History and Purposes

Procesos. Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia is a biannual academic publication of Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador, and Corporación Editora Nacional, produced and edited by the University’s History Department. It was founded in 1991, based on the publication of the Nueva Historia del Ecuador, with the aim of promoting the professionalization of history in Ecuador and South America; contributing to the innovation of research on its past; and fostering international academic exchange. In the course of its development, the journal has engaged with the most important historiographical advances and approaches on the interpretation of the past.

Procesos issues unpublished research articles in Spanish, which are previously reviewed by anonymous academic peers from research centers in Latin America, North America, and Europe. It has an Editorial Committee, composed of historians from various institutional backgrounds; it establishes the journal’s guidelines and directs its development and contents; as well as an International Advisory Board, composed of academics from abroad. The journal’s director chairs both committees. The editor is in charge of coordinating the peer review process and defining the sequence and content of the issues, with the support of an editorial assistant, who is a member of the Redaction Board. Corporación Editora Nacional is responsible for the layout and printing.

The journal has two sections, a permanent section and an occasional section. The former includes Studies, Debates, Reviews, References, and Events, while the latter includes Obituaries, Documents, Translations, Open Classroom, Critical Dialogue, and Interviews.

The sections peer-reviewed by anonymous readers are as Studies and Debates, which regularly make up the main part of each issue. Both contain advances or final results of research, historiographical balances, thematic, theoretical-methodological, archive, and interdisciplinary discussions, as well as interventions on specific debates. The articles’ extension distinguishes the two sections. Studies includes contributions of 10,000 to 12,000 words, while Debates include contributions of 8,000 to 10,000 words. The remaining sections are evaluated by the Editor and the Editorial Committee.

Mission and vision

Because of its scholarly rigor and scope, Procesos has become the most important forum for promoting the discipline of history and historiographical debate in Ecuador. Because it is aimed at publishing state-of-the-art scholarly findings, the journal has an open-access policy and does not charge its authors any fees for remitting, processing, and disseminating the contents it publishes, that is, article submission or processing charges (APCs).

Coverage and audience

Procesos. Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia is aimed at the national and international scientific community related to the humanities, social sciences and history as a discipline.

Subject areas

Procesos. Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia is interested in publishing papers in the fields of Andean history, conceptual history, social and cultural history, new political history, urban social history, the history of science and knowledge, and memory studies, focusing on Ecuador, the Andes, and Latin America.

Publishing Entity

Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador is an academic institution with an international vocation, created as a center where experiences, values and initiatives of the countries of the Andean Region come together, and as a mechanism of contact with other university and cultural areas of the world.

As a center of excellence, the University is dedicated to research, teaching and service provision, especially for the transmission of scientific and technological knowledge. It is also proposed to promote the spirit of cooperation and coordination among the universities of the Subregion, and to contribute to the realization and strengthening of the principles of the Andean Community.

Periodicity

Semester (January - June; July - December)

Fees

Procesos. Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia does not charge fees of any kind for the publication of articles, nor does it pay financially to the authors who contribute to their research, since its purpose is the dissemination of historical knowledge.

The printed version costs US$15 and can be purchased at the Corporación Editora Nacional.

Embargo period

There is no embargo period for Procesos publications, that is, immediate access to its contents is allowed, both at the level of articles and full issues.

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