Abstract

QUEVEDO-BLASCO, RAÚL  and  LOPEZ-LOPEZ, WILSON. Status of iberomerican journals of psychology at the 2010 Journal Citation Reports. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.3, pp.937-947. ISSN 1657-9267.

The aim of this study is to show the current landscape of the visibility and popularity of scientific journals in psychology published in Latin American countries, according to a recent Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2010. This is a descriptive study using analysis of documents. We analyzed a total of 18 journals, ofwhich 61.11 % (11) are Spanish, 33.33 % (6) are Latin American and 5.55 % (1) Portuguese, 50 % are indexed in the category of "Psychology. Multidisciplinary " and the Latin American magazine with the Impact Factor (IF) 2010 Universitas Psychologica is higher (1.283), followed by Psicología: Reflexão e Crítica (1.124). Contradictorily, Latin American j ournal that has obtained the highest indexed IF fits the category of "Psychology. Clinical" and it is about International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology (1.842).

Keywords : Latin American journals; Journal Citation Reports; Impact Factor; Immediacy Index; Scientometrics; scientific production; databases; psychology.

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