Objetivo: determinar las formas en las que las métricas de evaluación soportan la gestión editorial de las revistas científicas en Colombia. Diseño/Metodología/Enfoque: la investigación clasificó como descriptiva documental. El diseño permitió el análisis de métricas utilizadas en la gestión editorial de revistas clasificadas por Publindex de…[Read more]

La revista Márgenes inicia su volumen once, número tres con colaboraciones científicas orientadas a temas del desarrollo local y los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible (ODS). Esto con la asunción de la importancia que tienen en la construcción de sociedades más equitativas y sustentables. En este número, ofrece una variedad de artículos que abo…[Read more]

In today’s digital age, where the amount of information generated and stored is overwhelming, the challenge of preserving and accessing it in an efficient and lasting manner arises. Persistent identifiers hold promise as a solution to address this challenge by providing a unique and enduring way to identify and access digital resources. They are…[Read more]

In 2023, a new museum opened in Tbilisi, at the Writer’s House of Georgia that previously house the Soviet Writers’ Union: The Museum of Repressed Writers. The museum honours the executed poets from Georgia’s Soviet past, poets whose identities Soviet authorities tried to destroy. This article examines the story the museum tells about Soviet l…[Read more]

This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued that the potential for enjambment, which we understand as the effect that makes line breaks possible…[Read more]

La ciencia y la producción científica desempeñan un papel fundamental en el avance del conocimiento. Sin embargo, incluso en este ámbito aparentemente objetivo, existe un fenómeno conocido como el efecto sombra que tiene implicaciones mucho más lejos que la coautoría entre unos y otros investigadores; parte de la falta de visibilidad o recono…[Read more]

En la producción científica no se visualiza un marco teórico sólido que oriente a la gestión documental en la administración pública. Se carece de lineamientos claros y precisos sobre cómo organizar, clasificar y preservar los documentos generados en el ejercicio de las funciones públicas. La falta de políticas y herramientas adecuadas para su g…[Read more]

The trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[Read more]

The early modern use of vegetal terms to explain the origin and growth of ores was widespread in mining industry, alchemy, and natural philosophy. In the writings of authors from many different backgrounds, mineral veins were often described as ‘trees’ which moved upwards, bore fruits, and underwent a life cycle. Accordingly, the existence in ore…[Read more]

From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

Beyond the texts on women’s medicine associated with the name of a 12th-century female medical practitioner from Salerno named Trota (or the title, “Trotula”), the most widely circulated texts were those deriving from the ancient Greek *Gynecology* of Soranus (2nd century CE). In particular, the Latin translation/adaptation by Muscio (or Mustio),…[Read more]

This essay, which expands on my talk at the Colors and Cultures / Couleurs et Cultures conference in April 2021, charts the history and my plans for a broad exploration of Turkey red as both subject and as object in global history. In it, I move between the personal—the compulsions that led me to undertake this series of studies, and which c…[Read more]

Los libros científicos con fines docentes o para el aprendizaje, muestran resultados de investigación, experimentos y contenidos que permiten a los estudiantes adquirir conocimientos. En la literatura científica publicada se evidencia una carencia de publicaciones que fundamente los medios y formas que permitan realizar una correcta so…[Read more]