About the Journal
Objectives and Scope
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas is a journal in the fields of economics and administrative sciences, published continuously three times per year since April 1994. It is edited by the División Académica de Ciencias Económico Administrativas (DACEA), under the scientific publications of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT).
The journal publishes articles in Spanish and English, and the authors hold sole responsibility for the content. Permission is granted to reproduce the journal’s content for educational purposes, provided that the source and the copyright ownership are properly acknowledged.
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas has as a primary objective disseminate the results of research conducted by professionals in the fields of economic and administrative sciences. Its principal audience consists of faculty researchers in these disciplines, as well as students and professionals in training related to the aforementioned areas of study.
In its commitment to open access to scientific knowledge, the journal is published free of charge and does not require authors to pay submission or publication fees (no APC). Likewise, all content is freely available, users may read, download, print, share, or use it for any lawful purpose, provided that they comply with the conditions established under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License – Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivaves 4.0 International.
This work was published under the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ until Vol. 30, No. 88 (September-December 2024). As of that date, the publication operates under the terms of the Creative Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license.
Editorial Contact
Editor-in-Chief, L.C.C Jaime Alberto Osorio Villafuerte, División Académica de Ciencias Económico Administrativas, Av. Universidad s/n, Zona de la Cultura, Col. Magisterial, C.P. 86040, Villahermosa, Tabasco.
E-mail: hitos@ujat.mx
ISSN: 2448-4733
Peer Review Process
The articles published in Revista Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas are evaluated by at least two national and international reviewers (external/independent peers) who specialize in the same research area addressed by the manuscript. In the event of discrepancies between the reviewers’ evaluations, the manuscript will be submitted to a third reviewer.
The journal employs a DOUBLE-BLIND peer review process conducted by experts in the relevant field who are independent of the institution to which the research work is affiliated. Likewise, the assigned reviewers must work in accordance with the editorial standards of APA (American Psychological Association), which the journal requires to verify the quality of submitted articles.
The journals review board is composed primarily of external, independent researchers from outside the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, all of whom are experts in the fields of economic and administrative sciences who ethically conduct the peer-review process.
OPEN ACCES POLICY AND LEGAL NOTICE
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal, published by the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT), is a scholarly journal firmly and unequivocally committed to Open Access (OA). All reviewed scientific knowledge should be disseminated to society without financial, legal or technical barriers.
No Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Fully free publication: The journal does not charge any Article Processing Charge.
No editorial fees: There are no hidden costs for submission, review, or editorial processing.
Immediate universal access: Readers have free access to all issues without payment requirements.
Copyright management and legal transfer
Copyright transfer: Authors transfer the economic rights of their work through an official agreement.
Copyright transfer agreement: Mandatory submission form during manuscript application.
Right holder: Copyright ownership is legally transferred to the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco.
Non-commercial protection: The institution safeguards the work against unauthorized commercial exploitation.
Creative Commons License Terms
Since Vol. 31, No. 89, the journal’s digital content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which establishes the following conditions:
Attribution (BY): Appropriate credit must be given, and the original source of the work must be acknowledged.
NonCommercial (NC): The material may not be used for commercial purposes or financial gain.
NoDerivatives (ND): If the material is remixed, transformed, or otherwise modified, the modified version may not be distributed.
Indexing and Scientific Repositories
To maximize scholarly impact, international visibility, and long-term digital preservation, the journal’s articles are actively indexed and disseminated through the following recognized bibliographic database:
Latindex Catalog 2.0: Regional online information system for scientific journals published in Ibero-America.
Biblat: Portal for scientific and technical-academic journals from Latin America.
CLASE: Latin American Citations in Social Sciences and Humanities
LatinREV: Latin American network of academic journals in the social sciences.
AURA: Editorial openness and scholarly publishing policy platform.
Dialnet: Bibliographic portal and open-access digital repository specializing in scholarly literature in the Spanish-speaking world.
MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals
Scilit: A multidisciplinary academic database and scholarly search engine that provides free and open access to scientific literature.
OpenAlex: A free, open, and global online catalog and database that indexes information on the world's scholarly literature.
Open Access Policy (OA)
Open access refers to an international movement whose objective is to ensure that any person in the world with internet connection can freely access scientific, academic, and cultural information without economic, technical, or legal restrictions.
Open Access is based on the BBB definition: Budapest (BOAI, 2002), Berlin (2003), and Bethesda (2003).
The Budapest open Access Initiative (BOIA, 2002) defines Open Access as “free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.”
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access (Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, October 2003) establishes two conditions for open access:
- The author(s) and copyright holder(s) of such contributions must grant to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide right of access to scholarly work, together with a license to copy, use, distribute derivate works in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution. Community standards will continue to provide mechanisms for enforcing appropriate attribution and responsible use of published works, as is current practice. Users are also granted the right to make a limited number of printed copies for personal use.
- A complete version of the work and all supplementary materials, including a copy of the permission referred above, shall be deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using appropriate technical standards (such as those supporting Open Access), maintained and supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other established organization, committed to unrestricted access, interoperability, long-term preservation, and open distribution.
http://oa.mpg.de/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/
The Bethesda Statement (2003) defines scientific research and its objective as “an interdependent process in which each experiment is informed by the results of others. Scientifics conducting research and the professional societies that represent them have a strong interest in ensuring that research findings are disseminated as immediately, broadly, and effectively as possible. Electronic publication of research results provides both the opportunity and the obligation to share research findings, ideas, and discoveries freely with scientific community and the public.”
https://ictlogy.net/articles/bethesda_es.html
Revista Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal provides open access to its contents, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research promotes a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Anti-Plagiarism Policy
The editorial board of Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas reserves the right to reject during the review process, any manuscript that fails to provide proper citation of the sources consulted in the research paper, as such conduct may constitute plagiarism. Anti-plagiarism review is conducted using the specialized software iThenticate.
https://app.ithenticate.com/en_us/login
Copyright Policy
Authors publishing in the journal agree to the following terms:
- Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the author transfers the rights to the paper to Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas.
- Authors may enter into additional non-exclusive agreements for the distribution of the published version of the article (e.g., inclusion in an institutional repository or publication in a book), provided that the initial publication in this journal is acknowledged.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their research paper online (e.g., in institutional or personal repositories), which may facilitate beneficial exchanges and increase citations of the published work.
This work is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Digital Preservation Policy
Through its digital preservation practices, Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal, ensures the permanent preservation of the intellectual content of its electronic documents through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) plugin in (OJS), guaranteeing that journal content remains accessible even if publication of the journal ceases. The commitment is maintaining the integrity, authenticity, immutability, originality, reliability, and accessibility of all published papers.
This objective is further supported through the Institutional Repository of the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (http://ri.ujat.mx/handle/20.500.12107/243), which provides open-source digital preservation services.
CODE OF ETHICS AND STATEMENT OF BEST PRACTICES
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal is committed to accepting manuscripts related to the disciplines of Economic and Administrative Sciences. These manuscripts undergo peer review, maintaining the confidentiality of the information, which shall be disclosed only to editors, reviewers, and/or consulted experts, in accordance with the ethical principles established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at https://publicationethics.org.
To ensure research integrity, this commitment extends to the following institutional guidelines:
RESPONSIBILITIES OF AUTHORS
Originality and authorship. Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are entirely original. Any citation or reference to the work of third parties must be properly acknowledged in accordance with the Journal's editorial guidelines.
Declaration of the use of Generative AI. Authors must explicitly declare in the manuscript (within the methodology section or by means of an explanatory note) whether they used AI tools during the research process, data collection, or manuscript writing, specifying the software used and its intended purpose. AI may not be listed as an author or co-author.
Data access and retention. Authors must be prepared to provide the raw data underlying their research if requested by the Editorial Team or reviewers/evaluators to validate the results.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EDITORIAL TEAM
Transparency and fairness. Editors shall evaluate manuscripts exclusively based on their scientific and intellectual merit, without discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, or political philosophy of the authors.
Ethical use of technology and AI. The Editorial Team may employ advanced technological tools (such as iThenticate) to detect text similarities, plagiarism, and patterns indicative of text generated by Artificial Intelligence through automated procedures.
Digital confidentiality. Unpublished manuscripts shall not be uploaded to commercial or publicly available generative AI tools that could compromise the intellectual property and copyright of researchers.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF EXTERNAL REVIEWERS / EVALUATORS
Objective and confidential evaluation. Reviewers/evaluators must treat manuscripts as strictly confidential documents. The disclosure or use of the ideas or data contained prior to their official publication is strictly prohibited.
Strict restriction on the use of AI during evaluation. Reviewers/evaluators are prohibited from entering manuscript text, summaries, code, or data into generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or similar tools), as doing so constitutes a direct violation of the COPE's confidentiality principles.
Declaration of use. If a reviewer/evaluator uses authorized technological tools to improve the quality of writing or to verify bibliographic references, such use must be disclosed to the editor. Nevertheless, the human reviewer assumes full academic responsibility for the final review report.
STATEMENT ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) BY AUTHORS
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal acknowledges the impact of emerging technologies on research. Nevertheless, in accordance with the ethical principles of authorship and scientific originality, the Journal establishes strict guidelines governing the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, coding copilots, among others) in the preparation of manuscripts.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF AUTHORSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY
AI is not an author. AI tools do not meet the criteria to be recognized as co-authors, since they cannot assume legal, ethical, or intellectual responsibility for published content.
Author responsibility. Human authors are solely responsible for the accuracy, integrity, originality, and veracity of all text, data, analyses, and references contained in their work.
Mandatory originality. The use of AI must not result in plagiarism, data fabrication, or conceptual bias.
TRANSPARENCY AND MANDATORY DISCLOSURE IN THE MANUSCRIPT
Any use of generative AI during the writing process, data analysis, or idea generation must be formally disclosed by the authors.
Specific section. Authors must include a section entitled "Declaration of the Use of Artificial Intelligence" at the end of the main text (immediately before the references).
Technical details. This section must specify the name of the tool used, its version, the exact purpose of its use (for example, language editing, translation, or optimization of economic data analysis code), and the prompting methodology employed.
Extent of AI contribution. Authors must explicitly report the estimated percentage of content (text, figures, or analyses) in which AI directly contributed or assisted during manuscript preparation, ensuring that the conceptual contribution and intellectual authorship remain predominantly human.
EDITORIAL EVALUATION CRITERIA
The Journal's Editorial Board and peer reviewers shall evaluate the declaration regarding the use of AI to determine whether the author's original contribution justifies publication. Any omission or false statement in this declaration shall be considered a serious breach of publication ethics and shall constitute grounds for the immediate rejection of the manuscript or, if the article has already been published, for its retraction.
PLAGIARISM PREVENTION AND THE USE OF iTHENTICATE
Maintaining an unwavering commitment to originality, academic integrity, and ethics in scholarly publishing, and to ensure compliance with these standards while combating malpractice such as plagiarism and self-plagiarism, Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal uses iThenticate, the world's leading technological tool for verifying the originality of scholarly texts.
PURPOSES AND BENEFITS OF THE TOOL IN THE EDITORIAL PROCESS
The use of iThenticate within our editorial management contributes to scientific rigor and quality through the following key functions:
Comprehensive comparative analysis. It immediately compares every submitted manuscript against a global database containing millions of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and protected web content.
Early detection of similarities. It identifies textual similarities, inappropriate paraphrasing, or verbatim transcriptions lacking proper citation before the manuscript is forwarded for peer review.
USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BY THE EDITORIAL TEAM AND EXTERNAL REVIEWERS (EVALUATORS)
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by external reviewers and the editorial team accelerates publication timelines and improves the detection of potential issues; however, it requires strict oversight to safeguard confidentiality and maintain scientific rigor.
USE BY THE EDITORIAL TEAM (INTERNAL MANAGEMENT)
Manuscript prescreening. Filters manuscripts that do not fall within the Journal's scope or fail to meet the basic formatting requirements.
Reviewer identification and assignment. Matches the manuscript's keywords against global databases to recommend the most suitable reviewers while avoiding conflicts of interest.
Advanced fraud detection. Identifies scientific image manipulation, idea plagiarism, data duplication, and paper mills.
Editing and language revision. Automates the verification of citation style (APA) and corrects grammatical or translation errors during the final stage of the editorial process.
USE OF EXTERNAL REVIEWERS (TECHNICAL EVALUATION)
Manuscript summarization. Extracts the methodologies, central arguments, and principal conclusions from the manuscript to facilitate an initial structured reading.
Optimization of the literature search. Identifies relevant scientific literature omitted by the authors in order to assess the novelty of the study.
Review report structuring. Assists in drafting clear, constructive, professional, and impartial review comments.
Validation of code and data. Automatically executes and verifies programming scripts or statistical models attached to the research.
ETHICAL GUIDELINES AND CRITICAL RESTRICTIONS
Prohibition against uploading manuscripts to commercial AI systems. Reviewers/evaluators must not upload unpublished manuscripts to publicly available Artificial Intelligence tools, as doing so violates the principles of confidentiality and intellectual property.
Responsibility for the review report. AI may provide assistance; however, the reviewer/evaluator is the sole legal and academic responsible for the final decision.
Mandatory disclosure. External reviewer(s)/evaluator(s) must disclose whether AI software was used in preparing their evaluation.
Assurance for reviewers and authors. This process safeguards the reputation of authors by ensuring that their paper is original while optimizing the time of the Editorial Committee, which receives manuscripts supported by a technical originality assessment.
Prevention of self-plagiarism and duplicate publication. It detects whether substantial portions of a manuscript have previously been published by the same authors in other spaces, ensuring that every contribution to the economic and administrative sciences represents a genuinely novel contribution.
iTHENTICATE REPORT ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Artificial Intelligence Usage Report generated by iThenticate is primarily intended to safeguard the integrity of academic research and scholarly publications by identifying text that may have been generated by large language models (generative AI).
This functionality, integrated into the Similarity Report, provides editors, reviewers, and authors with a technical basis for assessing the authenticity of a manuscript.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF THE AI REPORT GENERATED THROUGH iTHENTICATE
Detection of AI-generated content. Identifies paragraphs or sections exhibiting writing patterns commonly associated with tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini.
Predictive percentage calculation. Provides an indicator ranging from 0% to 100%, estimating the proportion of the analyzed document have been generated by AI.
Visual text mapping. Precisely highlights the specific text segments suspected of having been generated by AI software, facilitating a direct paragraph-by-paragraph audit.
Detection of evasion techniques. Identifies text that has been modified or processed using "word spinners" or AI-based rewriting tools designed to avoid standard detection mechanisms.
Reputational protection. Assists scholarly journals, universities, and academic publishers in screening manuscripts before review, preventing scientific fraud and protecting institutional reputation.
VERIFICATION PROCESS AND SIMILARITY CRITERIA
Mandatory initial screening. Every submitted manuscript undergoes a similarity analysis using iThenticate as the first technical step of the editorial evaluation process.
Desirable similarity percentage. The Journal establishes that the acceptable and DESIRABLE similarity percentage for a manuscript to proceed through the editorial process must be LESS THAN 15%. A report can also be obtained using the iThenticate tool.
Qualitative assessment of the report. The software generates a detailed report. The Editorial Team performs a qualitative assessment of each alert of similarities, excluding from the similarity percentage properly cited direct quotations, bibliographic references, and standard mathematical or statistical formulas commonly used within the field of economic and administrative sciences.
Correction process for non-compliance. If the manuscript exceeds the maximum similarity percentage of 15%, it shall be returned to the corresponding author for timely revision and correction, providing the author the opportunity to correct the identified similarities before the manuscript proceeds to the subsequent stages of the editorial process.
Use of Interoperability Protocols
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal incorporates the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interoperability protocol, which enables its content to be harvested by other distribution system. Metadata Format: Dublin Core
OAI-PMH Address: https://revistahitos.ujat.mx/index.php/hitos/oai.
Access and Reuse Policy
Hitos de Ciencias Económico Administrativas journal used the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license up to year 30 No. 88. Since year 31, No. 89, published articles are subject to the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. This means that documents published in the journal may be reproduced for any non-commercial purpose, provided that proper attribution is given to the author. Derivate works are not permitted.
