The visibility of The lettered city Angel Rama in mainstream literature (WOS)

• Autor(a) principal: Fontans Alvarez, Exequiel Aarón
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Encontros Bibli
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2015v20n44p89
• topic: Ángel Rama; A cidade letrada; Estudos culturais; Análise de citações; Ángel Rama; La ciudad letrada; Estudios culturales; Análisis de citas; Ángel Rama; The lettered city; Cultural studies; Citation analysis

Angel Rama (1926-1986) is noted by some specialized as one of the precursors of the current cultural studies in Latin authors; The lettered city is one of the most cited works and has written stating this influence. However it has not been approached from the Metric Information Studies. The aim of this paper is to highlight the visibility of the lettered city in mainstream literature collected by the Web based of Science (WOS), Thomson Reuters. A brief introduction to the British Cultural Studies (Birmingham School) is performed, with the understanding that they represent a history of Latin American Cultural Studies, where this work is framed. Areas, institutions and sources where this work is cited and co-cited authors are presented. Finally low visibility reflected WOS noted in the Latin American production considering that "lettered city" is a theoretical concept coined in the region.