History

The PORTES journal (called Aportes from 1990 until 2006) is a publication of the University of Colima through the Pacific Basin Studies Center (CUEICP) and the APEC Study Center (CEAPEC). The journal originated in the founding of the National Network of Researchers on the Pacific Basin in May 1990, the date on which its published its first issue. Since then the journal has had three epochs: the first from 1990 to 1998 with 13 issues, the second from 2001 to 2004 with 8 issues, and the third or current one started in 2007 with 33 issues (March, 2023). Also two special issues were published dedicated to the state of Colima, Mexico: The first published in 2003 and the second in 2007.

From 1990 to 1998, PORTES was also published in English under the name of Mexican Outlook on the Pacific Basin, which spreads the works of Mexican researchers among fellow English-speaking readers. Unfortunately, financial and logistical problems did not allow us to continue with this interesting initiative. The journal, however, was open to colleagues, especially Asians, who speak English. Another of his achievements is having co-published five issues with the Comercio Exterior Journal, published by the Banco de Comercio Exterior de México.

The coordinators of the journal were: Juan González García, Emma Mendoza Martínez, Fernando Alfonso Rivas Mira and the current director of the journal, Angel Licona Michel.

The rectors Fernando Moreno Peña (1989-1997), Carlos Salazar Silva (1997-2005), Miguel Ángel Aguayo López (2005-2012), José Eduardo Hernández Nava (2013-2021) and the current rector Christian Jorge Torres Ortiz Zermeño (2021 -2025) incorporated the journal into the internationalization policy of the University of Colima to gave it their endorsement and support. The directors of Pacific Basin Studies Center: Fernando Alfonso Rivas Mira (1989-1998), Omar Martínez Legorreta (1998-2002) and José Ernesto Rangel Delgado, current director since 2002, were and are directly related to the editorial line and administrative management. Also, the technical and editorial support provided by the General Directorate of Publications of the University of Colima is essential.

The PORTES journal had a content transition, first starting with works for dissemination purposes of papers presented in the National Network of Researchers on the Pacific Basin, to scientific works open to all the academic community. Papers without referees were replaced by refereed ones. The objective of PORTES has been to be one of the specialized mexican journals in the field of Trans-Pacific Relations, for this reason, it is aimed at groups of specialists, scholars and students of careers related to this subject.

More than 80 authors have published in the journal throughout its history, the Latindex, Ebsco Host México and UNAM Class indices have incorporated it into their dissemination systems. All this allows you to maintain the trust of collaborators as well as the exchange and link with specially selected specialized journals.

In the third period, the journal had a change of image on its cover, seeking with this the visual liking of the readers, however,  respecting its traditional format. The official date on which the first digital issue of the journal appears is August 16, 2010, which implies a new stage in the form and substance of the publication.

In conclusion, over the years, PORTES has had improvements in terms of content and form, different coordinators contributed their efforts, rectors, directors and technicians gave it regulations, institutionality and presence, dozens of researchers published their works thus complying with the editorial requirements demanded by institutions such as CONACYT, and the General Directorate of Publications of the University of Colima.