  We compare the visibility of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) publications
in the Core Collection indexes of the Web of Science (WoS)--Science Citation
Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation
Index--and the SciELO Citation Index (SciELO CI) which was integrated into the
larger WoS platform in 2014. The purpose of this comparison is to contribute to
our understanding of the communication of scientific knowledge produced in
Latin America and the Caribbean, and to provide some reflections on the
potential benefits of the articulation of regional indexing exercises into WoS
for a better understanding of geographic and disciplinary contributions. How is
the regional level of SciELO CI related to the global range of WoS? In WoS, LAC
authors are integrated at the global level in international networks, while
SciELO has provided a platform for interactions among LAC researchers. The
articulation of SciELO into WoS may improve the international visibility of the
regional journals, but at the cost of independent journal inclusion criteria.
