Colombian journals of anthropology and social sciences in times of measurements.

Las revistas colombianas de antropología y ciencias sociales en tiempos de mediciones.

In an editorial note published not long ago, the former editor of the journal Antípoda (Universidad de los Andes), Professor Mónica Espinosa (2015), described the editorial work in the magazine as the result of a tension between two poles. The first, of the plurality, marked by the growing internal diversity of the discipline; and the second, of the measurement, characterized by what he defined as the “current climate in which research and publication activities are carried out in the social sciences”, in which certain measurements are naturalized as a way of taking the pulse of The quality of the scientific publication. Thus, on the one hand, the editor faces an increasingly complex and diverse field of knowledge, while on the other he must pay attention to the mechanisms, mostly foreign, that promise to determine the quality of his publication. It is therefore a matter of publishing in "measurement times", with the task still pending to reflect more vigorously on the measurement as a process and as a transforming mechanism of the reality that it intends to measure. It is enough to take a brief look at the existing literature on the consolidation of standards and qualifications to understand that what is at stake is not only the measurement of the quality of our publications, but the editorial practices at all levels. As Professor Espinosa puts it well, we are all in excess or by default "caught in a situation that should merit deeper reflections", in addition to concerted actions between universities, areas of knowledge and publishers.