Editing and publishing in academic review: the case of the Revista de historia americana y argentina of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (1956-2022)

Abstract

In recent decades, scientific evaluation systems have privileged the publication of articles in journals indexed in international and regional databases. This trend generated a multiplication of scientific journals in the social sciences and humanities, which have the institutional support of public universities for their maintenance. In turn, it implied a challenge of adaptation and updating in editorial management for those journals with a certain disciplinary tradition that were trying to insert themselves into these new academic circuits. Based on this context, the objective of this article is to analyze the trajectory of Revista de historia americana y argentina (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), with a view to identifying changes and continuities in its editorial management, orientations themes and the institutional affiliations of their authors. The analysis showed that the publication was a space for the dissemination of the research of the professors of the house of studies to later break this trend and encourage the participation of authors from other national and, recently, foreign institutions. In turn, the published themes account for trends, debates and discussions in regional and national historiography.