“…Moreover, it has a special role in the process of institutionalization of any scientific discipline. Its existence or inexistence, its number, internationalization 1 , 2 and its position in international rankings help to ex-plain the level of institutionalization of autonomous communities (in the case of Spain), countries, regions, or continents (Buela, Guillén, Ramiro, & Quevedo, 2017;López, de Moya, Acevedo, García, & Silva, 2015;Moreno, López, Rubio, Saúl, & Sánchez, 2013;Navas, Abadal, & Rodrigues, 2018;Osca-Lluch, González-Sala, Fonseca, & Civera, 2017;Polanco, Gallegos, Salas, & López, 2017, Tortosa, Alfaro, Martínez, & Tortosa, 2019Visca, Gallegos, López, Polanco, & Cervigni, 2018).…”