The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has published the ninth call for the Evaluation of the Editorial and Scientific Quality of Spanish Academic Journals. On the FECYT website you can consult the Participation Procedure and the Evaluation Guide to apply for the call. The deadline for applications opened on 10 March and will close on 10 April 2025. The provisional list of journals will be published in July 2025.
The main new features of this edition are:
- In order to renew the FECYT Seal, it will be compulsory to take part in the process and pass the evaluation of the editorial quality criteria.
- The validity of the Seal of Quality and the Mention of Good Practice in Gender Equality has been extended from one to two years.
- The visibility and impact indicators have been disaggregated.
- The sources of measurement have been changed, in line with open science practices.
- New editorial quality assessment criteria for recommended compliance have been added.
- The evaluation of the gender perspective has been improved.
In addition, for this edition, a plugin compatible with OJS 3.2x and 3.3 has been developed, designed to automate the downloading of the documentation required in the accreditation process for obtaining and/or renewing the FECYT quality seal. This plugin is already available for the whole community at this link, and it is already available for all UAB journals managed with OJS.
The UAB journals that obtained the Quality Seal in the previous call (eighth) were: Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature, Dante e l'Arte, Rubrica Contemporanea and Tradumàtica. In addition to the recognition of editorial and scientific quality, the journals Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature and Tradumàtica obtained the Mention of Good Practices in Gender Equality.
Currently, the UAB has a total of 26 accredited journals.
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