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IBERO-AMERICA IN MAINSTREAM SCIENCE (WEB OF SCIENCE / SCOPUS): A FRAGMENTED REGION
journal contribution
posted on 2017-08-01, 21:27 authored by Néstor Daniel Martínez-DomínguezNéstor Daniel Martínez-Domínguez, Eduardo Aguado–Lopez, Ariana Becerril–García, Miguel Leal ArriolaIn order to learn about the coverage of Ibero-American journals
by the JCR 2012-Web of Science and SJR 2012-Scopus indexes,
both indexes were examined during the first fortnight of
September 2013, so as to find the number of Ibero-American
journals, their field of knowledge and the quartile they are at.
The number of Ibero-American journals in JCR amounts to 375,
while in SJR it is 1044, there being an important concentration
in Spain and Brazil. In order to observe the whole region in a
horizontal perspective, we propose its division into three sub-regions:
Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), Brazil and therest
of Latin America. Iberian Peninsula and Brazil concentrate
more than 60% of the publications, whereas in Latin America,
the weight of Mexico, Colombia and Chile implies invisibility for other countries. The heaviest weight leans toward the natural
sciences, with under-representation of social sciences and
humanities, whose local/national journals are the most suitable
channels to disseminate research results. Although some findings
may be of interest to the international community, most of them
are specific problems to their countries, where, the local media
are the natural diffusion channel to disseminate its work, without
being necessarily part of an worldwide scientific dialogue. At
both indexes, the positioning of Ibero-American journals is very
low, with only five Spanish journals in the first citation quartile
in JCR, whilst in SJR there are 32 journals in the first quartile,
of which 29 are edited in Brazil and Spain, and the rest are published
in Mexico, Argentina and Peru.