Estudos Avancados

Estudos Avancados is published by Universidade de Sao Paulo. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Literature, Culture, and Criticism, Urban Development and Societal Issues and Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies, together about 23.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

What have a hundred issues and dozens of dossiers revealed to us in the 37 years of Estudos Avançados’ existence? They reveal significant figures: 110 issues; 2,397 articles published; 5,156 authors; 36,302 pages; 210,000 printed copies and more than 70 million accesses to articles in the databases. In terms of content, they reveal an intimate connection with the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA) of the University of São Paulo (USP), responsible for its edition. The editions and dossiers sought to encourage a transdisciplinary practice, which specialization in all branches of knowledge makes increasingly less feasible; and had the purpose of supporting one of the Institute's central goals: thinking about Brazil, getting to know its present in depth to help build its future. Alfredo Bosi used to say that a nation's values of justice and democracy cannot be proclaimed without an objective analysis of the material and cultural conditions of its people. That is why Estudos Avançados sought and seeks to convey knowledge that reflects the Brazilian reality. The main idea has been, from the beginning, to learn what Brazil is, what it thinks, and what it does. Above all, what it does. Bosi used Father Antonio Vieira's phrase “each person is their own actions” to confirm the verdict: How we have resolved or have not yet resolved our problems in the multiple spheres of national life. The journal’s past and future issues and dossiers should be understood as x-rays of our material and symbolic existence. In this sense, its connection with an institute of higher research founded with clear multi- and transdisciplinary purposes is a unique characteristic that, in some aspects, makes it different from other publications of general culture. Firstly, when creating its dossiers, the journal can make use of the most recent broad spectrum of findings from research groups working with the IEA, including specific topics of applied social sciences to themes of a strong transdisciplinary nature such as sustainable development, biotechnology applications, socio-environmental theories, and educational practices in Brazil. Complex topics such as education, health, transportation, energy, regional conundrums such as the Amazon and the Northeast, racial problems, religions, economic thought, rural development, agrarian reform, work and unemployment, migration, nationalism and organized crime, among others, have been exhaustively addressed by advanced research centers in Brazil and a

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

Editor-in-chief Sérgio AdornoPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 12, Portugal 2, Switzerland 1, Chile 1 (16 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

SciELOPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, Latindex

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.21LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

82OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

653OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.05OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year (publisher)

2,397Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 30 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer review, Open peer review, Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Universidade de Sao Paulo

Country or region

Brazil

Language

Spanish, Portuguese

ISSN

0103-4014

Electronic ISSN

1806-9592

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ