A regional online information system for scientific journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, established in 1997 and coordinated from UNAM, Mexico.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A Mexican scholarly journal earns Latindex Catalogue inclusion by meeting editorial quality criteria.
Is an instance
A bibliometric study uses Latindex coverage to count Iberoamerican OA journals.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
Excluding Latindex-indexed journals from a university's recognised-publications list.
Not an instance
Misrepresenting Latindex Directory listing as endorsement of editorial quality (which requires Catalogue inclusion).

Editorial commentary

Latindex (Sistema Regional de Informacion en Linea para Revistas Cientificas de America Latina, el Caribe, Espana y Portugal) catalogues and indexes Iberoamerican scholarly journals according to publicly documented quality criteria. It comprises a Directory (listing of journals), a Catalogue (journals meeting editorial quality criteria) and an OA portal. Latindex collaborates with Redalyc, SciELO and DOAJ. It is a foundational infrastructure for bibliodiversity and Global-South publishing, supporting non-English-language scholarship and community-led editorial governance.

References

latindex.org. UNAM Latindex programme documentation.

Also known as

Latindex · Sistema Regional Latindex

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Latindex (concept)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/latindex-concept" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [
    "Latindex",
    "Sistema Regional Latindex"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
    "@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T02:22:56",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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