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Welcome to the Journal Portal of the University of Costa Rica

This site provides access to all academic and scientific journals published by the University of Costa Rica. All journals follow the diamond open access model, meaning you can read and download every article freely, with no restrictions or fees.

The portal is managed by the Open Knowledge Office of the Vice Rectorate for Research.

Journals

  • AP

    Actualidades en Psicología

    • Actualidades en Psicología (AP) is an official publication of the University of Costa Rica sponsored by the Psychological Research Institute (IIP, for its initials in Spanish), an entity belonging to the same university. Its objective is to promote scientific production in all fields of psychological science and associated fields, which is achieved via the publication of original and unpublished articles that present results of empirical research, mixed studies, methodological contributions, narrative states of the art, meta-analyses and literature reviews. This freely accessible journal is aimed primarily at students and professionals in the area of psychology and related sciences. The journal publishes in Spanish, English and Portuguese. The journal has been published continuously since 2018; i.e., article are published one at the time until the complete issue is compiled (issue closings are held in June and December).

      The journal’s call for papers is likewise open and permanent; thus, authors are welcome to submit their manuscripts throughout the year.  The submissions should reflect the guidance provided under “Authors Guidelines.” Submission, revision and processing of manuscripts is free of charge.

      The  journal is interested in original research contributions to the psychological sciences, which must respect and adhere to the highest ethical and scientific rules. Current Trends in Psychology seeks to encourage scientific investigation, to promote the discussion of relevant ideas for psychological sciences, and to disseminate professional and academic information relevant to the discipline.

      The journal currently ranks high in the UCRIndex. Furthermore, it is indexed in:

      • PsycINFO , la base de datos de la Asociación Americana de Psicología
      • SCIELO , Biblioteca Científica Electrónica en Línea-Brasil
      • REDALYC , red de revistas para América Latina, el Caribe, Portugal y España
      • PEPSIC , Revistas Electrónicas de Psicología – Brasil
      • DIALNET , base de datos de revistas españolas y latinoamericanas
      • DOAJ , Directorio de revistas de acceso abierto; Universidad de Lund, Suecia
      • LATINDEX , Sistema regional de información en línea para revistas científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal
      • REDBIB , Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico
      • CLASE , Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
      • Google Académico
      • ESCI (Índice de citas de fuentes emergentes)
      • SCOPUS
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    Agronomía Mesoamericana

    Agronomía Mesoamericana journal is a continuous publication with an annual open issue that begins in January and closes in December. Edited in the Universidad de Costa Rica, its objective is to disseminate original scientific information in Spanish or English language, through the publication of articles, short communications, technical notes and literature reviews, related with food and agriculture sciences from anywhere in the world, emphasized in tropical and subtropical zones. 

    Agronomía Mesoamericana implements interoperability protocols that allow the journal to be harvested by other content distribution systems. It supports this process through the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows the transfer of scientific and open access digital resources. URL OAI-PMH https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/agromeso/oai

     

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    Cuadernos de Antropología

    Cuadernos de Antropología (Anthropology Notebooks in English) is an academic journal of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of research in Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and related fields. Since its founding in 1982, it has promoted scientific knowledge focused on Central America, southern Mexico, the insular Caribbean, and northwestern Colombia, establishing itself as a regional reference for researchers, scholars, and individuals interested in these areas.

    Published biannually in open-access digital format, the journal operates under a double-blind peer-review system, ensuring academic rigor. Additionally, it follows a continuous publication model, allowing for the submission and publication of articles year-round.

    All content is freely and immediately available under the Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), promoting the non-commercial dissemination of knowledge.

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    Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia

    Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia from Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de America Central (CIHAC) specializes in History, in the analysis of historical trajectories from different theoretical and methodological perspectives and its purpose is to publish original research, submitted to peer review, to build new historical knowledge. It has been published since 1999, with a semi-annual periodicity in continuous modality (On-Line First Publication) and has the support of the School of History  of the University of Costa Rica.

    This publication space is aimed at Central American and Central Americanist researchers in the different branches of history, the university population, and all those readers and authors interested in the presentation and evaluation of scientific articles on Costa Rican, Central American, Caribbean, Latin American, North American and global/world historiography. The publication is also encouraged in specific fields of historiography such as gender history, economic history, history of power and memory, colonial history, environmental history, history of science, history of inequality, marginality, and poverty, social history, among others, in addition to articles of a theoretical-methodological nature. It also publishes primary, unpublished and sources, book reviews, as well as databases that allow the approach to new research questions.

    Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia, ISSN electronic: 1409-469X, is a work under:

    Licencia de Creative Commons  Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivative Work 4.0 International license.

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    e-Ciencias de la Información

    e-Ciencias de la Información is a free and open access electronic journal of a scientific-academic nature; it belongs to the School of Library and Information Science, whose publisher is the University of Costa Rica. For more information click here.

    This journal is indexed in international databases and repositories. 

    More information: revista.ebci@ucr.ac.cr

    URL OAI-PMH: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/eciencias/oai

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    Management of Education

    Gestión de la Educación is a digital journal consisting on a twice a year publication of academic professional topics, directed to the education sector, specifically in the field of educational administration, with emphasis on the analysis and discussion of theoretical and methodological work of educational organizations in their management processes of education.

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    Ingeniería

    Ingeniería. Revista de la Universidad de Costa Rica, published for first time on 1991, is an official publication sponsored by the Engineering Research Institute (INII) from the University of Costa Rica, and the first engineering journal in the region. Its main purpose is the publication of original and unpublished articles in both English and Spanish about biosystems, civil, electric, industrial, mechanic, chemical, topographic, and similar engineering fields. This free access journal aims primarily at national and international engineering professionals.  Ingeniería Journal uses the assessment process called “double-blind peer review”, which is carried out by national and international reviewers. The articles are published in two semesterly issues with the Online First Publication, allowing an ongoing circulation of information.

    Ingeniería. Revista de la Universidad de Costa Rica, is distributed under a Atribución-NoComercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Please consult the conditions of this license in these links.

    Electronic ISSN : 2215-2652

    OAI-PMH URL: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/ingenieria/oai

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    Pensamiento Actual

    Pensamiento Actual is a biannual, open-access electronic journal published by the Research Coordination Office of the Western Campus of the University of Costa Rica. Its main objective is to disseminate scientific, academic, and artistic work developed both within the Western Campus and by the national and international academic community.

    The journal welcomes original and high-quality contributions, including scientific articles, academic essays, artistic productions, and other innovative proposals submitted by researchers, educators, artists, and writers of all identities. Pensamiento Actual does not charge any publication fees to those who contribute as authors.

    Each volume consists of two issues: the first runs from June 30 to December 15, and the second from December 16 to June 29 of the following year.

    All publications must be original and are checked using Turnitin® plagiarism detection software. The journal also adheres to a strict code of editorial ethics.

    The journal accepts submissions in the following areas of knowledge:

    • Philosophy, Arts, and Letters

    • Natural Sciences

    • Social Sciences

    • Education

    • Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology

    Indexed journal in:

    Academic directories, catalogs, and databases:

     

     

     

        

     

    Estamos indexados en: | ESCENA. Revista de las artes

    Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Tecnología - Recursos de información de Acceso Abierto

     

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    Pensar en Movimiento: Revista de Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud

    PENSAR EN MOVIMIENTO: Revista de Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud (Thinking in / about motion: Journal on Exercise and Health Sciences): is an international scientific journal from the School of Physical Education and the Human Movement Science Research Center of the University of Costa Rica, addressed to all professionals and specialized readers in this area. Its goal is to promote universal research on Human Movement and Health Sciences.

    Key words: Exercise Physiology, Biomechanics, Sports Psychology, Sports Nutrition, Motor Learning, Sports Medicine.

    OAI protocol from this journal: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/pem/oai

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    Población y Salud en Mesoamérica

    Población y Salud en Mesoamérica is an academic electronic journal, published biannually and of continued publication by the Centro Centroamericano de Población and whose publisher is the University of Costa Rica. The main objective of this publication is the dissemination of research on population from demographic perspective, and public health. This journal is registered and indexed in important international indexes. E-mail contact: revista.ccp@ucr.ac.cr

    URL OAI-PMH: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/psm/oai

  • Revista Científica Administrar lo Público

    The scientific journal Administrar lo Público (ALP journal), ISSN 2215-6909, offers a set of features for reflection, analysis and in-depth study of topics in the discipline such as customs administration and international trade, public administration, administrative contracting and public procurement, internal control , open government data, diplomacy, evaluation of government programs, performance evaluation, public finances and budgets, public management, among others. This leads to research on areas of vital significance for the transformation of public management. Particularly within a context of dizzying and accelerated changes in society related to innovations that must be addressed by the public sector, in ways that they satisfy social, economic and, above all, human needs.
     
    As a part of the scientific journals of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), this journal holds the main institutional aspirations of research, teaching and social extention. By offering academic, technical and scientific solutions and discussions in an area that affects all dimensions of development, the journal enhances the transformative and dialectical capacity between society, communities and organizations with the University, thus contributing to generate knowledge and resources for the progress of the country.
     
    The ALP journal offers the possibility of encouraging academic production in the discipline of Public Administration from multiple approaches and areas of teachers and researchers in the social sciences, economic sciences, education and law, as well as ensuring that generations of undergraduate students and postgraduates with outstanding academic works can make indigenous contributions to increase the body of knowledge in this disciplinary area, it represents a joint opportunity to publicize the work that is carried out nationally and internationally to manage the public in a better way.
     
    Managing the Public is a production of the Public Administration Research and Training Center (CICAP), a UCR Center that generates, transfers and disseminates knowledge to improve the management capacity of the public, through research and social action, contributing to well-being. general of society.
     
    It is a research center attached to the Vice-Rector's Office for Research that was founded in 1976 with the idea of strengthening the processes of the national, regional and local Public Administration. Nowadays, it generates, transfers and disseminates knowledge to improve public management capacity, through basic and applied research processes, as well as teaching extension activities within the framework of social action, in order to contribute to the quality of life of the people.
     
    Since 2013, CICAP has been producing the series Administrar lo Público, as a periodic publication that compiles scientific articles, case studies and systematizations of interventions, among other scientific manuscripts in the area of social and economic sciences, with particular emphasis on Public Administration, through nine consecutive editions. In 2023 the series became the academic journal Revista Científica Administrar lo Público and published its first volume in 2024. It is an electronic, refereed and open-access journal.
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    Revista de Biología Tropical

    Revista de Biología Tropical / International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation, es una revista de acceso abierto completo de la Universidad de Costa Rica centrada en la biología tropical y la conservación. Todos los números, desde 1953 hasta la actualidad, están disponibles para su descarga gratuita. aquí.

    NUESTRO ENFOQUE (Objetivo)

    Nuestra revista publica artículos científicos que aumentan nuestra comprensión de la biología, la conservación y las ciencias biomédicas de la vida en los trópicos.

    Los criterios de selección son la cantidad y calidad de la nueva información y su interés potencial tanto para el público en general como para los especialistas. Los ecosistemas estudiados, o al menos los organismos, deben ser tropicales.

    COBERTURA TEMÁTICA
    Números regulares

    Damos preferencia a artículos de fondo que incluyen preguntas de estudio comprobables, por ejemplo, estudios con un diseño experimental que evalúe factores que influyen en variables biológicas, o estudios que explican los mecanismos subyacentes a fenómenos biológicos o biomédicos como, por ejemplo, el comportamiento o la fisiología. Los estudios de campo deben presentar patrones temporales o espaciales. También damos la bienvenida a estudios sistemáticos o filogenéticos por encima del nivel de especies, metanálisis y estudios bibliométricos que examinan críticamente lo que se conoce y lo que queda por hacer en cualquier campo de la biología tropical.

    Los artículos de revisión se publican en su mayoría por invitación del Consejo Editorial a autoridades reconocidas. Otros especialistas interesados en enviar una revisión primero deben enviar un esquema de manuscrito titulado al correo biologia.tropical@ucr.ac.cr. Las propuestas aceptadas reciben la misma evaluación que los manuscritos regulares.

    Todas las revisiones y metanálisis deben identificar y llenar los vacíos en el conocimiento, presentar avances metodológicos y proponer futuras direcciones de investigación.

    Nota sobre datos antiguos: Si su trabajo se basa en datos antiguos, recomendamos compararlos con datos más recientes, o usarlos como parte de meta-análisis, para darles mayor valor. Los estudios basados en datos recopilados hace más de seis años deben incluir una justificación de por qué siguen siendo de interés y, en el caso de estudios de campo, deben presentar patrones espaciales o tendencias temporales de importancia histórica. El Comité Editorial evalúa la validez de los métodos y la relevancia de los resultados antes de enviar el manuscrito a revisión.

    La revista ahora cuenta con un número al año (publicación continua del 1 de enero al 31 de diciembre) y publica los artículos la misma semana en la que se tiene disponible una versión editada. Hasta 2021 publico cuatro números regulares por año: número 1 (enero-marzo), número 2 (abril-junio), número 3 (julio-septiembre) y número 4 (octubre-diciembre).

    No publicamos notas; comunicaciones cortas; listas de especies; nueva especie única; extensiones de rango; nuevos registros y otros estudios preliminares o breves; o informes técnicos altamente especializados basados en protocolos (por ejemplo, estudios agrícolas, forestales, bioquímicos, microbiológicos, acuícolas, pesqueros o similares que solo aplican técnicas bien conocidas a casos particulares de interés local).

    NÚMEROS ESPECIALES

    Los números especiales financiados por organizaciones de investigación se aceptan después de la aprobación del Comité Editorial. Pueden contener una diversidad de tipos de informes, incluidos artículos breves, nuevos registros, nuevas descripciones de especies, listas de verificación, informes técnicos, etc. Para publicar un número especial, comuníquese con biologia.tropical@ucr.ac.cr para obtener una estimación de costos.

    PÚBLICO META

    Personas investigadoras con interés en el estudio de todos los campos de la biología tropical.

    PORQUÉ PUBLICAR EN LA REVISTA DE BIOLOGÍA TROPICAL?

    • Totalmente indexada: Revista de Biología Tropical está incluida en Science Citation Index Expanded, REDIB Journals Ranking, Current Contents, Google Scholar, Biological Abstracts y alrededor de 50 otros índices internacionales.
    • Rápida decisión y publicación (7 días para la primera decisión, 5-7 meses para aceptación definitiva, 6-8 meses desde el envío hasta la publicación).
    • Razonable: utilizamos un sistema de doble ciego para una evaluación justa de los manuscritos.
    • Alto impacto, no solo por su índice de citas, sino también porque es muy leído en países con la mayor biodiversidad tropical, lo que garantiza que su artículo tendrá el mayor impacto en la conservación de la biodiversidad tropical. Factor de impacto de Web of Science de 0.6. Factor de impacto en SJR de 0.28 (Q2).
    • Un trato personalizado por parte de nuestro dedicado personal.
    • Juntas editoriales y científicas de clase mundial.
    • Acceso abierto: Todos los artículos, desde el primer número en 1953 hasta el presente, están disponibles gratuitamente en línea (Archivos), por lo que es más probable que sean citados que los artículos detrás de muros de pago.
    • PUBLICACIÓN GRATUITA: Cada artículo recibe 10 páginas de espacio libre en formato PDF, que es suficiente para la mayoría de los artículos científicos. Se pueden publicar páginas adicionales diagramadas en el pdf a $50 cada una. Material complementario como textos adicionales, figuras, tablas, gráficos y bases de datos con un costo de $60. Póngase en contacto con biologia.tropical@ucr.ac.cr para obtener más información.
    OAI-PMH: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/RBT/oai
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    Revista Educación - Journal of Education

    Journal of Education was created during by Dean Dr. Jesús Ugalde Víquez, being the seventh to be created in 1976, in the University of Costa Rica as the publishing entity, and is published by the Faculty of Education. The aim of the Journal of Education of the University of Costa Rica is to disseminate research and promote academic reflection referred to Education. It provides coverage for a wide variety of themes: access to education, the right to quality, better learning, teaching conditions, epistemological reflections, gender and others.

    It is directed, both nationally and internationally, to a scientific and professional community and to any population or individual interested in its subject matter.
    The journal receives national and international contributions.
    It is published every six months. The first issue is published in January and runs from January to June; the second issue is published in July and runs from July to December.
    To publish, see the Guide for Submission and Statement of Originality.

  • Revista Estudios

    Revista Estudios is a free, open access publication of the School of General Studies of the University of Costa Rica. The journal is published every six months. Its objective is the publication and dissemination of inter and transdisciplinary academic and scientific production that includes a humanistic approach. Traditionally, the journal has been interested in the humanistic areas of philosophy, literature and history, specifically Costa Rican history, Latin American history, universal history and cultural history. 

    This publication is oriented to students, teachers, researchers and the general public. Estudios journal publishes academic articles, thematic dossiers, reviews, biographies, documents of historical interest and lectures related to the topics of interest of the magazine. The journal receives submissions of original and unpublished papers in Spanish and English.

    Revista Estudios has several sections. The peer-reviewed sections include the academic articles and the thematic dossiers. The non-reviewed sections include biographies, bibliographical reviews, documents of historical interest and lectures related to the topics covered in the journal. 

    Revista Estudios does not request or charge any economic fee for the reception, processing or publication of articles.

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    Revista geológica de América central

    The Central American Journal of Geology (RGAC by its acronym in Spanish) was created in 1984 at the Central American School of Geology and is an official scientific publication of the University of Costa Rica. Its objective is to communicate geoscience research, both basic and applied, with focus on Costa Rica, Central America and the Caribbean. Its target audience is the scientific community, professionals in geoscience, and the general public interested in topics regarding geology. It is published twice a year for the periods January-June and July-December. Manuscript submission and publication are continuous for these periods.

    The journal’s content is of open access and free of charge, all of the past articles are available on the Archives and are protected by a non-commercial attribution license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED), which allows sharing (copy and redistribution of material by any means and formats) and adapting (mixing, transforming and creating based on material). Thus, the authors are free to share their published content in any data repository or website.

    If you are interested in publishing on the RGAC:

    1. Register as author
    2. Consult the Author’s guide for the formatting f your document
    3. Fill out the Declaration of originality
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    Reflexiones Journal

     Reflexiones is a multidisciplinary Journal of the Faculty of Social Sciences edited by the University of Costa Rica, with a semiannual periodicity (january-june and july-december), and strives for academic reflection on the world social reality, in particular, the one of Latin America. It constitutes a space for knowledge production that contributes in the Social Sciences field. The articles it publishes are theoretically and methodologically grounded and are the product of research and academic work. The target audience includes teachers, researchers and student community on a national and international level.

    Reflexiones Journal areas of interest:

    Areas of interest

    Subtopics

     

     

    Social inequalities

     

    - Disabilities

    - Violence     

    - Economic inequality and poverty

    - Economic power groups and elites    

    - Racism

    - Xenophobia

    - Social exclusion

    Society and Environment

     

    - Land use and urban planning

    - Cities and urbanization processes

    - Rural spaces and rurality

    - Socio-environmental and territorial conflicts

    - Risk and disasters

    - Tourism

    - Nature conservation

    - Global warming and climate change

    - Natural commons and extractivism    

    Power and political processes

     

    - Public policy and the state

    - Civil society

    - Political economy

    - Political regimes and systems

    - Electoral processes

    - Human Rights

    - Social control

    - Public space

    - Citizen security

    Social Communication

    - Political communication and public opinion

    - Organizational communication and public relations

    - Digital communication and society

    - Communicative citizenship, media and democracy

    - Narratives and communication

    - Communication for development

    Indigenous peoples

     

    - Indigenous peoples

    - Indigenous peoples

    - Ethnicity and power

    Social movements and political participation

     

    - Repertoires of political action

    - Social protest

    - Political art

    - Organizational processes

    Genders, feminisms and diversities

     

    - Feminist epistemologies

    - Sexual and gender identities

    - Gender-based discrimination

    - Sexism and gender gaps

    Migrations, human mobility and border populations

     

    - Migration policy

    - Trajectories and displacement

    - Forced displacement

    - Refuge and political asylum

    - Cross-border dynamics

    - Migration and internal displacement

    Social Science Methodology

     

    - Action research processes

    - Participatory methodologies

    - Reflections on methodology in social research

    Contemporary subjectivities

     

    - Construction of subjectivities

    - Culture and subjectivation processes

    - Identities

    - Affectivities    

    - Corporealities

    Heritage

     

    - Heritage policies

    - Heritage management

    - Tangible heritage

    - Intangible heritage

    History, historiography and historical memory

    - Collective memories

    Science, Technology and Society              

     

    Theory in Social Sciences

     

    URL de OAI-PMH: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/reflexiones/oai

    About the publishing process and its publications, the Reflexiones Journal uses the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International)