Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos

Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos (AECA) is an open access academic journal established in 1974 and edited by the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales of the University of Costa Rica. Anuario is an continuous publication. It has an electronic version.

Nowadays it is one of the few publications about Central America with a local perspective. AECA includes topics and analyses of the present and past Central American history and the societies that constitute it.

Anuario is an international journal. It publishes articles, essays, and reviews both in English and Spanish from an interdisciplinary wide range of social sciences and culture from inside and outside the region. The journal’s main goal is to contribute to the understanding and comprehension of the Central American societies from many perspectives: economic, social, political, and cultural. Its purpose is to obtain scientific and academic explanations to local problems and its characterizations due to its traditions, material or immaterial culture, population and ethnic groups, gender and the environment, among others.

This publication furnishes a DOI for every article; it is financed by the University of Costa Rica. AECA is directed towards people interested in the current and historical region of Central America. At this time, the journal is indexed in SciELO, Redalyc, Dialnet, DOAJ, Latindex, REDIB, and others.

Interoperability registry:

The Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos uses the following registry OAI-PMH  https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/oai