Ranking de revistas científicas en Latinoamérica mediante el índice h: estudio de caso Colombia

Autores/as

  • Mauricio Romero-Torres Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática (UNESIS), Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
  • Luis Alberto Acosta-Moreno Unidad de Ecología y Sistemática (UNESIS), Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
  • María Alejandra Tejada-Gómez Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2013.1.876

Palabras clave:

Google Académico, índice h, Colombia, ranking, políticas

Resumen


El futuro de las revistas científicas en Latinoamérica es incierto. La incapacidad de calcular indicadores bibliométricos útiles para clasificarlas y homologarlas con cuartiles de referencia mundial reducen su visibilidad. Por ejemplo, las revistas colombianas clasificadas en la Base Bibliográfica Nacional Publindex (BBNP) bajo las categorías A1, A2, B y C, poseen baja indexación en bases de datos internacionales como Web of Science o Scopus, limitando la estimación de indicadores bibliométricos para su comparación a nivel internacional. Como estudio de caso se seleccionaron 211 revistas de la BBNP-2008, tomando artículos publicados entre 2003 y 2007. Utilizando Google Académico, el software Publish or Perish y la base de datos Scopus, se cuantificaron y compararon indicadores de productividad e impacto para construir un ranking local (Q1-Q4) y realizar una homologación internacional con Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). El índice h resultó el mejor indicador para generar un ranking basado en cuartiles (Q1-Q4) de 170 revistas colombianas, homologables con cuartiles de SJR. Se propone esta metodología para clasificar y homologar las revistas latinoamericanas no indexadas, como herramienta útil para editores, editoriales, empresas de información y tomadores de decisiones en políticas públicas de educación, ciencia y tecnología a nivel regional y mundial.

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2013-03-30

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Romero-Torres, M., Acosta-Moreno, L. A., & Tejada-Gómez, M. A. (2013). Ranking de revistas científicas en Latinoamérica mediante el índice h: estudio de caso Colombia. Revista Española De Documentación Científica, 36(1), e003. https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2013.1.876

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