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Forty-eight monographs receive the CEA-APQ 2025 Academic Publishing Quality Label

  • 17/12/2025

Forty-eight individual monographs from eighteen university and academic publishers have been awarded the CEA-APQ Label of Quality in Academic Publishing in the third edition of this quality recognition programme. Twenty-five of these monographs belong to the field of Arts and Humanities, twenty-one to Social and Legal Sciences, one to Engineering and Architecture, and one to Health Sciences. 

After successfully completing the evaluation process, these forty-eight monographs have been awarded the CEA-APQ Monographs Label of Quality on a permanent basis. They are as follows: 

Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona 

Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha 

Fundación Pública Centro de Estudios Andaluces 

Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas 

Editorial Universidad Francisco de Vitoria 

Editorial Universidad de Granada 

Editorial Universidad de Huelva 

Editorial Universidad de Jaén. UJA Editorial 

Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I 

Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León 

Marcial Pons Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales 

Editorial UNED  

Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo  

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València 

Publicaciones de la Universidad Pontificia Comillas 

Editorial Universidad de Sevilla 

Publicacions de la Universitat de València 

Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid 

Quality Recognition

These forty-eight monographs meet the nine requirements for monographs applying for this recognition: quality and transparency of information (identification of the monograph, electronic availability, and inclusion of metadata), quality of the editorial policy (availability of the scientific or editorial committee and the publishing entity's editorial policy), and quality of the editorial and scientific evaluation process (instructions for manuscript submission, information on the manuscript selection process, external evaluation reports, and a reasoned explanation of the publication decision).

Composition of the Committees

The evaluation committees were composed, in the case of the Arts and Humanities Area, of José Pascual González, Professor of Ancient History at the Autonomous University of Madrid; Carmen Martín Moreno, Professor at the School of History and Musicology of the University of Granada; Carlos Julián Martínez Soria, Professor of Art History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha; and Francisco García Fitz, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Extremadura.

The Social Sciences and Law Committee was composed of María Ángeles Egusquiza Balmaseda, Professor of Civil Law at the Public University of Navarre; Pablo Meira Cartea, Professor of Theory and History of Education at the University of Santiago de Compostela; Ana Isabel González, Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Oviedo; and Lluís Pastor, Professor of Communication Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia.

The Engineering and Architecture Committee was composed of Juan Manuel Díaz Cabrera, Professor of Electrical and Automatic Engineering at the University of Córdoba; Jacinto González Pachón, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic University of Madrid; and Matilde Santos Peñas, Professor of Computer Architecture and Automation at the Complutense University of Madrid. Francisco Fernández Beltrán, Professor at Universitat Jaume I, former Director of Publications at UJI, and former President of UNE.

The Health Sciences committee included Juan Francisco Madrid Cuevas, Professor of Cell Biology and Histology of Mammalian Reproduction at the University of Murcia; Macarena Perán Quesada, Professor of Human Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Jaén; Conrado Navalón Vila, Professor of Basic Psychology and Methodology at the University of Murcia; and Arantxa García Pizarro, Professor of Nursing at the University of La Laguna and former Director of the ULL Press.

Final Resolutions

Following the reports issued by the evaluation committees for the four areas of knowledge, the Monitoring Committee was responsible for adopting the final resolutions. Its members were Susana Quicios, Director of the Faculty Evaluation Division of ANECA; Anabel Bonilla, Head of International Accreditation Processes at ANECA; Cristina González, Director of Scientific Information at FECYT; María Ángeles Coslado, Head of the Journal Evaluation Process for the FECYT Seal; María Isabel Cabrera, President of UNE; Ana Isabel González, Quality Advisor at UNE; and Joaquín Corbacho, Administrator of the CEA-APQ Seal.

Research Merits

The CEA-APQ Seal, created and developed by UNE and endorsed by ANECA and FECYT, has been recognized since its creation in 2017 as an indicator of the quality of publications in the evaluation of research activity. This recognition is granted by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI), and it is also included in the evaluation criteria for research merits claimed for the various faculty accreditation categories carried out by ANECA (See Resolution 2025 submitted by CNEAI and ANECA to the Official State Gazette).

Accredited Works and Collections

One hundred and twenty-three individual monographs have now received the CEA-APQ Academic Publishing Quality Seal, joining the 68 collections that currently hold this certification, created and developed by UNE and endorsed by ANECA and FECYT.

CEA-APQ Collections Seal Call for Applications 2026

The tenth call for applications for the CEA-APQ Collections Seal will open on January 7, 2026, and the guidelines and evaluation criteria are now available on the seal's website.