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Ciencias Psicológicas

versão impressa ISSN 1688-4094versão On-line ISSN 1688-4221

Cienc. Psicol. vol.12 no.1 Montevideo maio 2018

 

Editorial

Editorial Note May 2018 Some of the challenges of scientific publications these days


This first issue of volume XII of 2018 shows the diversity of works and origins that publish with us, which makes us proud and at the same time indicates another stage of this challenge of publishing in several languages ​​and being open to the world from South America. We are present already in the Web of Science through Scielo, a platform that - together with others - allows us to reach more readers, although at the same time, it is an arduous task to do it adjusted to quality standards. This is also a special recognition to the editorial management team of Ciencias Psicológicas, which works with dedication in each article and in the different languages ​​in which it is presented, both in the online and in print versions.

Research in psychology in Ibero-America has increased notoriously, which generates the need for publication spaces and in turn these offer the assurance of arbitration and indexing. All this has impacted on scientific publications in a surprising way, now we have had to migrate to bi or trilinguism, for example, in our case the journal is published in Spanish or Portuguese and English, in addition to the tasks of managing editorial management on virtual platforms, taking care of compliance with criteria both methodological and formal, as well as ensuring the content and its updating.

The challenges in the publishing world with the multiplicity of information that coexists at the same time and in nearby virtual spaces; electronic formats almost as they reach the mobile phone; the handling of time and scientific products, among others, have influenced these new styles of publication and so points to shorter, more concrete articles, with few and clear graphs and totally focused on the subject that was proposed to study and discuss. Communication in science runs between brevity and evidence; among such demands writing a scientific article is much more than narrating the studies carried out, therefore requires training and education and being updated in the standards of the edition. Also to the editorial bodies and arbitrators it demands to analyze the communications from that perspective; the whole system moves together. The question of the format cannot also overshadow the originality and contribution to the knowledge that means a good scientific communication, the essential thing should continue there and settle

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