The Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (RHE-JILAEH), published in the Figuerola Institute of Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) has begun to be published this year by Cambridge University Press, the most prestigious publishing house for scientific writing.
RHE-JILAEH is the only bilingual review (Spanish-English) of the 210 academic journals (“peer reviewed”) which Cambridge University Press (CUP) publishes and distributes for the world market. This publisher will assume the international marketing and distribution of the journal as of issue 01 of 2010 until the end of 2016.
The change in orientation was a matter that had been under consideration by the publication’s directors for several years. “We were convinced that long term plans to stay in a closed market with a national publisher, in terms of subscribers as well as top quality research articles, was a strategy doomed to failure”, the RHE-JILAEH Editor, Antonio Tena, a UC3M Professor, pointed out.
Publishing with CUP represents a qualitative leap in the international increase of the journal. Tena continued, “Quantitatively it means entering into the international digital distribution of journals by “packages”, as well as a much more efficient international marketing strategy”. In quantitative terms, it means that as of the beginning of 2010, the current number of subscribers will quadruple, signifying much more promising future perspectives for presence and growth in the academic market.
A publisher with the highest standards
The requirements for publishing a journal by Cambridge University Press are extremely rigorous. The Revista was subjected to a process of scrutiny and academic evaluation which took into account its recent inclusion in the Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index, which administers the most important scientific databases in the world. For an international publisher to be attractive, in addition to the academic prestige of the journal and the editorial board itself, other market variables must be taken into account. “During negotiations we considered the value of our initial stock of subscribers, the perspectives for expansion in the academic market in Latin American studies in the US, the Iberian Peninsula and in some Asian markets, as well as the growth and political stability of Latin American itself, and as such, the greater potential for subscribers”, Professor Tena concluded.
La Revista de Historia Económica was started in 1983 and it is the oldest of the economic history publications in Spanish. In 2006, its second era as a bilingual review began when it was published by the Figuerola Institute of Universidad Carlos III of Madrid under the name Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (RHE-JILAEH). During this new period it has aimed to increase the prestige attained over its last quarter of a century in existence and to renew its commitment to excellence in dealing with on-going international debate through a greater opening up to the international scientific community, as is stated in its website. It publishes research articles on economic history, the history of economic thought, and all those areas of economics related to long term analysis. The geographical area of its articles fundamentally comprises the Iberian Peninsula and Ibero-America, as well as wider areas which include the former.
Cambridge University Press is the oldest and most important publising house in the world. Its prestige in academic publishing and in the social sciences has grown steadily since it published its first book in 1584, and at present it has 1,800 employees and 60 offices which distribute printed and electronic material in 120 countries.
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