It was the first time that part of the team of the journal “CUBO, A Mathematical Journal” of Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) participated in the Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, which took place in Toronto, Canada, this year.
Each year, editors-in-chief, associate and executive editors, analysts and editorial assistants of well-known scientific journals from different parts of the world come together at this meeting to address the current state of scientific publishing and the specific challenges of this important task, in order to promote a responsible and effective dissemination of science.
The representatives of UFRO in this meeting were the managing editor Dr. Mauricio Godoy Molina, and Ignacio Castillo Bello, who is in charge of editorial production. They both participated within the project FP210007 “Optimisation of the editorial process and improvement of the international visibility of the journals CUBO, A Mathematical Journal and Perspectivas de la Comunicación”, financed by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).
“Some of the objectives that motivated us to participate in this meeting were to share experiences with professional editors from some of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals in different fields of knowledge, and to contextualise the work of the CUBO team with respect to the latest trends and standards established and developed by the world’s leading scientific editorial teams,” Dr. Godoy explained.
As part of their participation, they also presented a poster with a preliminary analysis of the positioning of publications of original mathematical research in journals based in Latin America, with special emphasis on quality standards and international indexation.
It is worth mentioning that the mathematical journal CUBO is part of the prestigious Web of Science (WoS) since 2022 and of the international database Scopus since 2020, two milestones that reflect the important development of this journal of UFRO. According to the editors of CUBO and their presentation at the meeting, this journal is one of only seven Latin American mathematical journals that meets all international quality requirements for these databases.
“In addition, we had a collaborative and strategic work meeting with Javad Mashreghi, a full professor at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin and former president of the Canadian Mathematical Society,” added Dr. Mauricio Godoy, confirming that this outstanding researcher will also be part of the international editorial team of the journal CUBO. “This collaborative work will definitely be crucial to position our journal even more in the field of mathematics at the international level.”
The engineer Ignacio Castillo was equally enthusiastic about their participation, the new knowledge acquired and the new contacts. “This meeting, which brings together editors and publishers from different fields of science, motivates us to further strengthen our journal, and to give it greater visibility. The exchange of experiences was very enriching and helps us to make our work even more professional.”
In this context, the journal makes significant continuous progress in its international consolidation, an effort that started in 1985 and has developed over the years, thanks to the work of a team of passionate mathematicians of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the Faculty of Engineering and Science at Universidad de La Frontera.
Written by: Daphne Bormann Parada
