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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
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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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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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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
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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. -
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.
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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:
- Register as author
- Consult the Author’s guide for the formatting f your document
- 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)
