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With the aim of identifying the positioning of scientific journals in Paraguay by analyzing citations, a descriptive study was carried out with a quantitative approach, carried out between November 2016 and January 2017, using the Publish or Perish version 5.25.2. We included journals that have gone through at least one evaluation for their admission, be it database or indexing services, that count for the last three years (2014,2015, 2016) online, in total, 30 journals were studied, mostly semiannual, published by universities in the area of Social Sciences and Medical Sciences. A group of 10 journals was found in more than three indexing services or databases, with previous evaluation of income. The largest presence of journals was in the Latindex catalog. Regarding the impact factor, 14 journals were performed, the highest score obtained was 0.43 corresponded to the Journal of Public Health of Paraguay, 0.32 to the Pediatrics journal and the International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 0.24 to the journal Memories of the Research institute in Health Sciences and 0.15 to the Agrarian Research magazine. The group of journals with positioning found is considered important. However, greater impetus is required for the inclusion of journals in more indexing services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]