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The work "Andalusia from Cordoba: New Contributions to Historical Andalusianism. The Córdoba Magazine (1917-1916). Study and Bibliographic Index» by Manuel Hijano del Río is an exhaustive and rigorous investigation of the Córdoba magazine published between 1916 and 1917, which played a fundamental role in disseminating the proposals of the Andalusianist movement led by Blas Infante. The author provides a comprehensive view of the magazine, its contents, and its historical context, allowing for a deep understanding of its impact on the politics and culture of Andalusia. Additionally, the work provides valuable bibliographic indexes and enriches research on historical Andalusianism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the republication of articles from the TIP magazine in fraudulent journals. The authors of the republished articles were not contacted or made any payment, as they were unaware of the existence of these "new" publications. These fraudulent journals seek valid and quality articles to attract those interested in publishing their work, but their main interest is payment for publication rather than academic quality. Authors who publish in these journals run the risk of not receiving recognition and of losing credibility with readers. [Extracted from the article]

Publication of papers in refereed journals is an essential activity for the diffusion and advancement of scientific and technological knowledge and allows a direct evaluation of the productivity of research groups. In this work, some guidelines and tips are given to write up each section of a scientific paper with the aim of increasing its probability of acceptance when reviewed by referees and editors. The strategy in which the writing starts at the inner sections of the paper [Methodology, (Appendices), Results, Discussion, Conclusions] and follows at the outer sections [Introduction, Title, Abstract, References, Acknowledgments] is highly recommended. A description is given of the stages of the publication process (final preparation, submission to a journal, reviewing, and editorial production) and a compilation is made of the quality criteria that referees and a journal editor take into account to review a paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to comment on some of the issues that continue to be debated about design research, such as its methodological rigour and the lack of a theoretical framework.. To show that design research over the last decade has established itself as a form of educational research, highlighting the consensus reached in defining its characteristics and epistemic commitments. I show the similarities with the articles published in this journal. It will also describe the main criticisms of design research and the prospects for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present, to those neophyte researchers, a set of hints that facilitate manuscript writing and publishing processes needed for high class scientific journals. In the scientific community, a research would only be completed when the results are shared through papers in peer-reviewed journals that guarantees the originality, importance and scientific validation of reported contributions. Consequently, researchers have the necessity to develop skills and abilities in scientific writing. However, the manuscript preparation process from the initial phase to the final publication is usually slow and difficult, due to some key factors having infiuence over its quality. In this paper, we present general guidelines about manuscript preparation and we give some hints about good scientific writing practices. The aim of these hints is easing the review done by the peer-reviewers in the evaluation process. In this sense, this work contributes to the newcomers in scientific research socialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study analyzes fifty years of theological reflection in Uruguay, specifically at the Faculty of Theology of Uruguay "Mons. Mariano Soler" and its predecessor, the Theological Institute of Uruguay. These periodic publications demonstrate the research and production work in the area of theological thought in the country. Over time, different research topics have emerged, addressed from the different specialties of theological knowledge and ecclesiastical sciences in general. The progress of the Theological Institute of Uruguay has contributed to giving more importance to research and being more demanding in publications. The article presents the emergence of academic publications in Uruguay in the 1970s, as part of the Latin American theological movement following the Second Vatican Council. These publications, which include an Annual Book and a series of Notebooks, seek to be theological and pastoral contributions in service to the Church. The text talks about the publications of the Theological Institute of Uruguay and their evolution over the years. Initially, five issues of the magazine "Puntos de Apoyo" were published in 1983 and 1984, addressing specific topics related to theology. Then, for three years, there were no new publications. Starting in 1995, the magazine "Soleriana" began to be published, replacing the Annual Book and being published semi-annually. This new stage coincides with the creation of the degree in theology of evangelization and seeks to promote theological reflection in the service of evangelization in a context of secularization and social challenges. Soleriana magazine presents itself as a resource for the evangelization of Uruguayan culture, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue from theological thought. In 2000, the creation of the Faculty of Theology of Uruguay "Mons. Mariano Soler" is announced and the magazine becomes the faculty's magazine. The article presents a summary of the issues of Soleriana magazine published between 2001 and 2015. The topics addressed in each issue are mentioned, such as hope, the Virgin Mary, religiosity, and the evangelization of culture. It is highlighted that the magazine has experienced a crisis and decline in recent years, with a decrease in the number of issues published. The importance of research and academic production in the theological field is emphasized. Soleriana magazine has gone through different stages over the years. In the first stage, it focused on the history of the Church in Uruguay and had the participation of faculty students. In the second stage, the magazine faced difficulties and stopped having previous sections. In the third stage, the magazine was revitalized and began to be published semi-annually, with new sections and a focus on research. Style guidelines have been introduced and blind peer review has been implemented. The article presents the history of theological production at the Faculty of Theology of Uruguay "Mons. Mariano Soler" through its publications. The importance of Soleriana magazine is highlighted, which has adopted a style manual for article submission and has established formal requirements. The magazine has exclusively relied on research papers from authors, mostly faculty members. Additionally, the creation of its own research lines and the exchange with other academic publications are mentioned. On the other hand, the existence of books edited by the institution is mentioned, mainly by faculty professors. In conclusion, the contribution of these publications to Uruguayan theological production and their objective of contributing to the Church and national culture is highlighted. The article presents the work of the Theological Institute in Uruguay over the past 50 years. Although proposals for liberation theology emerged in the country, the institute did not embrace them. [Extracted from the article]

This paper addresses the linguistics column that Juan B. Selva published in the pedagogical journal La Obra between 1923 and 1927, with the aim of examining both the criteria of authority regarding linguistic knowledge, as well as the ideological assessments and attitudes expressed by the author in relation to the linguistic phenomena he describes. The analysis of the column (which was published in a context in which Argentina was witnessing the institutionalization of linguistics and the expansion of debates on language in the press) allows us to corroborate the centrality of normative issues, a characteristic feature of the genre. However, it also reveals the emergence of a discourse that rejects prescriptive positions and, instead, seeks scientific explanations for the linguistic phenomena it records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prominence of universities as centers for the publication of scientific journals in Latin America has been assessed in different works; however, few studies have described these scenarios from a historical perspective that recovers the characteristics of the first publications and their contexts. this research focuses on the survey of journals published during the foundational period of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (1919-1943), and their characterization according to formats and contents presented. Out of a total of 13 periodical publications surveyed, we found the existence of journals that present a hybrid genre between scientific and informative discourse; a smaller group that we call "teaching journals", dedicated to teaching and the publication of practical exercises for students; and a majority of publications (7 journals in total) dedicated to the communication of the results of scientific research. this paper focuses on these pioneering scientific journals, which marked the beginning of a path of academic publications in the context of a founding moment in the creation of research institutes and consolidation of scientific careers, and coinciding with the development of extension policies. Studying the processes between the beginnings of the UNL in light of the present allows us to postulate an editorial will that extends throughout the history of the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The field of Communication in Spain is analyzed, contextualizing Spanish output at a global and local level between the years 2000 and 2020. Based on a descriptive bibliometric analysis of the Communication category of the Social Sciences Citation Index database, part of Web of Science, the impact of the main countries is identified. The weight of the output in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) database between 2015 and 2020 is also studied. An analysis of the output by universities in Spain for the period 2010–2020 is also carried out, comparing it with the impact and the works in the first quartile. The results reveal that Spain has been the fourth country in terms of output in Communication in the last decade and that Austria stands out as the country whose works have the greatest impact. It is also observed that 67% of Spain’s works in Communication are published in journals that are indexed in ESCI. The impact of Spanish universities is very close to the world average. The Universitat Pompeu Fabra stands out, publishing the most articles and, furthermore, being the Spanish university with most papers in the first quartile of the JCR in Communication between 2010 and 2020. The study of the Shanghai Ranking by area includes eight Spanish universities, only three of which have output in Communication that comes mainly from professors in this area. The role of the Spanish journals Comunicar and Profesional de la información is notable, as they publish a large fraction of the output by Spanish universities in the Communication field. Finally, this paper presents the challenges of research in Communication, as well as those related to its bibliometric analysis, and a reflection on the problems that affect scientific production and research in this subject area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows how Plan S arises and works, the impact it can have on the subscriptions of the scientific and academic journals of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as the first approaches of some publishers who see in this University and Latin America an opportunity to implement this new publication model. The way of publishing has changed due to the use of technologies that have brought with it the emergence of the Open Access (OA) movement derived from the Budapest Open Access initiative proposed by the Open Society Institute in 2001. Plan S is an initiative that arises in 2018 to accelerate the transition to Open Access, which will allow research results to have greater visibility and citation. Plan S includes transformative agreements that can be established between publishers and libraries, since it is intended to change the payment for subscription to journals for the Read and Publish model, where the publisher receives a payment to read and a payment to publish in a single contract, while under the Publish & Read model the editor only receives payment for the publication of articles by authors from an institution and the reading of journals is included at no additional cost, precisely at this point, the library plays a relevant role among the initiative and its academic community. Therefore, we agree that Plan S, the cOAlition S initiative and the transformative agreements are a great support for open access publishing, since they directly lower the costs of the Article Processing Charges (APC) and offer researchers various options for publish their findings or advances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the cumulative production of knowledge about the development of Latin America, in general, and Argentina, in particular, from the case of Economic Development, in the period 1958-1975. The author proposes, through a conceptual theoretical analysis, that the accumulation of knowledge is evidenced by gradually posing new analysis variables and questions. Between 1958 and 1959, a central problem was the transformation of an agrarian productive structure into an industrial one. Between 1961 and 1969, the above is assumed, and includes social and political aspects of Latin American underdevelopment. Between 1970 and 1975, the magazine publishes discussions on dependency and on some specific experiences of underdevelopment, condensing problematizations and findings from the two previous periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we explore how the concept "territory" is used in articles published in scientific journals of Geography edited by universities in Argentina, as well as its analytical problematization and scope. For that purpose, we built an analytical corpus of 260 articles that included the word territory and its associated concepts in the title, and we conducted a qualitative analyzes taking into consideration the most common definitions and uses of the concept. The results show that in 61% of the cases the concept is not defined and is used as a general geographical reference. In 24% of the cases, a theoretical definition is provided but there is no problematization of the concept in the analysis of the article. In the remaining 15 %, there are both a theoretical definition and a problematization of territory in the analysis. In these last two groups of articles, we found a strong theoretical influence of Brazilian authors. Furthermore, the latter group is unevenly concentrated in some specific journals, which raises questions about the universities' where the journals are based academic traditions and their possible connections with the uses of the concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A paper published in 2019 in the journal Science concludes that Peru starred in 61 events to reduce the level of protection and size as well as to eliminate protected areas (events known by the acronym PADDD). That would place the country among those that most mistreat their protected areas. But, in Peru only one case is known. When reviewing the study methodology, it is confirmed that the authors misinterpreted the information, especially referring to national forests that in Peru have never been considered protected areas. It's seems the authors exaggerated the arguments to demonstrate the significance of PADDD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The XV Symposium and XIII Congress of the Cuban Society of Physics took place at the University of Havana from March 9th to 13th, 2020. The event featured the participation of Cuban and foreign specialists, and a total of 217 papers were presented. During the Congress, the work of the Cuban Society of Physics in strengthening relationships with related associations was highlighted, and the society's 40th anniversary was celebrated. In addition, organizations and individuals who have contributed to the development of physics in Cuba were recognized. The Cuban Society of Physics has also organized the Latin American University Physics Olympiad since 2017 and publishes the Cuban Journal of Physics. Awards were presented to outstanding professors during the congress, and discussions were held on the current situation of physics in Cuba. [Extracted from the article]

This paper is about educational research journals in general and the British Educational Research Journal in particular. In this paper, we discuss some of the aims of educational research journals and several the challenges facing them; we also identify various ways in which journals could consider doing things differently. Two issues are of particular significance. The first is about the accessibility of educational research in an era of rapid technological change and the rise of Open Access publication models. The second is to do with the mission of education journals in relation to long-standing and pervasive educational inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Identify the research lines present in the Journal Información, Cultura y Sociedad (ICS), through network analysis, defining historical trends of interest, as well as opportunities to cover knowledge gaps. Methods: A cross - sectional descriptive study based on research published in ICS from its inception until 2016, considering as key elements the keywords, considering them as referring to the issue of publication. The evaluation had two approaches: number of occurrence of the nodes in the study period and analysis of power relations, scope and greater impact among them, applying Network Analysis (AR). Finally, it was comparatively evaluated the occurrence versus relations between nodes. Results: We reviewed 197 research papers, identifying 570 key words or research topics. The AR established that the majority of research papers have Argentina as the main topic, with a greater interest in issues directly related to librarianship, few of which correspond to cross-cutting themes and related to other environments. Conclusions: The greatest number of research topics in ICS are linked to library techniques and processes, so there is an opportunity to strengthen the content of the publication with transversal topics of an organizational type, such as knowledge management, information management Organizational, intelligence or business surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Institutional offices for the communication and dissemination of science are gaining in importance at Spanish universities, and their activities can contribute to increasing the visibility and reputation of researchers. The objective of this study is to analyze the relations between the institutional communication of research results to the public and the impact and academic visibility of scientific papers. For this purpose, science communication and dissemination undertaken through press releases on R+D+i results from the Science Culture and Innovation Unit (SCIU) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) were selected as a case study. This SCIU was chosen because it has published yearly reports for more than a decade on the impact in the media of its press releases. Press dossiers of the last five years available (2014-2018) were examined, and a database was created of the citations received by texts published in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science as well as their mentions on social networks through the company Altmetric.com. After that, this information was statistically analyzed. The main results show that the journal impact index is important for obtaining academic citations or appearing in Twitter conversations. However, the influence of the journal impact factor turns out to be lower when it comes to popularizing scientific publications in the media. Furthermore, the statistical evidence points to the fact that scientific publications disseminated through the SCIU receive proportionally more citations than research that has not been disseminated through the institutional channel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, interdisciplinary research (IR) is considered to have a higher potential for societal impact than monodisciplinary research, as it addresses real world problems from different and more complex perspectives. However, the evidence of a relationship between IR and research impact is scanty. This paper aims to see whether the attention that IR receives on social media is somehow different from monodisciplinary conventional research. For this purpose, we analyze mentions to the Spanish scientific production published between 2012 and 2016 and recorded in Web of Science (WoS) on several social media, including Twitter, blogs, Wikipedia, news, and policy reports, using Altmetric.com. Articles are grouped into 175 disciplines, according to the WoS classification system, including the Multidisciplinary category, which we take as an approximation to IR. Additionally, blogs citing the scientific literature published on journals of the category Multidisciplinary were compared to those of Internal Medicine and Ecology, in order to study comparatively the authorship and nature of the blogs, and the commenting activity they support. Results show that articles published in the category Multidisciplinary are among the most cited on social media, especially on blogs and news. The analysis of blogs points to a higher implication of actors outside the academic community with research published on journals of the category Multidisciplinary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acta Zoologica Mexicana (nueva serie) is a scientific journal founded in 1984 to publish the results of originals research of terrestrial fauna. This paper presents a descriptive account of editorial production from 1984 to December 2014. In this time 125 issues with 1001 papers have been published: 730 articles, 211 scientific notes and 60 different contributions. According to the first author of articles and scientific notes, 73% come from Mexican institutions and 21% are foreigners. Works with multi-authorship are more frequent (79%). The language most used is the Spanish (81%) after English (17%). Most of the works are from Latin American authors. The insect is the zoological group most studied (50%), after the mammals (19%). According the topics of research the most commonly used is the distribution and/or diversity (35%), biology (24%), taxonomy (14%) and interactions between species (12%). Time evaluation of the work varies from less than one month to 14 months. In the past 20 years it has averaged 30% annual rejection. The evaluation of the work has been carried out by nationals (70%) and foreign specialists (30%). This journal is recognized by several international index also distributed in 35 countries by exchanges with numerous institutions and by annual subscription. It have free access to articles and notes issued through its website and Redalyc, DOAJ, and Scielo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corporate Magazines are a channel of communication for organizations with readers. But the crisis has led to many of these publications disappearing or experiencing changes in their informative model, is the case of the RENFE. This paper aims to analyse contents and study the evolution of Paisajes in order to assess the consequences that this new communication strategy has for stakeholders. The findings indicate that the disappearance of Paisajes has supposed the loss of a paper format magazine that enjoyed wide acceptance among train users. Quite simply, the function performed by Paisajes is not covered by other media aimed at internal readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social science journals are undergoing a process of change to reach the quality standards required by knowledge assessment agencies. This paper presents an overview of the main areas requiring improvement in order to attain a better position, visibility, and impact for these journals. Considering its remarkable trajectory that makes it a reference in the field of social sciences, the model of the journal Comunicar is analysed, pondering the relationship between articles received and accepted, authorship, methodologies, and quality criteria employed by the journal. This piece concludes with a reflection on the existence of a new academic culture, the potential quality parameters of the journals and their indicators, the importance of the author of academic texts and his or her training, the establishment of topics of interest beyond the local or individual, visibility and transference, and the incorporation of new ways of measuring the impact of work, in line with the resources of the digital society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The NGOs on Development (NGOD) use different means of communication to transmit their main objective. Their mission is to engage the Northern countries in solving the problems of the South. As such, they try to transmit a particular image of its inhabitants. In this paper, we examine this image on the covers of the magazines Action against Hunger and Oxfam Intermón. We have used the method of Van Leeuwen (2008). In conclusion, the covers reinforce the dichotomy between the South, who needs help, and the North, who wants to help, but always with the intermediation of a NGOD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. This paper critically examines recent work on qualitative health research (QHR) in Mexico. Material and Methods. A review was conducted of 128 articles published between 2000 and 2009. A literature search was done drawing together a verse of indexes, search engine, data bases and citations, as well as interviewing researchers. A frequency and content analysis was carried out. Results. QHR has expanded significantly, both nationally and internationally, and papers published in public health and social medicine journals. However, several factors impede its consolidation: the institutional, territorial and thematic concentration of studies, the dependency on grounded theory, the selective nature of the research topics and populations; and its marginal scientific impact. Conclusions. QHR has grown in México, but its consolidation faces serious challenges. Several proposals are discussed that could strengthen the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic conditions in Mexico have contributed to the impoverishment of its population and, consequently a worsening of their health. Therefore, if research contributes to development, the study of significant research is justified, that is to say research whose results appear in core journals, a principle commonly known as the Bradford Law. The purpose of this study is to determine what has been the scientific growth in order to be able to assume, with empirical evidence, that Mexican researchers have overcome difficulties in order to publish in the most relevant journals, i.e. the most significant ones. Empirical data was built on the basis of the journal lists compiled by Garfield, which comprise of 200 journals that reached the highest levels of impact over a period of 15 years. A total of 155 health science journals were included in the analysis conducted through the Web of Science. A total of 1,293 records published between 1999 and 2004 were identified from a total of 829,400 papers that appeared in those journals and in within the same period globally. 80 % of the significant research carried out in Mexico was concentrated in two entities of the country. It was found that health research is the responsibility of public institutions, mainly academia. Also, that the most active disciplines were biochemistry and molecular biology, neurosciences, general and internal medicine, immunology and microbiology. The conclusion reached is that Mexican researchers have overcome the difficulties related with publishing papers in the core journals. However, Mexican institutions still have to strengthen themselves further in order for the research they carry out be reflected in papers that will take them into a market of visible science, that counts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Electronic journals are imposing themselves as the scientific information transmission vehicle. This paper analyzes the main characteristics of electronic journals as well as the available on line resources to obtain all relevant information on electronic and printed journals. This paper also comments on procedures used to spread and to commercialize electronic journals including details on the leading companies and their services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the bibliometric indicators and collaborative networks found in one of the most representative psychology journals of the Colombian Caribbean region (Psicología desde el Caribe), in issues published between the years 2009 and 2013. An analysis of 12 issues evince the importance given to collaborative work, a significant number of texts have been written by several authors (83.2%), namely Colombian nationals, who have chosen to work with authors hailing from Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Also, there is a marked preference for a network of Brazilian authors. Applied research in the clinical social area is the most preferred by authors who publish in this journal. The journal Psicología desde el Caribe is recognized as a publication which includes articles principally in Spanish, and which seems to merit confidence and trust of authors from all American nations and Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1870 and 1890 several women's magazines from Buenos Aires assiduously began to publish texts from Peruvian writers, influenced largely by the arrival of Juana Manuela Gorriti to that city. These magazines became a platform to promote transnational dialogues among their female contributors, legitimizing the figure of the female American writer in this process. This paper aims to study this circuit of publication, which would extend until the late nineteenth century, when writers like Clorinda Matto de Turner and Carolina Freyre de Jaimes settled in Argentina and developed their own journalistic projects there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A selection of 12 outstanding methodologies that allow to evaluate scientific journals in digital environment, which were found in the specialized national and foreign literature was carried out. Afterwards, the pertinent journals were selected and analyzed, with the objective of determining which tool would be used to evaluate the quality of the digital scientific journal RECIDT, which is the goal of this research. As research methods, the documental analysis during the revision and the study of the documentation of interest were used as well as the direct observation of the interaction with the own journals and their making. In addition, the strengths of the tools analyzed, given in indicators contained in the chosen tools, were detected and fused. Moreover, other indicators by the authors of this research were added to the investigation to draw the final result. All these indicators will be used to evaluate the digital scientific journal RECIDT and they are shown in this paper in terms of actions and indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some studies made on Colombian literary periodical publications. Its content is presented in terms of the scientific problems that are raised and outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sustained development of publishing of scientific journals has opened a field of analysis and application of specific knowledge for librarians. Working cooperatively with publishers enriches both players since, while librarians especially know the standardization and dissemination of journals, the editors focus on academic tasks, thematic relevance, relationship with authors and reviewers, peer review. The parameters of regional and international edition have strengthened themselves in recent decades from interinstitutional agreements and the publishers' acceptance, using methods of management and editing and formal criteria of evaluation of academic production. So publishers need a specialized and institutional support to accompany the process of scientific and technical development to get their magazines inserted in main core of scientific journals in each discipline. This paper examines the case of the Coordinación del Área de Publicaciones, of the Biblioteca de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, that currently publishes over 20 journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A historical account of origin and evolution of Acta Bioethica (ISSN 0717-5906) is presented, emphasizing the topics addressed and the geographical origin of its authors during its first ten years of existence. Indexed in SciELO, Science Citation Index, Latindex and other bibliographic databases, the journal has become standard reference for scholars. Its papers, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, are cited with increasingly higher frequency. The Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética (CIEB), at the University of Chile, which edited it during the time of the consortium with The PAHO/WHO Bioethics Program, continues increasing its presence in specialized circles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Management, trade strategies, marketing and users of scientific-technical e-books in the Spanish market are analysed in this paper, from the point of view of the main subscription agents. Swets and Ebsco country managers in Spain were interviewed to obtain a general overview. The most widely held opinion in the scholarly context -researchers, librarians, publishers and subscription agents- is that the scholarly e-book is being accepted much more slowly than e-journals but will become more and more important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper starts with the redefinition of the current concept of journalism in the communicative context due to the changes in the attitudes of the audiences, the roles of the media and the productive routines of journalists; it reviews the production of information as a process that reveals how events are transformed into news if they constitute a rupture of the social consensus; it also investigates the impact on newspapers from Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Galicia of two events occurred outside the habitual points of informative interest: the signing of peace in Angola and the elections in Mozambique to propose a) that the media prioritize as news-value those events led by "relevant sources" or those occurred within their own geographic scope of diffusion, and b) that the prolonged absences in the agenda are determined by the so-called curve of absences: mimetic schemes that reflect an oscillating interest to a cyclical rate in which the secondary elements are used to serve as updating referents to initiate a narration that mixes the context (background) with the expectations about evolution (projection). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific papers published in Mexican and Latin American journals are usually assigned very low (or even null) value in the research evaluation systems that are currently prevalent in this region. Consequently, our scientists are publishing their most relevant research elsewhere, mainly in journals that are indexed in ISI's Citation Index (CI) and have a high Impact Factor (IF) because these journals are the most highly valued by our evaluators. Latin American journals literally are being deprived of the best contributions from the region, making it even more difficult to acquire the international visibility needed for our journals to become more attractive to our researchers and evaluators. If this cycle continues, our journals will be condemned to a secondary role in the advancement of science and may even disappear. Several scientists have exposed the main problems and limitations of ISI's CI and the IF as indicators of 'good science' and I review these here. I then briefly describe recently developed alternatives that should at least complement these indicators or possibly replace them in the evaluation of research. Finally, I reflect on current practices of research evaluation and propose some measures to break the vicious cycle in which our journals are trapped. My main objective is to contribute to the debate on the indicators employed in our evaluation systems and to stimulate the discussion of the far reaching consequences that the use of these indicators is having on the development of science in Latin America and on the future of our journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an analysis of the scientific output of the journal Cuadernos de desarrollo rural ("Rural Development Notebooks") published between 1979 and 2008. The paper's main goal is to ponder the scientific production of the journal over its thirty years of uninterrupted publication, and to show, via bibliometrics and resorting to socio-scientific networks, the editorial project's behaviour and evolution. Readers will see a transition and evolution from an institutional and endogenous periodical to a publication now accepted by an increasingly wider international community thus reflected in its degree of internationalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Five obstacles are described that currently prevent Spanish researchers in the psychological sciences from publishing more frequently in journals of high impact factor. These are: a) a general lack of confidence in your ability; b) a tendency for your papers to be driven more by speculation rather than data; c) excessive length of submitted manuscripts; d) higher than expected rates of drop-out and non-participation in studies, and e) lack of independence from pharmaceutical companies. Although many of these problems will require long-term structural changes, others can be addressed immediately and yield improvement rapidly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]