The ''Latin American Research Review'' is a quarterly

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covering research on

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...

and the

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. It was established in 1965 by the

Latin American Studies Association The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest association for scholars of Latin American studies. Founded in 1966, it has over 12,000 members, 45 percent of whom reside outside the United States (36 percent in Latin America and the C ...

(LASA) and is published by LASA's publishing arm, the Latin America Research Commons. The

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is Aníbal Pérez Liñán (

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). Articles are published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. The journal articles are published only electronically, in an

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format. In 2020, LARR's associate editors are Mónica Espinosa Arango (

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia), Fabrice Lehoucq (book review editor, University of North Carolina), Claudia Ferman (documentary film review editor, University of Richmond), José Molinas Vega (

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, Instituto Desarrollo, Paraguay), Michel Gobat (

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), Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel (

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and

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, University of Miami), Jana Morgan (

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and

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, University of Tennessee), and Xóchitl Bada (

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, University of Illinois at Chicago). During 2018, LARR received 314 manuscripts and 59 additional manuscripts during the first quarter of 2019. Nearly 60% of them are in the social sciences (sociology, politics and international relations, and economics), whereas slightly over 40 percent originating in the humanities (anthropology, history, or literature and cultural studies). However, of 42 research papers published in 2018, 55 percent were in the humanities (anthropology, history, literature and cultural studies) and 45 percent in the social sciences (economics, political science and international relations, sociology), with literature and political science being the most prominent subjects in each category. LARR also published 27 book review essays and 2 documentary film review essays. The journal's acceptance rate for 2018 was 19%. Rejections after internal editorial review (i.e., desk rejects) comprised 56% of the decisions and rejections after external review (based on referees’ reports) represented the remaining 25%. On average, it took 37 days to reject manuscripts after internal review, 182 days (about six months) to reject manuscripts after peer review, and 367 days (about a year) to accept articles for publication after revisions. In 2018, around 43% of the authors were women; 20% of the authors were located in Latin America, 10% in Europe, and the remaining in the United States and Canada. Irrespective of the manuscripts’ origins, 60 of 72 published articles were submitted in English, 8 in Spanish, and 4 in Portuguese. The journal also disseminates its articles to a broader audience through th
LARR-Panoramas blog
hosted by the University of Pittsburgh.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Social & Behavioral Sciences,

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, and the

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. In 2018, LARR's impact factor (Web of Science index) was 0.676, whereas its CiteScore (elaborated by Scopus) was 0.74. Its 5-year impact factor was 0.685.

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