Editorial transparency in Mexican scientific journals on Education: Towards a comprehensive management of editorial policies in scientific periodicals

The main objective of this article is to study the publishing transparency within the 18 Mexican Education journals indexed in the CONACYT’s Classification System of Mexican Journals of Science and Technology. The analysis is based on the verification of total, partial or null compliance with 15 criteria defined by the authors based on the review of Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (2018), published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and of Guidelines for authors and translators of scientific articles published in English (2018), proposed by the European Association of Science Editors (EASE). Among the results obtained are the following: only one of the 18 journals analyzed meets the 15 established criteria; 5 publications present high publishing transparency by meeting 14 criteria, and 2 journals presented the lowest compliance with publishing transparency criteria, both with 9. The analysis concludes by warning about the need for publishing transparency to be a mandatory compliance standard for indexing or permanence in publication systems such as CONACYT.