The Ibero-American Journal of Municipal Studies (RIEM), belonging to the Universidad Autónoma de Chile, is a free and open-access scientific publication of Ibero-American scope. The journal is published continuously and contains unpublished academic articles and reviews, published in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

RIEM seeks to become a space for interdisciplinary dialogue around local and territorial processes in Latin America. Along with the analysis of subnational development and public management, the journal incorporates perspectives that address socio-territorial dynamics, ecological transformations, economic and social processes with differentiated effects on territories, as well as the tensions arising from multi-level governance. The journal receives contributions that, on the basis of case studies or comparative approaches, link the empirical with broader theoretical frameworks at a national, regional or global level.

The disciplines covered include, but are not limited to, public administration, political science, sociology, law, economics, anthropology, psychology, geography, environmental studies, and territorial development.

In 2023, the journal switched to continuous publication and since January 2025 uses Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing according to the university’s open access policy and the FAIR principles of open science. In 2025, it also established a policy on the use of artificial intelligence by authors and in the editorial review and production process.

The RIEM magazine does not charge fees (APC) for the submission and processing of papers, nor does it charge fees for the publication of its articles.