Las revistas académicas: entre la evaluación y el cumplimiento de su función social.

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]