Revistas latinoamericanas e idiomas hegemónicos para su publicación académica en SCOPUS y Web of Science

摘要: This paper presents a descriptive analysis of SCOPUS’ and Web Science’s journal lists, in order to illustrate critically assess the current presence Latin American journals included these mainstream databases their working languages for publication. The latest lists released by both as March 2020 were analyzed terms language country Results show Brazil clearly emerges regional leader, especially WoS’ Science Citation Index Expanded Emerging Sources Index. However, this predominance Brazilian does not entail corresponding relevance Portuguese language. Spanish is predominant journals, Social Sciences Humanities, while identified multilingual tend associate either or with English. combination significantly smaller. calls critical revision state scientific-editorial field linguistic market, well further questioning role English lingua franca academia.