Improvement actions in the scientific editorial process of Journal Boliviano de Ciencias: case study
Keywords:
Scientific publication, Likert scale, Survey to authorsAbstract
The objective of this study is to determine improvement actions for the editorial process of Journal Boliviano de Ciencias through the opinion of the authors. The methodology consisted in the application of an online questionnaire to the authors of the last three years (2017, 2018 and 2019), and the last semester of 2020. The results show that the journal must improve in international visibility, indexing and speed of peer review, mainly. Most of the authors are satisfied with the editorial process and would re-publish in the journal. Work should be done to improve the general quality of the journal to achieve indexing. Keywords: Survey to authors. Likert scale. Scientific publication.
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