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Ingeniería e Investigación

versão impressa ISSN 0120-5609

Ing. Investig. vol.36 no.3 Bogotá set./dez. 2016

 

Editorial

Visibility of the Ingeniería e Investigación Journal

The recent publication by Colciencias of the call 768 of 2016 for Indexing of Specialized Colombian Scientific Journals - Publindex1 has generated diverse discussions throughout the country on aspects such as the national policy of dissemination of scientific knowledge, the way in which the measurement model Publindex responds to the interests of the national scientific community, and what will be the impact on the dissemination of the knowledge heritage that the national journals have compiled.

Many of the discussions have revolved around the visibility and impact of national journals, as well as their role within the national research ecosystem. Previous editorial notes have dealt with aspects of positioning and impact based on the Google Scholar index h5 (Pavas, 2016), comparing the categories of Colciencias with the quartiles of international databases such as Scopus and Web of Science (in Pavas, 2015). The present editorial note intends to give an overview of the visibility of the Ingeniería e Investigación Journal - I & I.

According to Ramírez, Martínez & Castellanos (2012, p.116) "the visibility of a journal can be defined as the possibility that potential users in any part of the world have to find the information contained in it, through own, institutional or external repositories". On the other hand, from an alternative metrics perspective, the visibility reached by a publication can also be used to measure its impact as proposed in Uribe, Vallejo & Betancur (2016). In this same source it is proposed to quantitatively assess visibility through the number of queries and downloads of published articles, which gives an idea of the interest of the scientific community in a publication.

In Ramírez, Castellanos & Rodríguez (2011) the strategies of positioning of the Ingeniería e Investigación Journal were presented, as well as the spaces that have enabled the improvement of its visibility and impact. The spaces in which the current I & I Journal divulges the published products are:

  • Web of Science by Thomson Reuters. Available worldwide (limited access).

  • Scopus, database owned by the Editorial Group Elseiver. Available worldwide (limited access).

  • Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO, Colombia (open access).

  • Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (open access).

  • Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal - Redalyc (open access).

  • Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ (open access).

  • Dialnet. Site for the diffusion of Hispanic scientific production (open access).

  • Latindex. Regional Online Information System for Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (open access).

  • Publindex. Despite not being a repository, it lists a catalogue of Colombian journals.

The above list shows that the I & I Journal has positioned itself in repositories and citation databases that cover access and visibility in commercial publishing spaces, and is also present in the most representative open access spaces worldwide. Therefore, the I & I Journal offers the possibility of access to its contents to all the Spanish and English speaking public.

As for the quantitative assessment of visibility, Table 1 shows the number of articles published in recent years.

The amount of article downloads cannot be evaluated from a single repository. In this note we will observe the downloads in the Open Journal System of the National University of Colombia - OJS-UN, Redalyc and SciELO. The results of the number of total downloads reported by each repository are shown in Table 2. The OJS-UN does not discriminate in detail the PDF and HTML downloads of the articles, for which the table shows the total discharges; for Redalyc and SciELO the PDF downloads reported by each repository are shown. The data available in each repository at the time in which this editorial note was written are shown.

Although the information on the downloads of each article can be determined in detail, it is possible to make an approximate evaluation of the downloads per article with the download totals of each year in relation to the total articles published until the year in question. The number of articles existing before 2012 is different in each repository: in OJS-UN the complete collection of the Journal can be found, with 1030 articles between 1981 and 2011; Redalyc has 493 articles from 2002 to 2011; and SciELO 422, from 2005 to 2011. The results of the number of downloads per article are shown in Table 3.

The data in Tables 2 and 3 shows a remarkable number of downloads with an increasing tendency in recent years. In particular, it can be observed that SciELO contributes with the largest number of downloads of journal articles, which is significantly higher than the downloads per article of OJS-UN and Redalyc. In conclusion, it can be evidenced that the Ingeniería e Investigación Journal offers an extensive and worldwide visibility, and that the downloads of its articles represent a continuous and growing interest.

Once again we thank the authors, reviewers and readers for their invaluable contributions and interest. The Ingeniería e Investigación Journal continues to make enormous efforts, with the support of the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Colombia, to spread scientific knowledge in engineering.


Note

1 Available in: http://www.colciencias.gov.co/convocatorias/investigacion/convocatoria-para-indexacion-revistas-cientificas-colombianas.


References

Pavas, A. (2015). Ranking de revistas científicas colombianas: el caso de ingeniería. Ingeniería e Investigación. 35(3), 3-4.         [ Links ]

Pavas, A. (2016). Estado del indicador h5 en revistas colombianas de ingeniería. Ingeniería e Investigación. 36(1), 3-5.         [ Links ]

Ramírez D.C., Martínez Ruiz, L. C., & Castellanos Domínguez, O.F. (2012). Divulgación y Difusión del conocimiento: las revistas científicas. Programa Interdisciplinario de Investigación y Desarrollo en Gestión, Productividad y Competitividad -Biogestión. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 184p.         [ Links ]

Ramírez Martínez, D., Castellanos Domínguez, O., & Rodríguez Devis, J. (2011). Popularising and appropriating engineering knowledge: an opportunity for innovation. Ingeniería e Investigación, 31(1SUP), 63-73. Retrieved from http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv/article/view/27928.         [ Links ]

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