About Araucaria

Araucaria — Full Profile

Araucaria, in full Araucaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades — the Ibero-American Journal of Philosophy, Politics and the Humanities — is a multidisciplinary, open access scholarly journal of the social sciences and humanities published by the University of Seville in Spain. Its name is the Spanish word for the monkey-puzzle tree, a South American native carried across the Atlantic, and the name fits the journal's purpose: a Spanish university journal whose prevalent object of study is Ibero-American society and history, read together with the great questions of the international community, democracy and peace. Since its first issue in June 1999 it has published original work in philosophy, political science, history and the wider humanities in Spanish, Portuguese and English, on a three-issues-a-year rhythm since 2020, free to read and free to publish in. This profile sets out the verified record — identity, history, scope, editorial arrangements, review, licensing, charges, metrics and submission route — with every figure attributed to the source it came from.

Identity at a Glance

A note on identifiers: the stored JournalsWorld record for this journal listed only the print ISSN, 1575-6823. The journal also has an online ISSN, 2340-2199, recorded by both DOAJ and OpenAlex and used in this profile; the fuller identifier pair is part of the journal's identity and is worth adding to any catalogue record for it, because searches and citations for the online edition run under the second number.

History and Development

The journal's own about page gives the fixed points of its history. Araucaria is edited by the University of Seville; its first number appeared in June 1999; it has been free access throughout in spirit and is recorded in DOAJ with an open access start of 1999; and since 2020 it has appeared three times a year. That makes it one of the longer-lived Spanish university journals of its generation in the humanities and social sciences, founded in the period when Spanish universities were building electronic journal platforms and when Ibero-American academic exchange — between Spain, Portugal and Latin America — was being deliberately strengthened through shared journals in shared languages.

Its development since then follows the professionalisation of that platform model. The journal sits on the University of Seville's scientific journals portal, with the standard apparatus of a modern open journal system: an editorial team page (Redacción), publication guidelines and submission guidelines pages, an archive of past issues, announcements of forthcoming monographic (thematic) issues, an open access policy page, a submissions page, a privacy statement and a contact route. Its about page states that, as a journal of international excellence, it takes its ethical inspiration from the core practices document of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Its DOIs, its DOAJ listing and its presence in OpenAlex and SCImago data give its backfile — more than a thousand works in OpenAlex's count — a durable, citable presence well beyond its home portal.

The thematic shape of the journal has been consistent with its founding brief. Its prevalent object, in its own words, is Ibero-American society and history, held together with the problems of the international community, democracy and peace. Its monographic issues — special dossiers announced in advance on its portal — are a characteristic instrument: they let the journal convene a set of authors around a single question in Ibero-American philosophy, politics or history, and they are a large part of how a generalist humanities journal builds identity without narrowing its scope.

Scope and Subject Coverage

The official description defines Araucaria as a multidisciplinary journal centred on the social sciences and the humanities, editing original and unpublished work in keeping with the diverse current methodological traditions, with Ibero-American society and history as its prevalent object of interest, shared with the interest raised by the great problems of the international community, democracy and peace. Its title names its three pillars — philosophy, politics and the humanities — and its DOAJ record gives its keywords as humanities, history, society and philosophy, with Library of Congress classification across the humanities (AZ20-999), political science (J) and philosophy (B1-5802).

OpenAlex's topic classification for the source at checking time illustrates the range in practice: Historical Studies in Latin America; Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought; International Relations and Foreign Policy; Classical Antiquity Studies; and Classical Philosophy and Thought. Read together, the official statement and the database picture describe a journal in which a study of Latin American historical memory, an essay on early modern political thought, an analysis of foreign policy or democracy, and a piece of classical philosophy can all legitimately appear — provided each speaks to the journal's Ibero-American and humanistic conversation or to the shared international questions it names. That breadth is the journal's character, and authors should respect it in both directions: a highly specialised technical paper with no wider humanistic or Ibero-American bearing will struggle to show fit, and so will a purely local study that never raises its eyes to the journal's wider questions.

Its languages are part of its scope. Spanish, Portuguese and English are its official languages, which makes it a genuine meeting point for the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking scholarly worlds and for Anglophone scholars working on Ibero-American themes. Few humanities journals offer that three-language table, and for Latin American authors in particular it offers publication in a European university journal without translation out of their working language.

Editorial Board and Governance

Araucaria is edited at the University of Seville, which is both its publisher of record in DOAJ and the institution behind its journal portal; DOAJ's institution field likewise names the Universidad de Sevilla. Its editorial team is presented on its Redacción page on the portal, and its direction is a university editorship rather than a commercial one. Individual editors' names are not reproduced in this profile, because team pages change and the portal's current page is the authoritative list. The governance features an author needs are visible on the portal: stated publication guidelines, a submissions policy, an open access policy, a privacy statement, an ethics commitment referencing COPE core practices, and a board page linked from its DOAJ record — the standard, checkable apparatus of a university journal.

Peer Review and Editorial Process

DOAJ records the journal's review model as double anonymous peer review, and its review and submission guidance is set out on its submission guidelines page, linked from the DOAJ record. DOAJ also records a typical publication time of four weeks for this journal — a directory figure that should be read as an indicator of an efficient production rhythm rather than as a promise about any individual manuscript, since review itself, revision and the journal's three-issue calendar all shape the real timetable. Authors submit through the University of Seville portal, following its submission guidelines (Normas de publicación on the portal), and should study those guidelines at the point of submission, since they — not this profile — govern format, length, referencing and the treatment of forthcoming monographic dossiers, for which calls are announced on the portal.

Article Types

The journal's content is the original, unpublished research article and essay in the social sciences and humanities, organised both in open issues and in the monographic thematic dossiers that its portal announces in advance. In a humanities journal of this kind, the recognised forms include the research article reporting an archival, textual or empirical study; the critical and theoretical essay, especially in philosophy and political thought; studies in the history of ideas and in Ibero-American history; and contributions to announced dossiers, which follow the dossier's own call as well as the journal's general guidelines. Book-centred discussion and review material forms part of the ecosystem of such journals; authors interested in contributing anything other than a standard article or dossier paper should confirm the current categories with the editorial team through the portal before writing to a format.

Open Access, Licensing and Charges

Araucaria is free to read and, on the record checked, free to publish in. Its about page describes it as free access (acceso libre); DOAJ records an open access start of 1999, a licence of CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for its articles, no article processing charge and no other charges. One DOAJ field differs from many open access journals and is reported here exactly as recorded: DOAJ records that the author does not retain copyright for this journal (author_retains: false), with the copyright terms linked to its submissions pages. Authors for whom copyright retention is a contractual requirement of their funder or institution should therefore read the journal's current submissions and copyright pages carefully before submitting, since the directory record and the journal's own terms at the time of submission govern. For most authors the practical picture is simple and attractive: an indexed, peer-reviewed university journal with no fee at any stage, read openly in three languages.

Preservation and Identifiers

Identifiers for the journal are: print ISSN 1575-6823 and online ISSN 2340-2199, with ISSN-L 1575-6823 in OpenAlex; article DOIs, recorded in its DOAJ entry as its persistent-identifier scheme; and OpenAlex source record S2738465358 at checking time. Its content is hosted on the University of Seville's scientific journals portal, whose archive holds its issues back to its 1999 foundation. Citations should give the journal's full title or its standard short form, Araucaria, together with the article DOI where one is assigned.

Indexing and Discoverability

The journal is listed in DOAJ, verified in the foreground for this profile from DOAJ's own search API, which returned its full record. OpenAlex likewise records it as a DOAJ journal and indexes its backfile. SCImago data fetched for this profile showed the journal in SCImago's rankings, discussed under Metrics below, which reflects its Scopus coverage; authors should confirm the current position in the Scopus source list if their institution requires it. Its presence on a university portal with DOIs, its listing in Spanish and Ibero-American scholarly infrastructure such as Latindex's regional system (in which University of Seville journals are widely recorded), and its three-language content give it a discoverability that reaches the readership it most wants: humanities and social-science scholars across Spain, Portugal and Latin America, and Ibero-Americanists everywhere.

Metrics and Standing

All figures are attributed to their source as at checking on 26 October 2026. OpenAlex, resolving the source through its ISSN endpoint to S2738465358, recorded 1,091 works and 1,470 citations, an h-index of 12, an i10-index of 22, and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.40; it recorded the host as the University of Seville, the country as Spain, counted works from the late 1990s to 2026, and recorded the journal as open access and listed in DOAJ. The stored JournalsWorld record gave an h-index of 10 from an earlier source, close to the OpenAlex figure and a reminder that such numbers move slowly upward over time.

SCImago data fetched for this profile — the SCImago ranking for Arts and Humanities in the Ibero-American region — showed Araucaria with an SJR of 0.208, quartile Q2 in its category, an h-index of 10, and substantial recent volume: 72 documents in 2025 and 277 documents over the most recent three years, with a two-year citations-per-document figure of 0.30 in that table. For a humanities journal publishing largely in Spanish and Portuguese, those are healthy numbers: humanities citation densities are low in every database, much humanities influence travels through books and through syllabi rather than through counted citations, and a Q2 regional placement with a thousand-work backfile and rising document counts describes a journal with an active, growing scholarly community. Authors should weigh fit and readership above metric-chasing in this field; by the measures that exist, Araucaria stands as an established mid-field international journal in Ibero-American humanities and social sciences, with the unusual assets of three languages and no fees.

How to Submit

Submissions are made through the journal's pages on the University of Seville portal at revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria, following its publication and submission guidelines. In outline: write an original, unpublished article or essay within the scope above, in Spanish, Portuguese or English; format it as the guidelines direct; watch the portal for announced monographic dossiers if your topic matches a forthcoming call, or submit to the open stream; and expect double anonymous review. There is no charge to budget for at any stage, per the journal's DOAJ record, but authors should read the copyright terms on the submissions pages before submitting, as noted above. The portal's current pages are the controlling source at the moment of submission.

Readership and Fit

Araucaria fits philosophers, political scientists, historians and humanities scholars whose work concerns Ibero-America or the wider questions of democracy, peace and the international community, and those working on the history of political and philosophical thought, including its classical roots. It is an especially rational choice for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking scholars seeking a recognised European university journal that will publish them in their own language, for Latin American scholars seeking a European venue with a genuine Ibero-American readership, and for Anglophone Ibero-Americanists. It is a weaker fit for work outside the social sciences and humanities, for purely technical studies, and for topics with no Ibero-American, historical or humanistic bearing that the author is willing to develop.

The journal's dossier habit deserves one more word for authors planning ahead. A monographic issue is a commitment device for a whole subfield: it signals that a question matters now, it gathers the scholars best placed to answer it, and it gives readers a single citable place where the state of the question can be found. Authors with a topic that matches an announced dossier gain the further advantage of a defined timetable and a defined readership. Checking the portal's announcements page (Próximos monográficos) before drafting is therefore one of the highest-value steps a prospective contributor can take, because a paper written for a named dossier, in dialogue with its call, starts the review process with its fit already argued.

Related Journals Readers Also Consult

Readers of Araucaria commonly also work with neighbouring Ibero-American humanities and social-science titles on JournalsWorld and beyond, such as Política y Sociedad, the Complutense journal of political science and sociology; Andamios, the Mexican journal of social research; and Agua y Territorio, for the historical and social study of water and territory in the same SCImago regional conversation. Each named title is a separate journal with its own publisher and ISSNs, listed here for orientation only; none is a duplicate or alternative record of Araucaria.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Araucaria's full title? Araucaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades.

What are its ISSNs? Print ISSN 1575-6823 and online ISSN 2340-2199.

Who publishes it? The University of Seville, Spain, on its scientific journals portal.

When did it begin? Its first issue appeared in June 1999, per its official about page.

How often does it appear? Three times a year since 2020, per its about page.

In which languages does it publish? Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Is it open access, and does it charge? It is free access, and DOAJ records no article processing charge and no other charges.

What licence do articles carry? CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, per DOAJ. DOAJ also records that authors do not retain copyright; check the journal's current submissions pages for its terms before submitting.

How is it reviewed? Double anonymous peer review, per DOAJ, which also records a typical publication time of four weeks.

What is its h-index? OpenAlex recorded 12 at checking time and SCImago data showed 10; quote the source with the figure.

Sources and Verification

This profile was built from foreground checks made on 26 October 2026: the live JournalsWorld record for this post (stored title Araucaria and print ISSN 1575-6823); the journal's official about page on the University of Seville portal, for its description, foundation in June 1999, three-issue frequency since 2020, free access, languages and COPE-referenced ethics commitment; the DOAJ search API record, for listing, online ISSN 2340-2199, alternative title, review model, licence, copyright field, charges, publication time, subjects and keywords; the OpenAlex source record resolved through the ISSN endpoint (S2738465358), for works, citations, h-index, i10-index, two-year mean citedness, topics and coverage; and SCImago ranking data, for SJR, quartile, h-index and document counts. The online ISSN's absence from the stored record is noted in the identity section as a catalogue point. Editors, dossier calls and terms should be re-checked on the portal at the time of submission.