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Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología

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ACEVEDO-TRIANA, César et al. Productivity Analysis and Impact of Colombian Psychology Journals between 2000 and 2016. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.50, n.3, pp.145-159. ISSN 0120-0534.  https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.2018.v50.n3.2.

The growing output of Colombian psychology journals over past decades leads to questions regarding the regional and international relevance and impact of their productivity. Considering the lack of recent efforts to assess the output of these journals across different information sources, the present study analyzed the production, collaboration, and impact of Colombian psychology journals between 2000 and 2016 using information from the following databases: Scopus, Scielo, Redalyc, and Journal Scholar Metrics. We analyzed 3915 articles published across 13 journals. A journal was included in the analysis if it was indexed in several of these databases, which allowed for multiple comparisons. We observed journals' diversification and growth across all the proposed indicators, with different degrees of visibility and quality depending on the criteria used. Although all the journals generally showed similar regional and international results, some excelled across indicators, which in turn challenges other journals to improve their scores. We conclude that Colombian production in psychology is visible on a regional level. Moreover, journals need to increase some of the indicators so they can be compared with other regional and international open-access benchmarks, which is the model in which they were originally conceived.

Keywords : Scientometric analysis; Journals of Psychology; Citation and impact.

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