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Introduction: This article is a product of the research on “The bibliometric analysis of Central America and Caribbean journals” that takes place at the Technological University of Panama in 2018. Objective: to measure the impact of open access journals and compare the countries of the study region. Also study the position of the magazines in Panama with respect to the other countries of the region. Methodology: We used the data from the indexed journals in DOAJ extracted in CSV format that were filtered by countries in a total of 211 journals and compared with indexers Latindex, Redalyc, Scielo and Redib in a total of 42 journals which were analyzed bibliometrically a Through the publish or perish software. Results: Most of the journals of the study region that belong to DOAJ comply with the necessary guidelines to index in the regional directories, however, of the 211 journals analyzed, only 42 have been integrated to the 4 indexers. Conclusions: The visibility of journals in the study region has improved the visibility of their publications, however, compared to countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and the United Kingdom, it is lower in impact numbers. Originality: In Panama there are no studies to measure scientific production or the impact of journals. Limitations: No data on this topic has been found in engineering publications.

The conceptual variations and divergences that permeate the debate on sustainability end up directly reflecting the choice of sustainability assessment (SA) processes, providing different methodological approaches. Among them, some researchers have pointed out challenges, but also opportunities to use geospatial data, techniques, and tools as resources to be explored in sustainability assessments. However, it was still unclear how geospatial tools have contributed in this context, as well as their future potential. Thus, through bibliometric mapping, this research answers these questions, through the identification of both the thematic fields of action of the geographic information system (GIS) in SA as well as the emerging research areas in this domain of knowledge. For this, we selected 1721 articles spanning 31 years (1990-2020). We observe that this is a subject of growing interest, as more than 50% of all publications were published after 2015. The main results indicated that, initially, the GIS supported sustainability assessments as a mapping tool associated mostly with environmental issues, however, the evolution of the analysis potential, through data modeling, gives rise to new application perspectives. This evolution takes place, in parallel, with the global discussion on sustainability, where multidimensionality starts to play a leading role, and sustainability indicators assume geographic positions.