Authors' resilience in scientific publications and its impact on research quality

Abstract

The competition to publish nowadays has become fierce, the performance indicators with which professors and researchers are measured worldwide has driven authors to propose research in scientific journals at a faster pace, since scientific journals seek a higher quality in their scientific publications in order to disseminate verifiable, rigorous, clear and accurate knowledge to their reading communities, which leads to a great responsibility, to communicate science.

This responsibility is supported by high levels of demands that result in the establishment of substantial suggestions for the improvement of proposals and/or high percentages of rejections by the editorial teams and their collaborating referees. All of the above undoubtedly produces uncertainty in authors who try to publish their findings in this type of journals.

When publishing becomes increasingly complex and the expected results do not arrive and the response times vary in each journal, the true character of the authors becomes evident, many are irritable, upset and even refuse; others show defeat, so they relegate and even give up their projects. Here we will talk about those authors capable of taking advantage of high levels of demand to strengthen their resilience and scientifically strengthen their research before and after applying to scientific journals.

Because it is necessary to inspire the world, a world that is difficult to navigate and that needs more researchers who study new realities and contexts, venture into new ways of doing science, are committed to the dissemination of new scientific knowledge, those who turn difficulties into more energy to bring information to all, those who leave generations of relief.

Definitely yes, complying with the high scientific quality standards such as: research data; ethical and bioethical statements in scientific research, authorship and conflicts of interest; scientific method, approach and scope, others that impact journals require, together with the form required by each journal: citation standards, structure, article template, submission data and metadata, is increasingly complex and difficult. However, all this level of demand can become resilience, especially when we look at the opportunity to improve the quality of our scientific contributions and the social, economic and/or environmental impact that can be generated.

This is how in our Vol. 44 No. 1 we thank all our resilient authors, who decided to face challenges for the improvement of their research-academic contributions, promoted by the editorial dynamics of Economicas CUC, which seeks the transfer of verifiable scientific knowledge from the method and whose contribution of authors is vital for the achievement of these objectives.
In this particular issue you will find topics of:

1. Economics and Finance:

• Coca Crops: Economics and Violence in Colombian Municipalities 2012 - 2019. Presented by authors Cristian José Arias Barrera, Nicolás Arturo Núñez Gómez and Luis Alfredo Muñoz Velasco; a Scientific and Technological Research article, presented in English, which exposes some factors that determine and explain the presence of coca crops in some municipalities of Colombia during the period 2012 - 2019.
• Economic impact of SARS-COV2 on Ecuadorian banana exports. Written in English by the Ecuadorian author Javier del Cioppo Morstadt; scientific and technological research article that shows an analysis of the behavior of exports and their economic impact during the period before and during the SARS-COV2 global pandemic in 2020.
• Qualities of the accounting practice under the International Financial Reporting Standards-IFRS in the Small and Medium Enterprises of the (Atlántico, Colombia): An ethnographic study. Its authors are Margarita María Contreras Cuentas, Yolmis Nicolas Rojano Alvarado and Jaime Castrillón Cifuentes; they present the results of a scientific and technological research whose scientific contribution was focused on discovering the qualities of accounting practice under IFRS in SMEs in the department of Atlántico, Colombia.
• A Box Jenkins ARIMA model to model and forecast the production of blackberry in Colombia. Scientific and technological research article, written in English and proposed by Susan Elsa Cancino, Giovanni Orlando Cancino Escalante and Daniel Francisco Cancino Ricketts. The purpose was to model and forecast blackberry production in Colombia using a Box-Jenkins ARIMA approach for the period 1992-2023.

• Economic valuation and willingness to pay for water in rural communities. The authors formed a Latin American team (Mexico, Ecuador and Cuba); Adán Guillermo Ramírez García, Irma Cecilia Castillo Escalante, María Fernanda Calderón Vega, Dayana Duffus Miranda and Ana Arelis Pirela Hernández, to propose this scientific and technological research article focused on analyzing the perceptions of the inhabitants of seven communities located in the flora and fauna protection area-APFF of the Sierra de Álamos-Río Cuchujaqui to estimate the economic value of the water resource and determine their willingness to pay.

2. Administration, Organization and Methods:

• Entrepreneurship in post-conflict zones: a literature review. Review article presented by Gabriel Antonio Moyano Londoño that seeks to expose the most important results on the factors that affect entrepreneurship in areas that have been affected by the armed conflict in Colombia.
• Communication and humanization to strengthen the quality of health service providers in Colombia. The authors Hugo Gaspar Hernández Palma, Karina del Carmen Batista Zea and Remedios Catalina Pitre Redondo; show us an article of reflection that allows us to know the level of satisfaction of the users who received attention in the health services in the city of Barranquilla.
• Leadership styles in small textile companies in Peru. Presented by the Peruvian author Ralphi Ricardo Jauregui Arroyo, who contributes an article of scientific and technological research where the leadership styles that are present in the people who make decisions within the small textile companies in Peru are identified. 
• Entrepreneurship learning pilot program: case study in young people from the department of Cauca. Its authors Laura Beatriz Potes Ordoñez, Gineth Magaly Cerón Ríos and Oscar Raúl Sandoval Zúñiga; show the article in English as a case study that focused on implementing a pilot learning program to strengthen entrepreneurship in economically vulnerable youth in the midst of the armed conflict.
• Communities of practice and their strategy according to life cycle stage: systematic review from PRISMA guidelines. Sandra Valbuena Antolinez and Mario Vernaza Trujillo; these authors deliver a review article where they verified the characteristics of the CoPs and their dynamization strategies in their different stages of the life cycle: creation, cohesion, maturity and stability.
• Governance and institutional performance in HEIs: the case of the University of Santander. Daniela Bellon Monsalve and Jossie Esteban Garzon Baquero; who show a case study that analyzes the different uses and meanings of the concept of governance and corporate governance in HEIs.