Scientific Journals Международная научно-практическая конференция «Научное издание международного уровня: проблемы и решения при подготовке и включении в индексы цитирования и реферативные базы данных» мая 2012 г., ВИНИТИ РАН, Москва, Россия The Importance of National and Regional Journal Systems Identity and impact Lic. Cecilia Mabragaña Gerencia de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico- CONICET

Scientific Journals Mission of scientific publishing  Assure visibility, optimize accessibility to re-use and remix validated results …but…dissemination of valuable material depend on editorial excellence and peer review …and… for the evaluation and impact of articles, the scientific community relays on indexing services and journal databases.

Scientific Journals Strategies to promote scientific journals Three basic requirements: Professionalism: editorial processes. Organize an orderly workflow- Open Journal System has introduced methodology to the handling of manuscripts (transformed amateur editors) Quality: Passing peer-review Excellence: means winning in a competitive framework. Ranking and measurements Scientific Journals

 Local journals do not receive a substancial number of articles and they loose visibility.  This situation literally deprives Latin American journals of their best contributions.  Local Journals will be condemned to a secondary role. Regional Problems

Scientific Journals Visible part of scientific production Lost science Our Journals??????

Scientific Journals Different approaches: one goal LATINDEX : Directory of journals SciELO: two notions of excellence, one central, pushing the regional journals into the Web of Science and more recently SCOPUS and one regional. Selecting the best journals in the region and promoting them localy and internationally. Developing metrics of its own database. REDALYC: portal of Open Access journals, initially for the Social Sciences & Humanities. Today all disciplines (750 journals) Scientific Journals

Regional Systems (1) It is a regional cooperative network (22 countries) Includes scientific, technical, professional and cultural journals edited in Ibero-America ( titles) Countries participating: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominicana, Ecuador, El Salvador, España, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Venezuela y Uruguay. Standards : descriptions; editorial criteria Common set of quality criteria for Latin America

Scientific Journals Regional Systems (1 cont.) PRODUCTS: Directory: journals. Description and principal characteristics Catalog: journals. Selection of journals according to the established standards (32) Index: journals. Selection of electronic journals according to the established standards (36)

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 RED DE REVISTAS CIENTÍFICAS DE AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE, ESPAÑA Y PORTUGAL SISTEMA DE INFORMACIÓN CIENTÍFICA REDALYC Portal of Open Access Journals Initially developed to take care of the Social Sciences & Humanities 756 journals (539 corresponding to the Social Sciences & Humanities) Starting in 2008 new criteria adopted for inclusion in the portal Module A = 12 basic criteria, compulsory = 30,76% Moldule B = 27 editorial criteria Module C = 8 quality criteria Minimum score to be accepted = 82% 69,24%

Scientific Journals Regional Electronic Cooperative Model SciELO: is a model for cooperative electronic publishing= Recovering the “lost science” Visibility accesibility Integrated tools for the measurement of usage SciELO Model comprises 3 components Methodology Searchable full text,preservation,journal evaluation Operate web sites collections and thematic sites Partnerships among national, international scientific communication players: authors, editors, funding agencies, editors, universities, libraries.

Scientific Journals Regional Electronic Cooperative Model SciELO Goals Short term: to radically increase national and international visibility and credibility. Long term: to increase the impact of the scientific literature of the region. Admission Criteria Scientific content Peer review Editorial Board Frequency, lifetime Timeliness Standard editorial criteria Authors affiliation Titles, abstracts, key words in ENGLISH

Scientific Journals Are these strategies successful? The institutions involved in the evaluation processes, support these regional projects? Paradox: national granting agencies demean national publication …. relay too much in the “impact factor and international metrics” Negative impact in the regional and national publishing groups On the one hand, promote regional national efforts, on the other hand, on the evaluation level, these journals account for little Scientific Journals

Non written rules: vicious circle  “Foreign publications…. Are better.”  “Foreign publications ignore local and regional themes.”  “National, local journals only receive articles rejected by “maintream journals”  “Under current evaluation practices, national journals are rated poorly”  Why publish in a good national journal, when I can publish in a not so good, but foreign journal”

Scientific Journals Argentina. A national example  The role of CONICET  10 years of continuous development: a gradient of quality and excellence  New challenges  Changing the evaluation process

Scientific Journals Dr. Bernardo Houssay, CONICET founder. First Science Nobel Price in Latin America In 1947 the Sweden Academy awarded B. Houssay with the Nobel Price of Physiology and Medicine for his scientific discoveries on the role of the hormone released by the hypophysis in the carbohydrate metabolism.

Scientific Journals CONICET TODAY It is an economic self-sufficient agency of the Argentine State. It is the main organization dedicated to the promotion and development of science and technology in Argentina. It carries out activities in four broad areas of knowledge: Agriculture, Engineering and Materials Biology and Health Exact and Natural Sciences Social and Human Sciences. Technology is the main tool of all of them.

Scientific Journals CONICET Institutional Network The new institutional structure leads to a greater Federal stance of Centers and Institutes

Scientific Journals Classification of Argentine Scientific journals (a gradient) Basic Identification Data: Title, Beginning year, ISSN, Editorial Institutión, discipline. LATINDEX CATALOG NUCLEO BASICO LATINDEX DIRECTORY SciELO Set of 32 editorial Criteriae (Basic, Presentation, editorial mangement, content): Journals that comply with minimum 25 criteria are included and at least 2/3 years backfiles. Scientific Interdisciplinary Evaluating Committee Journals included in the CATALOG are selected for excellence for their scientific content. Electronic Journals in Nucleo Basico and with technical possibilities (metadata) are incorporated in SciELO.ar and the portal SciELO.org

Scientific Journals The new project: Questions The national systems apply international quality criteria Can these standards be applied to all disciplines? Given a particular ranking of journals, how is the researchers’ production distributed? Evaluation Committees, ….follow these standards?

Scientific Journals Recopilation of 900 journals and 1800 Researchers annual compulsory report CIC2009 SIGEVA  There is an enourmous quantity of journals awaiting original articles, many with great visibility  Great dispersion in journal selection, specially in the Social sciences.  In the exact sciences, the great majority of articles are concentrated in foreign journals, medium impact.  SciELO.org, has contributed with added visibility and concentrates an increasing number of publications.  Nevertheless, a high percentage of journals included in SciELO.org and REDALYC receive few contributions from Argentine researchers.

Scientific Journals Criteria for ranking scientific journals International standards( UE, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and Chile) For all sciences. GroupExcellence and ImpactEditorial QualityVisibility A International, global multidisciplinary Databases B Other International and regional Databases C National or regional Indexes+++++ D National/regional Catalogs, directories ++++ E Not included in any index+ ?-

Scientific Journals Journals quest for excellence: Contests and Rankings

Scientific Journals RevistaEditorialBaseGrupo Historical Materialism BRILL ISI A DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICERoutledgeSCOPUS A AGROCIENCIA (1996)Colegio de Posgraduados- MEXICOISI A REVISTA DE GEOGRAFIA NORTE GRANDEPontificia Univ. Católica de ChileSCOPUS A Critical Discourse StudiesTAYLOR & FRANCIS ASSCOPUS A PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS ISIA RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGYSPRINGERISIA IZVESTIYA: MATHEMATICSIOP/TURPION SCOPUSA PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGYSpringer ISIA APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Springer ISIA RUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWSIOPISIA SOTSIOLOGISCHESKIE ISSLEDMEZHDUNARODNAYA KNIGA ISIA PARAZITOLOGIIARUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCESSCOPUSA SYSTEMATIC BOTANYAMERICAN SOC. PLANT TAXONOMISTS ISIA BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGYSOC BRASILEIRA MICROBIOLOGIA ISIA AMEGHINIANAAsociación Palentológica ArgentinaISIA PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY ELSEVIERSCOPUSA QUATERNARY INTERNATIONALELSEVIERISI-SCOPUSA AUSTRALIAN METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC AUSTRALIAN BUREAU METEOROLOGYISIA LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC RESEARCH UNIV CATOLICA DE VALPARAISOISI-SCOPUSA

Scientific Journals IberoLatinamerican Journals Databases and Countries (889 Journals) ( Journals) ( journals )

Scientific Journals Journal ranking is a dinamic and evolving process. A gradient- Electronic Open Access journals can circulate among all libraries, even if they do not benefit from a prestigious brand. Scholars around the world will be more aware of Latin American journals and their content. Competition for excellence will motivate top scholars in Latin America in fields relevant to the region. Evaluation processes must accompany these regional and national projects. The strategies coming out in Latin America with SciELO.org and also with Redalyc have preserved the local identities, while incorporating global world visions. Conclusion

Scientific Journals MUCHAS GRACIAS! большое спасибо ! Dr.Flavio Quintana- Cuvervielle (fragment)