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Lara Calderon, M LeninCorresponding Author

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September 4, 2025
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Galapagos, Nature, Heritage, and Contemplation

Publicated to: HERITAGE (BASEL). 8 (8): 335- - 2025-08-15 8(8), DOI: 10.3390/heritage8080335

Authors:

Calderón, MLL
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Affiliations

UIDE Int Univ Ecuador, Fac Arts Design & Architecture, Simon Bolivar Av,Jorge Fernandez Av, Quito 170411, Ecuador - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Construct & Architectural Technol, Madrid 28040, Spain - Author

Abstract

When we hear of the Galapagos Islands, we think of a place of natural conservation and biological diversity, with the archipelago having been a World Heritage Site since 1978 and a Biosphere Reserve since 1984, expanding its area in 2019. In this study, while exploring the islands, we found that some places brought us spiritual delight, fostered internal recollection, and promoted reflection. Both islanders and tourists visited and evaluated these places using conceptual and combined methodological tools to determine which of these places constituted contemplation sites. The results allowed for a variety of sites that generate new experiences, imagination, spatial holograms, and mental routes for a user to identify, which allows for the creation of new recommended tourist routes and the categorization of intangible heritage, which can be potentiated by the community and tourists in a controlled manner, as indicated by this research.
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Keywords

GalapagoGalapagosHermeneutic phenomenologyInterpretation of heritageNatural heritagePlaces of contemplation

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal HERITAGE (BASEL) due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Conservation. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-24:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 1.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 1 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/91416/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 50
  • Downloads: 71
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Ecuador.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (LARA CALDERÓN, MARCO LENIN) and Last Author (LARA CALDERÓN, MARCO LENIN).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been LARA CALDERÓN, MARCO LENIN.

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Awards linked to the item

The dissemination of the results of this research phase was funded by the Visiting Research project of the International University of Ecuador in partnership with the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
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