Back Awarding of the CEA-APQ Quality Seal in Academic Publishing Collections 2023

Awarding of the CEA-APQ Quality Seal in Academic Publishing Collections 2023

  • 03/11/2023

17 collections have been awarded in this seventh call

The event will be broadcast on the UNE and FECYT Youtube channels

 

The director of the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA), Pilar Paneque, the general director of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Imma Aguilar, and the president of UNE, María Isabel Cabrera, will present the certificates of the CEA-APQ Seal of Quality in Academic Publishing that seventeen editorial collections have obtained in 2023.

The event will take place on November 8, at 12:30 pm, at the headquarters of FECYT, in the auditorium of the National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT), located at Calle Pintor Velázquez, 5, in the city of Alcobendas (Madrid).  

The seventeen editorial collections that have obtained in 2023 the CEA-APQ seal of Quality in Academic Publishing have been recognized for their scientific and editorial quality, in addition to the period evaluated, for the next five years, after having favorably passed the requirements that this distinction demands in terms of information quality, editorial policy, editorial processes and reputation and prestige. 

Of these seventeen collections, eight have obtained this distinction for the first time and nine have renewed it, which confirms the good practices and commitment of university publishers to the standards set by this system of validation of the editorial quality of scientific collections.

The eight collections that have obtained the CEA-APQ seal for the first time are:

The nine that have renewed it are:

What does the CEA-APQ Collections Seal evaluate?

The seal, which accredits scientific quality, is awarded to those collections that meet the requirements in four sections:

 Informative quality of the collection. The seal evaluates different aspects of the communication, dissemination and access of the collection, such as the identification of the collection, the inclusion of metadata and reviews in scientific journals.
Quality of the editorial policy. The requirements, in this case, analyze the definition of the editorial policy of each collection and the identification and prestige of the collection director and the scientific committee.
Quality of editorial processes. The publishers must accredit the existence of detailed instructions for the submission of works, information on the manuscript selection process and the reasoned communication of the acceptance or rejection of the works.
Reputation and prestige of the collection. Finally, the requirements in this section value the frequent publication of authors from outside the publishing institution and the capacity to attract original works by foreign authors, in addition to the citations and reviews received.

2023: a more demanding call for submissions

Both the collections that have obtained the seal for the first time and those that have renewed it have had to comply with new requirements that have been demanded in this seventh call, such as a higher percentage of authors from outside the publisher's institution (from 45% to 50%) and the reduction of the presence of the persons responsible for the collection (directors or members of the committee responsible for the editorial process) as authors, editors or coordinators in the set of titles published by the collections in the evaluated period (from 30% to 20%).

Consolidated Evaluation Criteria

The CEA-APQ Seal has been recognized, since its creation in 2017, as an indication of the quality of publications in the evaluation of research activity, recognition carried out by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI), and in the evaluation criteria of research merits claimed for the different figures of faculty accreditation carried out by ANECA. 

63 accredited collections

After the seventh call, 63 collections now have this seal, which recognizes best practices in Spanish university publishing, promotes and stimulates quality in academic publishing and is an indication of scientific quality recognized by research activity evaluation agencies and the university community.

Composition of the commissions

The 2023 Follow-up Commission was composed of: Susana Quicios, director of the Faculty Evaluation Division of ANECA; Anabel Bonilla, responsible for international accreditation processes of ANECA; Cristina González, director of Scientific Information of FECYT; María Ángeles Coslado, responsible for the evaluation process of journals of the FECYT seal; María Isabel Cabrera, president of UNE; Ana Isabel González, Quality advisor of UNE; and Joaquín Corbacho, administrator of the CEA-APQ Seal. 

The members of the Evaluation Commission in this seventh call were: Javier Esparcia, Professor of Geography at the University of Valencia; José María Martínez, Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Murcia; Miguel Cainzos, Professor of Sociology at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Teresa Jiménez, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Alcalá; José Francisco Tirado, Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Álvaro Gutiérrez, Professor of Procedural Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; and Elea Giménez, researcher at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

ANECA. FECYT and UNE

At the forefront of the creation and development of the Academic Publishing Quality Seal (CEA-APQ) is the UNE, responsible for coordinating the work together with ANECA and FECYT.