Notice: We hereby inform our community of readers, authors, and editors that, in order to optimize our digital infrastructure, all academic journals affiliated with the Universidad Autónoma de Chile will undergo a comprehensive update of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

Consequently, between June 22 and June 26, all activities, submissions, and editorial movements within our journal portals will be suspended. We strongly advise users to refrain from performing any actions (such as new manuscript submissions, peer reviews, or profile updates) during this period, as the technical update process may result in the loss of data or unsaved progress.

We appreciate your understanding regarding this necessary interruption, which will enable us to provide a more efficient service and an improved editorial management experience.

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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 The journal is published continuously and contains unpublished academic articles and reviews, published in Spanish, Portuguese and English.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.