The Research and Special Projects Center (CIPE for its initials in Spanish) invites academics, researchers, and specialists on issues of political science, government, public policy and public administration to publish their research developments in its Journal, OPERA (ISSN impreso: 1657-8651; ISSN digital: 2346-2159). The Journal is attached to the Public Administration Policy, Implementation, and Results Observatory. OPERA has national and international circulation and it is targeted at students, researchers and professionals interested in this subject. It has been published annually since 2001 and twice a year since 2014.

OPERA Journal is indexed in the following rankings and databases: Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (Redalyc), Emerging Sources Citation Index, Cengage Learning, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE), Dialnet, Fuente Académica EBSCO, Red Ibero

americana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB), Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and Open Journal System.
 
OPERA seeks to contribute to the production and socialization of academic knowledge in political sciences, with special emphasis on government, public policy and public administration, contributing to the contemporary academic and political debate. In this sense, the objective is the publication of scientific work from research and theoretical reflection. Work on issues that are in the research lines being carried out by the OPERA Research Group shall be given preference. The research lines are the following: 1) Public Administration, Public Policies and Governance; 2) Conflict, peace, and security; 3) Political and Electoral Processes, and 4) Sustainable and Territorial Development, and 5) Theory and History of Political Thought.