Editorial: 60th anniversary of the foundation of ESAN and first special section on business economics in Ibero-America

Abstract

With great excitement, we have begun the year 2023 by celebrating the entry of the Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science (JEFAS) in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) of the core collection of the Web of Science (WoS). In addition, to reinforce its evaluation of impact criteria, WoS has requested the entry of JEFAS from its 2020 issues, which are already available in the core collection.Likewise, JEFAS achieved a CiteScore of 4.8 at Scopus last year (2022), doubling its previous CiteScore of 2.4 (2021). This is a great happiness because it positions JEFAS in the Top 30 of the world's best Open-Access (OA)-indexed journals in the category of economics, econometrics and finance, ranking 2nd in Ibero-america and 1st in Latin America. This step forward would not have been possible without the joint effort of an entire editorial team highly committed to education and academic research, a commitment that is an essential value in the life of ESAN. Indeed, this recognition involves the history of ESAN institutions, authorities and decision-makers, as well as editorial members, professors, researchers, authors and reviewers from different countries and continents, who have committed themselves and ultimately left a legacy through our scientific journal.This new achievement comes hand in hand with the 60th anniversary of our institution, the ESAN Graduate School of Business, whose history exemplifies a nourished teachinglearning relationship. History of our journal is also a prominent part, always promoting the labour of professional researchers in the areas of business economics, econometrics, finance and administrative sciences.The arrival of papers on our platform is continuous, and the editorial team works on selecting and filtering articles that meet the journal's scope. Thanks to this work and the contribution of prestigious reviewers to achieve the appropriate publication level, today we can present volume 28, issue 55, comprised of two sections. The first part makes up the regular issue, bringing together four papers, and the second part is a first special section, "Business Economics in Ibero-America", with a selection of seven articles.

Editorial: ESAN's 60th anniversary, second special section on business economics in Ibero-America and editorial transition

“…We celebrated it with the first quartiles (Q1) in Scopus, SJR and now JCR, forming part of the Core Collection of Web of Science in the Economy category. And this year, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of our founding institution, the ESAN Graduate School of Business, including two special sections on business economics from Ibero-America (Salcedo and Mongrut, 2023). For these reasons, we start with the regular articles and then with second special section of the Ibero-American papers (Part II), closing the ESAN's 60 anniversary year.…”