Abstract

OLIVAS-AVILA, José Alonso; MUSI-LECHUGA, Bertha; QUEVEDO-BLASCO, Raúl  and  LUNA-HERNANDEZ, Jesús Rene. Internationality Index of iberoamerican Psychology journals contained in Journal Citation Reports (2011). rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.44, n.3, pp.175-183. ISSN 0120-0534.

The inclusion of scientific journals to the world widerecognized Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) (Thomson Reuters currently) and specifically in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) has attracted interest on the dynamic circumstances regarding research activities described in iberoamerican psychology journals. Such interest has led to structural changes in the formal criteria of the evaluation processes of scientific journals which are aimed at achieving high-quality standards. Therefore, the aim of this research is to measure the Internationality Index of the 19 iberoamerican psychology journals included in Journal Citation Reports 2011. Results show an increasing diversity that the scores in the internationality index point to a growing diversity of the editorial board and a greater diversity of articles by authors from different countries in each journal, even in collaboration. Finally, journals have been progressively acquired more diverse diffusion strategies and languages of publication, highlighting English as the common discursive form of science.

Keywords : Internationality Index; Iberoamerican journals; Psychology; Journal Citation Reports.

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