Revista Española de Documentación Científica is a scientific journal published by CSIC and edited at CCHS addressed to specialists in the field of Library and Information Science and those involved in the use of scientific and technical information for science policy and decision making. REDC includes research papers subjected to peer review process, dealing with experimental and theoretical topics, particularly in the following fields:

- Measurement of scientific outputs (scientometrics, webmetrics, altmetrics indicators).
- Networks and information systems.
- Evaluation of: journals; new information sources; information retrieval/visualization tools; scientific and technological databases.
- Innovation and knowledge exchange and transfer.
- Open science and social impact of research.
- Libraries and archives; information management; information treatment and analysis.

Founded in 1977 it began to be available online in 2007, in PDF format, maintaining printed edition until 2013. That year it became an electronic journal publishing in PDF, HTML and XML-JATS. Contents of previous issues are also available in PDF files.

REDC is indexed in Web of Science: Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); SCOPUS, CWTS Leiden Ranking (Journal indicators), ERIH Plus, REDIB, DOAJ and other national and international databases. It is indexed in Latindex Catalogue 2.0 and has obtained the FECYT Seal of Quality.

Journal Impact Factor (JIF) 2022 (2 years): 1.200
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) 2022 (5 years): 1.100
Rank by JIF: 62/84 (Q3, Information Science & Library Science)
Source: Clarivate Analytics©, Journal Citation Reports®

Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 2022: 0.26
Rank by JCI: 98/161 (Q3, Information Science & Library Science)
Source: Clarivate Analytics©, Journal Citation Reports®

Eigenfactor / Percentile 2022: 0.00035
Article influence/ Percentile 2022: 0.266
Eigenfactor Category: Information Science
Source: University of Washington©, EigenFACTOR®

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Ethical Code

Plagiarism Detection

Digital Identifiers

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Research Data Policy

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2024-06-30

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