only publication in Colombia within its disciplinary field classified in Scimago Q3 category.
In short, it is expected that Innovar will continue to serve as a means of disseminating research in management and accounting, part of it carried out within the Faculty, taking into account that the aforementioned bibliographic results are not the product of chance or a conjuncture, but of the continuous and diligent work of a community and of State funding. Furthermore, the recognition of this publication and the institution that sponsors it will surely continue to motivate national and foreign professors and researchers to show their findings and recommendations in management and accounting through Innovar.
VICTOR MAURICIO CASTANEDA-RODRIGUEZ
Associate Professor
Innovar General Editor
Bogota Campus
National University of Colombia
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A plural and critical seal to understand the challenges of scientific disciplines and the country
Over the 70 years of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, the publications of the Editorial Center have been a two-way bet: on the one hand, they publicize the research of the University professors or conducted in conjunction with other researchers; on the other hand, they contribute to debates of academic and broad interest on issues of economic development. Both bets aim to be a scientific, cultural, and collective project of the nation in its mission to study and analyze national problems, as well as independently propose relevant formulations and solutions.
Thus, publications are not just an outreach project. Over the years, we have sought works with a critical and contributive sense to think about the country's development in its multiple and changing dimensions, both in terms of the relevance of topics and the theories on which it is based and how development is understood from economic, social, organizational or accounting transparency capacities, that is, from the economic sciences.
Among these publications, I highlight three major groups of work: (i) those consistent with the idea of the Faculty to contribute to the development of the country. These works focus on the multiple facets of development both in theory and in its components for the country; (ii) the works in accounting and administrative areas that emerge later in the history of the publications as a result of the...
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