Policies

Scope and Focus

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH is an open-access online journal of the Institute of Economic and Administrative Sciences of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo. It is a biannual publication released at the beginning of each period, in January and July.

The journal aims to publish original theoretical and applied research articles for professors, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, and professionals interested in the field.

The journal covers a broad range of disciplines:

• Economics
• Accounting
• Administration
• Foreign Trade
• Marketing
• Tourism
• Gastronomy

About the audience

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH is a resource that offers professionals in the economic-administrative sciences access to up-to-date information on the various related disciplines. As an open-access journal, all readers have unlimited access to all publications.

Research and review articles published in the journal undergo a double-blind peer review process. The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH accepts original and unpublished articles that must not have been previously published in other journals. The journal welcomes manuscripts from researchers in all economic-administrative sciences from around the world.

All manuscripts are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows the use, distribution, and reproduction of the material without restrictions and for non-commercial purposes in any medium, provided that the work is properly cited. The journal's primary publication format is PDF. No payment is required from authors to publish their manuscripts in the journal. Manuscripts must be written in English.

Section Policies

Articles

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Reviews

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Knowledge application summaries, maps, or diagrams

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Research or practice reports

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Bibliographies

Open submissions

Indexed

Peer reviewed

Peer Review Process

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH has a prestigious editorial board of 15 members, all of them recognized experts in their field. Double-blind peer review consists of the critical evaluation of manuscripts submitted to our journal by experts outside the editorial team. All articles submitted to the Journal of Administrative Science UAEH undergo an initial review by the editor and an expert researcher from the editorial board. Subsequently, the article is sent for peer review by independent external reviewers according to the following criteria:

After acceptance. Accepted manuscripts are typeset and proofs are sent to authors for final correction before publication. Authors must review the proofs and return them within 48 hours.

Publication Frequency

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH is a biannual journal published at the beginning of each period (January and July).

The journal's publication periods cover January-June and July-December.

Open Access Policy

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH provides open access to its content, based on the principle that providing the public with free access to research helps promote the global exchange of knowledge, which is why it does not charge users to consult its articles or authors to publish their manuscripts.

The journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows users to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format under the following terms:

• Attribution: proper recognition of the journal authorship, indicating the source.
• Non-commercial: the material may not be used for commercial purposes.
• No derivatives: the material may not be distributed if it has been modified or altered.

Self-Archiving Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication promotes dissemination, preservation, and open access to scientific knowledge.

Authors retain the copyright to their published works and authorize the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo to publish, disseminate, preserve, and distribute the content in accordance with the publication's current license.

Authors may share the bibliographic reference of their published works and the official publication link provided by the publication.

They may also deposit the published version in institutional repositories, academic repositories, scientific dissemination platforms, or personal websites, provided that:

• The corresponding attribution to the publication is maintained.
• The DOI or persistent identifier is preserved when one exists.
• The official published version is cited.
• The current Creative Commons license is respected.
• A derivative version is not altered, modified, or distributed when the applicable license restricts it.

Any subsequent dissemination is preferably expected to refer to the official version available on the UAEH institutional journal portal, in order to ensure preservation, traceability, and proper citation of the scientific content.

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication recognizes that Artificial Intelligence tools, including generative AI systems, writing assistants, automatic translators, style correction tools, and information-organization support systems, may be used as auxiliary support during manuscript preparation.

The use of these tools does not replace the intellectual, ethical, and legal responsibility of the authors. Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy, originality, relevance, and academic validity of all content submitted to the publication.

The use of Artificial Intelligence tools is permitted for auxiliary tasks such as spelling and grammar correction, style improvement, translation, preliminary organization of ideas, or support for the clarity of the text.

It is not permitted to use Artificial Intelligence tools to fabricate, alter, or manipulate data, generate nonexistent bibliographic references, produce results or conclusions without human supervision, or present AI-generated content as one's own intellectual production without review and the corresponding declaration.

Artificial Intelligence tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors of any manuscript.

Authors must explicitly declare any significant use of Artificial Intelligence tools in manuscript preparation, indicating the tool used, version or model when possible, purpose of use, and scope of its participation.

The publication may request additional clarifications when there are indications of improper use of Artificial Intelligence tools.

Open Science and Data Availability

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication promotes the principles of Open Science through practices that foster transparency, reproducibility, and responsible reuse of scientific knowledge.

Authors are encouraged to share datasets, supplementary materials, instruments, code, transcripts, or other resources derived from the research whenever possible and appropriate according to the nature of the work.

Materials may be deposited in recognized institutional, subject-specific, or academic repositories, preferably including the corresponding reference within the manuscript.

When ethical, legal, confidentiality, personal data protection, third-party rights, or institutional agreements restrict the sharing of information, authors must state this explicitly in the manuscript.

Data availability will be assessed considering the nature of each study, disciplinary particularities, and respect for the applicable ethical principles.

External Authorship Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

External authorship refers to authors whose primary affiliation does not correspond to UAEH. When a manuscript includes mixed authorship, external status will be determined based on the primary affiliation declared by each author at submission.

The publication will promote external authorship as part of academic openness, interinstitutional collaboration, and disciplinary diversity.

For editorial monitoring purposes, each journal or bulletin will publish an annual verifiable report on external authorship that will include, at minimum, the evaluated period, the total number of published articles, the total number of articles with at least one external author, the total number of listed authors, the total number of external authors, and the calculation method used.

The suggested institutional indicator will be as follows:

Percentage of articles with external authorship = (number of articles published in the period that include at least one author with an affiliation external to UAEH / total number of articles published in the period) x 100.

The journal may complement this indicator with the percentage of external authors relative to the total number of listed authors.

The annual report must be available on the journal or bulletin website and may be linked from the Editorial Policies, Announcements, or an institutional repository section.

Social Relevance Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication will request that manuscripts include a brief section called "Social Relevance," "Social Impact," or equivalent, in which the academic, social, community, institutional, or professional usefulness of the study is clearly explained.

That section should indicate, as applicable, what problem the research addresses, which population or sector benefits, what contribution it makes, and what its disciplinary, territorial, or community scope is.

The length may be brief and adjusted to the nature of each discipline or article type.

Additionally, the editorial presentation of each issue may include a summary of the social value of the published works and their possible use by academic, professional, or social communities.

This information must be incorporated into the instructions for authors and the corresponding manuscript template.

Public Communication Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The journal or bulletin will carry out public communication and scientific dissemination actions to increase the visibility of its calls for papers, editorial processes, published issues, and research results.

Dissemination actions may include announcements in OJS, institutional microsites, supporting websites, institutional social media, electronic bulletins, outreach notes, infographics, interviews, informational capsules, and other dissemination pieces approved by the editorial team.

Whenever possible, each dissemination action must include the publication date, link, responsible person or issuing area, and evidence of dissemination.

The publication will ensure that public communication always refers to the official version available on the institutional portal, in order to preserve traceability, proper citation, and editorial integrity.

Journals and bulletins may maintain an annual record of public communication activities as evidence of compliance.

Web Accessibility Policy

This policy is part of the institutional editorial guidelines applicable to the scientific journals and bulletins published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

The publication adopts the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA as the technical reference for the progressive review of its website, graphic theme, plugins, forms, images, navigation, and PDF documents.

Compliance will not be presumed solely by the use of OJS 3.3.0-20 or by the default theme; any compliance statement must be supported by a documented technical verification of the specific installation.

The journal or bulletin will carry out periodic accessibility reviews and record the barriers detected, the corrections applied, and the remediation status.

When it is not possible to immediately correct a technical barrier inherited from the platform, the publication will document the limitation and establish priority improvement actions.

As part of this policy, published content should follow minimum accessibility best practices, including sufficient contrast, semantic heading structure, keyboard navigation, alternative text for images, form labels, readable text, and PDF documents prepared for accessible reading.

The publication may issue an accessibility status statement once the corresponding technical review has been completed.

Installation accessibility status:

The journal is conducting an ongoing technical review of its OJS installation, templates, and PDF documents. As of today, there is not enough evidence to declare full compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA. Any compliance statement must be based solely on documentary evidence derived from that review.

• Technical accessibility verification annex.

The publication acknowledges that web accessibility is part of a continuous improvement process. In this context, the progressive migration to more recent versions of the OJS platform is being evaluated, as these versions include functional and technical improvements that may support site and component accessibility.

At present, the upgrade to a later version is conditioned by technical dependencies and incompatibilities inherited from previous migrations, which are being resolved by the responsible team.

While that process is completed, the journal will maintain review, correction, and remediation measures on the current installation, with the aim of reducing access barriers and documenting the actual accessibility status of its portal.

Ethical Code

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH declares its commitment to academic integrity, editorial transparency, and good scientific publishing practices. This code must be observed by authors, reviewers, editors, and all persons involved in the editorial process.

Authors' commitments

• Originality and plagiarism: Authors must guarantee that manuscripts submitted are original and unpublished and are not under simultaneous review elsewhere. They must also confirm the truthfulness of the data and declare that it has not been altered, fabricated, or manipulated.
• Authorship: Authors guarantee that the manuscript corresponds to the people who sign it. Authorship implies active and significant participation in the conception, development, analysis, writing, or critical revision of the work. The order of authorship must be established according to each participant's contribution and responsibility.
• Conflict of interest and disclosure: All authors must declare any conflict of interest that could influence the results, interpretation, or presentation of the work. They must also report funding sources, institutional support, or projects from which the manuscript derives.
• Responsibility: Responsibility for the content of published articles rests exclusively with the authors. Authors commit to reviewing current, relevant, and sufficient literature on the topic analyzed.
• Attributions, citations, and references: Authors must correctly acknowledge the sources, ideas, data, images, materials, and contributions used in the manuscript.

Reviewers' commitments

• Contribution to the editorial decision: Peer review contributes to editorial decision-making and helps improve manuscript quality. Reviewers commit to providing a critical, honest, objective, and constructive evaluation of the scientific and editorial quality of the work.
• Respect for review times: Reviewers who do not consider themselves competent in the topic or who cannot finish the evaluation within the established deadline must notify the editors immediately. Reviewers must respect the assigned timeframes to support timely communication of results to authors.
• Confidentiality: Every manuscript assigned for review must be considered confidential. The texts, data, results, or ideas contained in them must not be discussed or used without the express authorization of the editors.
• Objectivity: Reviewers must support their observations and recommendations with clear, respectful, and relevant arguments. They must also inform the editors if they detect substantial overlaps with published works or manuscripts under review.
• Anonymity: To preserve the impartiality of the process, the identities of authors and reviewers will remain anonymous during evaluation. If information compromising anonymity is detected, the reviewer must notify the editors immediately.

Editors' commitments

• Publication decision: Editors will seek reviewers with experience and academic competence in the manuscript topic in order to issue a critical, specialized, and objective evaluation. The journal will aim to have at least two external reviewers for each manuscript.
• Honesty: Editors will evaluate articles based on scientific quality, thematic relevance, originality, methodological rigor, and academic contribution, without discrimination on the basis of origin, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality, political opinion, or any other personal or institutional condition of the authors.
• Confidentiality: Editors and the Editorial Committee commit to maintaining the confidentiality of manuscripts, authors, and reviewers throughout the editorial process.
• Conflict of interest and disclosure: Editors must not use the contents of manuscripts submitted for publication for their own benefit or in their research without the express authorization of the authors.
• Respect of times: Editors are responsible for ensuring compliance with the review, editing, and publication timeframes for accepted manuscripts.

The Journal of Administrative Science UAEH adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) core practices: https://publicationethics.org/.

Copyright

If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors retain the copyright of their published articles without restrictions and grant the Journal of Administrative Science UAEH, on a permanent and non-exclusive basis, the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, exhibit, and disseminate their work nationally and internationally in order to preserve it and make it open access, in whole or in part, through current institutional digital media and channels, databases, repositories, and portals under the same publication license.

Authorship and Changes in Authorship

Authorship of manuscripts must be fully defined from the initial submission stage through the OJS platform. The inclusion, deletion, or reordering of authors, as well as a change in corresponding author, may only be considered during the manuscript evaluation stage, provided that this situation has been formally notified by the corresponding author before final acceptance and includes the corresponding justification.

Once the manuscript has been accepted and published, changes in authorship will not be allowed except in duly documented exceptional cases, which will be evaluated according to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Requests for authorship modification after publication, motivated by external administrative, institutional, or academic requirements, do not constitute a valid criterion for editorial changes and may be rejected to safeguard the integrity, transparency, and credibility of the publication.

Metadata and Interoperability Policy

The publication adopts a metadata policy designed to ensure interoperability, editorial traceability, the correct citation of published works, and the permanent retrieval of its content.

The publication uses Dublin Core as its main interoperability schema through OAI-PMH, with public access to its harvesting endpoint at the following address:

https://repository.uaeh.edu.mx/revistas/index.php/jas/oai

This implementation enables the harvesting and exchange of metadata with indexing, aggregation, and bibliographic preservation systems.

Mandatory metadata

Every submitted manuscript and every published article must record, at a minimum, the following metadata:

• title in the manuscript's main language
• title in English
• full name of each author
• full institutional affiliation
• country of affiliation
• ORCID identifier
• correspondence email
• abstract / summary
• keywords
• manuscript language
• dates of receipt, review, acceptance, postprint when applicable, and publication
• normalized bibliographic references
• DOI or other persistent identifier, when applicable
• publication license
• volume, issue, year, and page range of the published article

When the manuscript type requires it, other metadata may also be mandatory, such as funding, conflict of interest statement, data availability, acknowledgments, and editorial notes.

Editorial capture and validation

Metadata are initially captured by authors during the OJS submission process.

Subsequently, metadata review and validation are the responsibility of the editorial team. In particular:

• the section editor reviews that the metadata are complete and consistent with the submitted manuscript;
• the editor-in-chief validates the final coherence among the metadata, the manuscript, the authorization or transfer letter, and the editorial publication information;
• the editorial team may request corrections before advancing the manuscript to review, editing, or publication.

Editorial validation must confirm that the published metadata match the final accepted manuscript, the corresponding authorization or transfer letter, and the version published in OJS.

Post-publication correction

If a metadata error is detected after publication, the publication will apply the editorial mechanism proportional to the type of error.

• For minor metadata errors, the corresponding editorial correction will be issued, such as an erratum or corrigendum, as appropriate.
• The original published version must not be removed or hidden.
• The correction must remain clearly linked to the original article.
• The date of the correction and the nature of the change must be documented.
• If the error affects citation elements, authorship, affiliation, DOI, abstract, keywords, or license, the published metadata must be updated in OJS and, where applicable, in harvesting and indexing services.

If the detected problem compromises the integrity of the editorial record, authorship, originality, or validity of the content, the case will be evaluated in accordance with COPE guidance on corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions.

Multiformat export development

The publication may progressively incorporate multiformat export processes from the editorial source file, in accordance with a conversion and validation methodology that ensures consistency between the original and its derivative outputs.

Editorial commitment

The publication is committed to ensuring that its metadata are complete, verifiable, consistent, interoperable, and correctable with traceability when a legitimate error exists.

Plagiarism Detection

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Administrative Science UAEH will be subjected to plagiarism detection tools: EduBirdie, Plagius, and Plag, which analyze texts for matches to ensure their originality. This is done by the Editor-in-Chief upon receiving the submission and before starting the peer review process. If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected in a manuscript submitted for publication, the procedure detailed by COPE will be followed as outlined in the following diagram.

Digital Preservation

To ensure the integrity, accessibility, and long-term preservation of published content, this journal implements several digital preservation strategies. In particular, it actively participates in the following initiatives:

• PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN): a preservation system promoted by the Public Knowledge Project, which ensures the safekeeping of journal content that uses OJS and meets the established editorial requirements.
• LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe): a decentralized preservation technology that allows multiple copies of the content to be stored in different participating libraries, ensuring recovery in the event of loss or damage.
• CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS): a controlled variant of LOCKSS, managed by academic libraries and publishers, offering a reliable and permanent archiving solution.

These tools help safeguard articles and editorial materials through distributed and secure copies, reinforcing the journal's commitment to the continuous availability of scientific knowledge.

Indexes and Databases

Our journal is proudly indexed in several recognized platforms. You may consult them here.