What is it about?
This work examines how academic journals improve quality by reducing “endogamy” (publishing mostly local authors) and promoting diverse affiliations, fair review processes, and international participation to ensure more objective, transparent research.
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Why is it important?
This chapter tackles a current pressure in academic publishing: the growing demand for transparency, fairness, and diversity in journals. It is unique because it does not just describe the problem of editorial endogamy—it offers clear, practical strategies that editors can apply immediately, grounded in recognized standards like COPE and evaluation criteria used by indexing agencies. It is timely because journals today are under increasing scrutiny to demonstrate international reach, ethical practices, and measurable quality, all of which are directly linked to diversifying authorship.
Perspectives
This work is valuable because it reframes editorial endogamy as a methodological and quality issue, and offers concrete strategies aligned with principles of fair, rigorous, and transparent research evaluation.
Dr Francesc Martinez-Olmo
Universitat de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Aumento de la diversidad de afiliaciones en publicaciones académicas para la mejora de la calidad editorial, March 2026, EPI SCP (El Profesional de la Informacion),
DOI: 10.3145/vrc.07.
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