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The evaluation of the quality of scientific journals is a topical issue. The implementation of an evaluation policy based on international indicators has contributed to improving the quality and visibility of journals from different countries, measured through their indexing in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) databases. Currently, in some countries, such as Spain, the main criterion used to evaluate the performance of individuals, institutions or research groups is the number of publications made, especially in high impact journals in the JCR. However, the adoption of international evaluation criteria based on the JCR has been the subject of numerous criticisms by researchers, who are forced to send their research papers to foreign journals to the detriment of the journals of their own country, since in order to obtain a positive evaluation it is fundamental to publish in high demand journals, mainly published in English. In this competitive environment, where the pressure to publish in quality journals is a reality, it is useful to know the profile of the journals of your specialty in order to be able to select the one that is most appropriate for the dissemination of your own work., This work has been done thanks to the support and a research grant provided to the project “Structure and dynamics of the research of excellence in Spain from a gender perspective” (“Estructura y dinámica de la investigación de excelencia en España desde una perspectiva de género”) provided by the own program of research aid - Programa Propio de Ayudas a la Investigación - at the Universitat de València (UV-INV-AE18-785252).

[ES]: [Introducción]: La evaluación de la actividad investigadora en España, otorga reconocimiento personal y social a profesores e investigadores y condiciona su carrera académica. Los artículos publicados en revistas incluidas en el Journal Citation Reports (JCR), son los más necesarios para conseguir la acreditación personal y sexenios de investigación. En este trabajo, se analiza la situación de las revistas de educación incluidas actualmente en los JCR (SCIE y SSCI). [Metodología]: la muestra la conformaron 340 revistas incluidas en las categorías temáticas Education & Educational Research, Special, Education y Psychology Educational de la edición del JCR del Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) del 2016. Se estudia la distribución por países, cuartiles, idioma de publicación e institución editora. Se estudia la distribución por países, cuartiles, idioma de publicación e institución editora. [Resultados]: A lo largo de los últimos diez años, el número de revistas de educación ha ido aumentando en las bases de datos JCR en todas las categorías temáticas excepto en la categoría Education, Special. Solamente 8 países tienen revistas de educación situadas en posiciones de privilegio (cuartiles 1 y 2). Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Holanda y España, son los cuatro países con mayor número de revistas en los cuartiles 1 y 2. En cuanto al idioma de publicación, el inglés y el español son los idiomas más utilizados. Se observa que un gran número de revistas españolas publican sus trabajos en inglés y en español. Las tres revistas españolas con mayor factor de impacto: Comunicar, Revista de Educación y Revista de Psicodidáctica, publican sus trabajos en inglés y español. [Conclusiones]: Se concluye que, en el caso de las revistas españolas de educación, la publicación de los trabajos en inglés y español, contribuye a una mayor difusión de los mismos entre la comunidad científica nacional e internacional, aumentando su visibilidad y factor de impacto., [EN]: [Introduction]: The evaluation of scientific activity in Spain grants personal and social recognition to professors and researchers and conditions their academic career. Articles published in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), are the most necessary to achieve personal accreditation and sexennial research recognition. In this paper, the situation of the education journals currently included in both JCR (SCIE and SSCI) are analysed. [Methodology]: the sample contained 340 journals included in the Education & Educational Research, Special, Education and Psychology Educational subject categories in the 2016 JCR Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) edition. The distribution by countries, quartiles, language of publication and publishing institution is studied. [Results]: Throughout the last ten years, the number of education journals has increased in the JCR databases in all of the subject categories except in Education, Special. Only 8 countries have education journals in privileged positions (quartiles 1 and 2). The United States of America, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain are the four countries with the highest number of journals in quartiles 1 and 2. Regarding the publication language, English and Spanish are the most used languages. It is also observed that a great number of Spanish journals publish both in English and Spanish. The three Spanish journals with greater impact factor are: Comunicar, Revista de Educación and Revista de Psicodidáctica, all publish in English and Spanish. [Conclusions]: Therefore it is concluded, that in the case of Spanish educational journals, the publication of the works both in English and Spanish language contributes to a greater diffusion of the papers among the national and international scientific community, increasing its visibility and impact factor.

Çocuk edebiyatı birçok farklı disiplinin ilgisini çekmiş ve hem toplumsal alanda hem de okul ve üniversite programlarında önemli bir yer tutmuştur. Bu çalışmanın amacı çocuk edebiyatındaki eser üretimini incelemek ve Web of Science veri tabanında dizinlenmiş uluslararası bilimsel dergilerde bu alanda yayımlanmış bilimsel çalışmaları belirlemektir. 474 dergide yayımlanmış olan toplam 1,558 çalışma incelenmiştir. Bulgular, zamanla çocuk edebiyatı alanında yapılmış çalışmaların sayısında bir artış olduğunu göstermektedir. Ayrıca, alandaki çalışmalar çok fazla çeşitlilik göstermekle beraber üretilen çalışmaların %85 ini bilimsel makaleler ve kitap incelemeleri oluşturmaktadır. Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature in Education, ve International Research in Children’s Literature dergilerinin en çok çalışmanın yayımlandığı dergiler oldukları tesbit edilmiştir. Analizi yapılan dergiler 96 farklı konu başlığı altında sınıflandırılmış olup, Edebiyat ve Eğitim Araştırmaları bölümleri en çok sayıda yayının sınıflandırıldığı başlıklar olarak öne çıkmıştır., Children’s literature has raised the interest of different disciplines and has strongly emerged not only in society but also in school and university curricula. This paper aims to analyse production in children’s literature and determine the discipline’s scientific activity published in international scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science. A total of 1,558 papers published in 474 journals were retrieved. The results show an increase in the number of papers on children’s literature over time. Document typology was highly diverse, scientific articles and book reviews accounting for more than 85% of the total production. Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature in Education, and International Research in Children’s Literature were the journals with the highest production. The journals analysed were classified under 96 different subject categories, Literature and Educational research being the areas with the largest number of publications.

Resumen del rabajo presentado en la International Conference on Education and New Developments, celebrada en Budapest (Hungría) del 23 al 25 de junio de 2018., The evaluation of the quality of scientific journals is a topical issue. The implementation of an evaluation policy based on international indicators has contributed to improving the quality and visibility of journals from different countries, measured through their indexing in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) databases. Currently, in some countries, such as Spain, the main criterion used to evaluate the performance of individuals, institutions or research groups is the number of publications made, especially in high impact journals in the JCR. However, the adoption of international evaluation criteria based on the JCR has been the subject of numerous criticisms by researchers, who are forced to send their research papers to foreign journals to the detriment of the journals of their own country, since in order to obtain a positive evaluation it is fundamental to publish in high demand journals, mainly published in English. In this competitive environment, where the pressure to publish in quality journals is a reality, it is useful to know the profile of the journals of your specialty in order to be able to select the one that is most appropriate for the dissemination of your own work.

Children's literature has raised the interest of different disciplines and has strongly emerged not only in society but also in school and university curricula. This paper aims to analyse production in children's literature and determine the discipline's scientific activity published in international scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science. A total of 1,558 papers published in 474 journals were retrieved. The results show an increase in the number of papers on children's literature over time. Document typology was highly diverse, scientific articles and book reviews accounting for more than 85% of the total production. Lion and the Unicorn, Children's Literature in Education, and International Research in Children's Literature were the journals with the highest production. The journals analysed were classified under 96 different subject categories, Literature and Educational research being the areas with the largest number of publications.