Editorial: expectations and acknowledgments

This new issue of Maskana is published with some fantastic news: the journal has been accepted for inclusion in the prestigious Scopus Elsevier database.We are now diving into the world of impact metrics, which can be indecipherable at times but are generally based on the number of citations received within a given time frame. The editorial committee greatly values the prospects that this opens up. Without a doubt, the visibility of the University of Cuenca’s good research management will now be the focus of interest for a diverse group of international scientists. Expectations must be viewed with caution: the delicate exercise of predicting the future is obviously abstruse, almost esoteric. However, becoming an impact journal and ranking among the mere nine Ecuadorian serial publications currently listed in SCImago Journal Rank is an honor that was previously unthinkable for this small window into the world of knowledge. It is time to rejoice in the fact that journals in our region are taking off and reaching remarkable heights in spaces where, in the past, it took a great deal of effort for a Latin American publication to break through the thick storm clouds and discover itself, as strange as a black swan, in a sky filled with North American and Northern European journals, essentially in the English language.