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Introduction: The main objective of this work is to analyze, from a bibliometric point of view, the journal Ars Pharmaceutica in the time interval between the years 2014 and 2023, given the existence of previous studies prior to that period. Method: The study focuses on the estimation of average authorship and time of acceptance of an article, distribution by scientific typology and by thematic areas of the published works, distribution by countries and institutions of origin of the works and incidence of the gender in authorship. The statistical analysis has been based on nonparametric contrasts and trend analysis. Results: The average number of authors per article is 4, lower than that of journals in the Pharmacy & Pharmacology field, and has remained stable throughout the period under study; The areas that concentrate the greatest number of contributions are Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmacology; almost 80 % of the works come from Spain (45.62 %) and Ibero-American countries (33.46 %); and, finally, that the percentage of male authors is significantly higher than that of female authors (p=0.036). Conclusion: Ars Pharmaceutica is a journal that, despite publishing articles mostly in Spanish, is consolidating itself as an international journal, appearing since 2018 in the Journal of Citation Reports, initially with Journal Citation Indicator and, since 2022, with Journal Impact Factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "Reasons to write and publish scientific articles" highlights the importance of publishing scientific articles for surgeons. Despite their clinical, teaching, and administrative obligations, scientific productivity enhances the reputation of surgical services and the possibility of obtaining economic resources. There are two types of reasons for publishing: altruistic and personal. Additionally, the article mentions the importance of knowing what and where to publish, as well as the quality of the research and manuscript writing. The impact factor and the h-index are also mentioned as measures of research quality. The editors of the Colombian Journal of Surgery have decided to initiate a new section to facilitate the research task for surgeons. [Extracted from the article]

An analysis of the scientific production and research in Viticulture and Enology on papers referring to Mexico was performed, published between 2000 and 2022, and indexed in Scopus, Google Scholar, and CONRICyT databases. The following indicators were considered: quartile, H-index, productivity by year, journal, author, and the number of citations. Seventy-nine articles were identified that include many subtopics in the area, such as phytopathology, plant nutrition, climate, quality, and physicochemical and sensory properties of grapes and wine. This analysis demonstrates the necessity of promoting scientific research on priority topics in the different wine regions to take advantage of the diversity of opportunities and challenges in Mexican viticulture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The dehiscence of the posterior semicircular canal is a rare vestibulopathy, of low prevalence and whose symptomatology is explained by the phenomenon of the third window. It was not until 2003 that Krombach described the first cases. Objective: Evaluate the scientific production about the dehiscence of the posterior semicircular canal (DCSP) by a bibliometric and thematic analysis and observes its incidence at the scientific community level. Method: A search with subsequent review, selection and study was carried out using items related to DCSP indexed in the Pubmed, Web of Science, Alcorze and Scopus databases, from 2003 to 2019, selecting a total of 90 articles. Results: The 90 articles have been published in a total of 48 magazines. 52% were originals, 38% clinical cases, 9% reviews and 1% conferences. Clinical (32%) and etiology (27%) were the main themes. The articles were written in eight different languages, predominantly English (85%), and the United States has been the country with the highest number of publications (42%). Institutional activity and authorship rates are low. The quality of the journals is high: 70% of the publications were in the Q1-Q2 quartiles. The main area corresponds to otorhinolaryngology, with a total of 66 works, followed by radiology (14). The total number of downloads was 6958, with an average of 77.31 per article and the total citations were 1193, 13.25 per article. Conclusions: The bibliometric results reveal how the works on dehiscence of the posterior semicircular canal present a small scientific production, the subject is in a phase of sustained growth, the authorship, institutional and collaboration index are low, the publications are concentrated in a few journals of high quality and important visualization, with a clearly anglophone orientation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To determine the impact of different specialized family issues journals indexed in Scopus according to SJR database from 1999 to 2018. Methodology: The selected journals were categorized according to their content in four groups: "medical" journals that publish family health or reproductive health issues; "social" journals that address the family from a legal, historical or sociological perspective; "psychological" journals that publish family issues from the clinical, social or educational psychology perspective; and the group of "financial or economic" journals that address the family from its consumption habits, family economy or business strategies. To determine its impact, this study assesses: the SJR prestige measurement factor, the H index and the number of citations per document in the last two years using the R software version 3.6.1 through the sjrdata version 0.2.0 package. Results: In general terms, the most ranked journals are those in the social area. Likewise, the medical areas host the largest number of journals. On the other hand, the United States and the United Kingdom account for approximately 50% of family magazines in the world. Conclusions: Through this research, various researchers specialized in the area of family will be able to identify the most eligible journals to publish considering their reputation and academic impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To characterize the scientific production of the Revista Alergia Mexico. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out that took into consideration the bibliometric information of the Revista Alergia México hosted in PubMed (MEDLINE) and Scopus. Results: The total number of articles published during 1991 to 2021 according to Pubmed was 1,115 (annual mean: 37.2 ± 12.3). Scopus registered 1,541 articles during 1972 to 2021 (annual mean: 30.8 ± 14.9); in both sources, original articles (49 and 78%, respectively) and review articles (21 and 12%, respectively) were the most published document modalities; the most relevant topics included asthma (32%), allergic rhinitis (16%) and drug allergy (9%). Public institutions in Mexico were the institutions with the highest number of published articles. The country with the highest number of published papers was Mexico (54%), followed by Colombia (5%) and Spain (4%). The 2020 citation index according to Scopus was 0.9; an H-index of 15; and an impact factor of 0.150. During the period 2016 - 2020, the annual rejection rate ranged from 7% to 30%. Conclusions: Promoting the internationalization of the journal, publishing articles in the English language and achieving the impact factor are among some of the main needs of the Revista Alergia Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The problematic associated to impact factor (and the rankings create with it) is analyzed by examples in the Dialnet Métricas' IDR. Its nonsense for evaluating researchers or journal is revealed and it is stated that other criteria should be considered, as those included in Dialnet indicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work discusses the current debate between the use of qualitative approaches versus the use of quantitative indicators in research evaluation. It argues that too much importance is currently given to the methods and criteria employed in evaluation instead of discussing the most essential issue: the goal that evaluation pursues and how different research activities are valued. To finish, some design problems of the Spanish research evaluation system are highlighted because those problems act as a barrier towards a more contextualized and responsible evaluation system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Mexico is one of the countries with the highest scientific productivity in Latin America. One Mexican journal with a long history of publication is Archivos de Neurociencias (Arch Neurocien). Arch Neurocien evaluates its performance through citation-based indicators. A well-known indicator is "Impact Factor?" (IF). IF reflects the average number of citations received by articles published in journals indexed in the Journal of Citation Reports (JCR). Other similar indicators exist, like CiteScore and Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). Among them, IF represents the "gold standard". Arch Neurocien is not indexed in JCR. Aims: In the present study, an Estimated Impact Factor (EIF) for the journal was calculated. Method: The methodology from Clarivate Analytics was used. Results were compared with other indicators to obtain a quantitative diagnosis of journal's scientific impact. Results: Arch Neurocien showed an average of 0.39 citations/article. Most citations to Arch Neurocien appear in the same journal (self-citations), followed by Revista de Neurología (Spain) and Revista Mexicana de Neurociencias. Average EIF was 0.027±0.005. The highest EIF was 0.068 in 2001. EIF was significantly correlated with CiteScore (r=0.916, r²=0.840, p=0.010) and SJR (r=0.736, r²=0.543, p=0.001). Conclusion: Several strategies to improve the quality of its published articles are suggested, such as performing a complete revision of its editorial committee, promoting open access to its publications and developing strategies for its mass distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The analysis of the data obtained through different sources is presented along with reflections about the behavior of the production of scientific publications in engineering. Likewise, suggestions are proposed in order to improve the failures shown in the existing model of classification of Publindex-Colciencias Journals. The problematic situation given by the implementation of the new model of scientific journals classification in Colombia made it necessary to study the behavior of some of the most internationally used metrics (h-index and SJR) and nationally (Publindex) of Colombian Journals in Engineering. Among the most relevant conclusions are the fact that there are journals with a higher h5-index, classified on a lower category and that is a low number of citations in spite of the high amount of published works. Among the most relevant conclusions are the fact that there are journals with a higher h5-index, classified on a lower category and that there are low citations despite the large amount of published works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication that measures the impact of scientific publications through various measures of performance; of which, the Impact Factor is the most influential. Despite the popularity of this index, its use has not been exempt from some controversy, which is why additional indicators known as Altmetrics have been proposed in recent years. In general, all these indexes are grouped according to the algorithm of calculation of metrics in: based-ratios indicators, those that are obtained by dividing the total of citations among the total of products such as the impact factor; portfolio-based indicators, which are based on scores assigned to classified documents such as the HIndex; and network-based indicators, which consider the impact of the author within a wider network of citations such as the Scimago Journal Rank. Based on exhaustive documentary research, this review presents the most important characteristics of these indexes, grouping them according to the previous classification, and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each one of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The amount of quotation a scientific article receives is important for the academic impact. In the present study, we analyzed the 50 most cited articles in orthopedics and related areas published by mexican authors, as well as analyzing their main characteristics. Material and methods: A search was conducted using Web of Science, of the 50 articles with the largest number of quotation on orthopedics and related areas, in which the principal author or corresponding author had an address in Mexico. We analyzed the articles of 66 scientific journals within the category Orthopedics. We examined the quantity and density of citations, Origin institution, subspeciality to which the article corresponds, and level of evidence. Results: The most cited article had 222 cites. The 50 most cited articles accumulated a total of 1,944, with an average of 3.6 cites per year per article. The year with the largest number of publications was the 2011, and the year with the largest number of quotation was 2008. Public institutions had a larger number of publications in relation to private institutions. The subspecialty with the largest number of publications was arthroscopy and sport medicine. Most publications with a large number of citations refer to studies with a low level of evidence. Conclusions: The present study points out the 50 most cited articles published by mexican authors in orthopedics and related areas. There is a tendency towards publishing articles on some subspecialities, in particular on arthroscopy and sport medicine. Most publications have a low level of evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We inquired about the production and impact factor of scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals indexed during the years 2011 to 2017, by 277 graduates of doctoral programs in education taught by 8 Venezuelan universities. During the study period, a total of 36 articles were published whose authorship corresponds to a total of 21 doctors in education of the 277 that made up the study sample, with an impact factor of 0.300 as a result of a simulation carried out for articles published from 2013 to 2017. As an information gathering strategy, an inquiry was made in the InCites Journal Citation Reports database of ISI Web of Science. In general, the results reveal a low production of published articles, while the impact factor of the simulated journal is relatively acceptable when compared with that obtained by international journals in the educational area. Finally, it can be inferred that the low academic output may be associated with economic difficulties and scarcity of resources to investigate, regulatory aspects, as well as subjective reasons in the choice of doctoral studies in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Bibliometrics is the quantitative evaluation of scientific literature. It constitutes an objective and effective method to analyze the production of scientific communities. By using statistical data, called bibliometric indicators, it provides real information regarding scientific production process. Objective. To analyze the scientific production of MedUNAB journal during the last 18 years through bibliometric and impact indicators. Methodology. Bibliographic and analytical study of MedUNAB journal. Papers issued in the period between 1998 and 2016 were included in this study. Additionally, publications of supplementary type were excluded. The sample takes 573 papers. Those data were obtained from the printed and stored up version, were systematized in Microsoft Excel®, and were exported to STATA 14® software in order to analyze them. Descriptive statistical analyses of bibliometric variables related to management, production and impact were also carried out. Results. In MedUNAB, 19 volumes and 53 issues were published, which comprise 28.31% of the original articles. It was found that the total of the students-authors was 21.42%. 7.82% of manuscripts were identified as product of a research hotbed. 92.55% of papers has a national origin and, in consequence, 97.77% of all the articles is written in Spanish. It is evidenced a statistically relevant relationship between higher h5 index and publication year (p <0.01), national geographic distribution (p <0.01), article type (p <0.01), and category in the Sistema de Indexación y Homologación de Revistas Especializadas de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (national system for indexing and homologation of specialized magazines of science, technology and innovation) (p <0.01). Conclusions. Producing original articles and theme reviews constitutes one of the bases of an adequate h5 index, which implies a panorama where quality, not quantity, takes precedence. Bibliometric indicators are an objective vision of the editorial process and allow both the feedback and the consolidation of editorial policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The scientific publications are one of the basic dimensions of the evaluation of the quality of research of teaching and research personnel in Spain. The most used criterion for the evaluation is the publication of papers in journals included in the Web of Science (WoS) or Scopus databases. The objective of this work is to know that psychology journals, which publish works of legal psychology, are currently included in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases, offer an analysis and comparison of the quality indicators of the journals in these databases, in order that researchers working in this discipline know the status of publications in their field of knowledge and provide them with the best choice to publish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a concern that the pressure to increase the number of papers in high impact factor journals could be detrimental to the quality of research, and therefore, to the impact that it might have in the international scientific community. In this work, we have done a scientometric and statistical analysis of published articles by Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, and Mexican ecologists from 1975 to 2015, to test this hypothesis. H-index values (which measures an article's number of citations and total items published) were recorded in the top 10 journals for each country. While the number of publications grew exponentially in these four countries since 2000, we observed that the number of citations decreased markedly, which is to say that promoting scientific productivity by stimulating an increase in the number of publications in high impact factor journals, the dominant scientific policy in many Latin American countries, does not necessarily reflect greater insertion into the international scientific debate, but rather the current scientific policies have produced the opposite outcome. Publishing fewer papers, but with greater quality and depth, or perhaps dedicating ourselves to strengthening scientific and technological systems that are linked with local and regional needs (and evaluated accordingly), could be an alternative, but wiser, path to build a regional ecology with greater global impact, relevance, pertinence and visibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper argues the need to adapt the publication evaluation systems to the characteristics of the humanities, in order to overcome the current discrimination of these disciplines. Citation indicators applied to 2, 3, or 5 years of publication provide poor and distorted statistics for journal evaluation. The citation period should be extended and the classification system refined. On the other hand, it is essential to strengthen the incipient sources about monograph quality and publication modality with a central weight in the humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study identifies trends in public relations research at international level based on pubilshed papers in the Journal of Public Relations Research from 2012 to 2014. Furthermore, it aims at evaluating this journal as a prospective communication channel for Spanish researchers in public relations. The analysis includes a rating of contents, authorship, citations and whether the concept "public relations" appears literally in the title, the abstract or both. Main results reveal a prevalence of northamerican authors, mainly women working on applied research on a wide range of topics, mainly crisis communication, public opinion and emerging technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the necessity of reviewing the context of the evaluation of academic work in order to understand the difficulties faced by Latin American academic journals in order to comply with evaluation requirements through the use of an impact factor and interaction with companies that make use of it. It further describes the influence exercised by commercial publishers over the production and circulation of knowledge. It examines some of the strategies followed by Latin American journals to increase visibility of the knowledge, while presenting the situation condition of Mexican educational research journals in international and regional databases. Finally, the paper analyses the national evaluation criteria and policies of Mexican research journals in order to reveal the mechanisms employed to overcome obstacles that a process of this nature entails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: the assessment of journals is undoubtedly a continuous process that is determined by the quality of scientific papers and authors' recognition of the most cited scientific journals. Objective: to describe the ranking of Cuban medical journals according to the h5-index. Methods: a bibliometric study of all scientific journals related to Cuban medical sciences included in the Virtual Health Library was conducted. The h5-index and the h5-median obtained through Google Scholar Metrics were used to calculate the ranking. Results: eighty two point seven percent of Cuban medical journals have an h5-index registered in Google Scholar Metrics. Seventy two percent are indexed in SciELO Cuba. The average h5-index for Cuban medical journals is 6.88 and the h-median is 6.00. For those indexed in SciELO Cuba, the h5-index is 7.60. The h5-index of journals published by ECIMED is 8.69; showing significant differences in relation to other publishers in the country. Among the top 20 Cuban medical journals according to the Google Scholar H5-index, only seven are not edited by ECIMED. Conclusions: the assessment of national journals using the h5-index is vital, even considering its weaknesses, since most of these journals are not included in databases such as Scopus and WOS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The activity analysis of a scientific journal is relevant to know the evolution of its characteristics over time. In this paper, results of a bibliometric study of the Revista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation (Costa Rica) are presented. The goal of this study was to describe the main characteristics of its scientific production, and analyze its level of collaboration and its impact between the years 2003-2012. Data was derived from the Web of Science (Thomson-Reuters), and the relationship among authors and coauthors, institutions and countries, and their links with the citations received were analyzed for that period. Descriptive statistics about production (number of documents per year, institution and country), collaboration (authorship index, collaboration among institutions and countries) and impact (IF, position in JCR and number of citations received) were collected. Results showed that the journal has published 1 473 papers in this period, in similar proportions English and Spanish. Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia are the most common countries of origin, with the Universidad of Costa Rica, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico and the University of Puerto Rico as the most common leader institutions. Collaboration between authors, institutions and countries has shown an increasing trend over the last decade. The co-author index was 3.07 per document, 63 % of publications included 2 or more institutions, and 22 % of the papers were product of international collaboration. The most common collaboration link was between Costa Rica and the United States of America. The impact factor has been oscillating during this last decade, reaching a maximum in 2012 (IF JCR = 0.553). Besides, 10 % of the most cited papers concentrated half of the citations received by the journal, and have a very high number of citations, compared with the journal mean. The main countries that cite the journal were USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Costa Rica. Data showed an increasing collaboration between authors, institutions and countries, and a direct relationship between the increase of this collaboration and the received impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective was to compare the impact factor to 2 years of self-citations (IF2Y) with impact factor 2 years without self-citations (IF2YWS) and IF2Y with the impact factor to 5 years (IF5Y) as well as IF2YWS with SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) about journals where they were published articles of excellence in smoking by Spanish authors in the period 2008-2012. The search was conducted in the SCI-E and the SSCI-E on November 25, 2013. Were selected documents that had the h index of the strategy global sample (number of articles that have at least that number of citations) to search using the descriptors "smok *" OR "tobac *". A total of 69 articles by Spanish authors were recovered from 55 journals. We found an almost perfect correlation between IF2Y and IF2YWS, reaching IF2Y the highest values. We also found an almost perfect correlation between IF2Y and IF5Y with good agreement, reaching FI5a highest values with a great variability and heterogeneity between journals. The correlation between IF2YWS and SJR is poor with a low concordance. Systematically, the IF2YWS have always higher values than SJR and both indicators measure, therefore, different aspects, not be extrapolated or interchangeable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The reason of higher number of citations of some articles is discussed. Some considerations about the journals' impact factor, its merits and its pitfalls are also made. Scientific journals' impact factor, popularized by the Institute for Scientific Information, has become an objective parameter for authors' evaluation and also for institutions and other related circumstances. There is no reason for the impact factor's gap between some English journals and those written in other languages. English journals probably benefit of the "Mathew's effect", according to which eminent scientists are more rewarded by similar contributions than others less known. It is paradoxical that most of the major achievements of our age do not appear among the 100 most cited articles. There is no homogeneity among all the articles appearing in each scientific journal: half of the articles are cited ten times more than the other half. However, those articles cited 0 times are credited like the better ones. Each article should be evaluated by its own citations, which would be its impact factor; the authors should be evaluated by their H index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After 36 years of continued publication of the journal Nutrición Hospitalaria, a list with the ten most cited articles published in it is elaborated. The top ten most cited articles in the world literature and stratification according to language, English or Spanish, subject, or period of time published are also analyzed. Nutr Hosp is the most important Ibero latin American nutrition journal. Nutr Hosp published 369 items in 2014 gaining the fourth position among all the world's journals devoted to nutrition. Article publication in English, or simultaneously in Spanish and English and Open Access policy probably benefit the number of citations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The internationally most widely used criterion to evaluate scientific journals is based on the value of the impact Factor (FI) generated from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) database published annually on the Web of Science platform from Thomson Reuters. The central argument of this article is that the most complete form of evaluation of the work of scientists through metrics of easy access and general scope as the index h of Hirsch from the database of Google Scholar, plus some other considerations. The author recognizes that if the goal to achieve is to measure the impact of purely academic research, the JCR impact Factor (FI) is the most appropriate means, but if the objective is to measure the impact of research in the real world, then other metrics and assessment criteria should be used. Here it is suggested that the true relevance of the publications is reflected in a more natural way among a heterogeneous user audience with the information included in the Google Scholar platform. For developing countries, the paper highlights that it is more important to define their policies of support for research than to seek greater international visibility or global relevance of their journals. It has been shown here that the message is the important subject matter and not the means of publication. Nevertheless, scientific journals do deserve indeed the greatest attention by the responsible authorities of the sciences in developing countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Impact Factor (IF) is considered the best quality indicator for evaluation of scientific journals but has been criticized on many accounts, and its limitations have already been described extensively. New bibliometrics indicators, accepted by the scientific community, has been considered to evaluate quality ranking for journals using more complex algorithms and other databases. The aim of this study was to evaluated three indices of journal scientific impact: (IF), Eigenfactor Score (ES), and SCImago Journal Rank indicator (SJR), of mainstream Anatomy and Morphology journals in 2014. Specific anatomical and morphological journals were selected from Anatomy & Morphology category of Web of Science. The 2014 IFs and ESs were obtained from Journal Citation Report® and the SJR from the SCImago Journal and country rank website. We listed the journals and retrieved information by matching their international standard serial number. All journals were compared regarding their 2014 IF, ES and SJR and correlations between indices were evaluated using Pearson correlation. Twenty Anatomy and Morphology journals were identified, all indexed in both databases. The highest IF was 17 and lower 0.318. According to Eigenfactor score, the first place in the ranking was 0.01843 and the lower 0.00044, and to JRS the first position to 1.795 and the last position to 0.228. None of the journals had the same ranking to compare different indicators. Comparison between the IF and EF as well as the SJR yielded negative correlation (r= -0.012 and r= -0.037, respectively). All the analyzed journals have the highest standard of quality since they are indexed in the two most prestigious databases, WoS and Scopus. IF is the main index used by researchers for ranking the anatomy and morphology journals, but several shortcomings should be taken into account when they are using this index alone. SJR and ES can be more accurate quality indexes in certain conditions. It is recommended considering all these indices when judging the quality of the anatomy and morphology journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article critically analyses the productive and evaluative system of the academia in the field of social sciences in general, and communication sciences in particular. Departing from a specific interpretation of its structure (the "modern cultural academic practice"), it proposes a typology of contemporary researchers as well as deconstructs the standardized discourse research as a mechanism of universal validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 80s in the country arise numerous projects, healthcare centers, research institutions and teaching centers in the field of neurosciences, discipline integrated by a set of scientific specialties that interact in the study of the nervous system. The Center of Neurological Restoration (CIREN) was founded in 1989. This work has as main objective to characterize the scientific production in impact journals since 1989 until 2013 through a bibliometric study. Indicators of productivity, collaboration, circulation and visibility were used to study 341 articles published in impact journals. The main information source was the database Neuro reports of the Journal Citation Report, PubMed y GoPubMed, among other. The study results show that 35 % of 975 publications produced in the institution, are articles in impact journals, 28% of them in collaboration with national and international institutions. 91% were published in journals of England, USA, Holland and Spain. The publications are indexed in recognized international databases. The most approached themes are the basic research and the clinic research. The biggest production for years, in 1998-2003 and from 2007 it remains above 10. The disclosure of the obtained results by these publications, has made known to the international scientific community the CIREN work, has also favored the collaboration with other institutions and besides has stimulated the production of results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Of researchers working in major research centers and public universities in the northern state of Sinaloa, Mexico, a diagnosis of the number of scientific and technical articles published in journals that are in the Science Journal Citation Reports is performed to this databases of some of the institutions mentioned, as well as internet consultation and personal reviewed. Disclosed the range and average impact factor of articles. Research centers are so presented a higher number of indexed journals, however when comparing the average impact factor with some of the institutions and public universities similar results were obtained. Clearly still low productivity high impact scientific articles in upstate despite the productive economic dynamism presents this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The h-index is a bibliometric indicator that refers to the number of h citations an author or a journal has received in other publications. This article reviews the impact factor of the index, in addition to examining its application in the field of communication and the h impact of scientific journals in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fraud in scientific publishing is a drag on the release of research papers, the causes of which should be analyzed. To the reprehensible conduct of researchers who commit fraud one can add the bias the scientific publications and the Internet search engines can introduce to the processes of selection, validation, and calculation of the impact factors of papers already submitted and published. This article offers a reflection on the issue, as a result of related new data having recently been published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Use of the Impact Factor is currently being discarded in industrialized countries where, to name one case, up to 40% of the articles published in Nature are never cited, despite the high Impact Factor of that journal. However, it is still used in Latin America to evaluate journals and authors, potentially influencing who are given positions and who receives funding. To find out how valid the Impact Factor is for Latin American research, I used the database BINABITROP to see how much of the relevant literature was used to measure impact. I found that the Science Citation Index (SCI) excluded 96% of the relevant literature when measuring the impact of bio- logical articles about Costa Rica for the studied year (2011). Therefore, the impact of Latin American science is unknown and the Impact Factor should not be used to assess how often a journal, institution or author are cited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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