Author: Revista Brasileira De Estudos Urbanos E Regionais

International Metrics Make Latin American Urban Journals Invisible

Graph assembled by the authors showing a comparative overview between countries and indexing data for Brazilian and Latin American scientific journals classified as A1/A2/A3/A4/B1 in the 2013-2016 quadrennium and in Qualis Único.

Study shows how global scientific evaluation criteria disadvantage urban journals from the Global South, reinforcing epistemic inequality in the production and circulation of knowledge. As an alternative, databases such as SciELO and Redalyc have proven to be auspicious in increasing the visibility and recognition of local scientific production. Read More →