De Filippo, Daniela Spanish Scientific Output in Communication Sciences in WOS. The Scientific Journals in SSCI (2007-12). Comunicar, 2013, vol. 21, n. 41, pp. 25-34. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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Although the field of Communication Sciences has been slower to organize in Spain than in other European countries and the United States, in recent years it has shown a clear tendency to growth. One way to trace this process is by analyzing scientific production, and this paper focuses on this aspect. Using bibliometric methods, we analyze scientific journals and papers indexed in Thomson Reuter’s international database, the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for Communication. While the focus of the study is Spanish scientific output, the results are related to international activities in this field. The three Spanish journals included in SSCI in recent years: «Comunicar», «Comunicación y Sociedad» and «Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico» were studied in detail. The results show that Spain plays an important role in Communcation journal publishing (4th in the world) and as a producer of scientific papers (6th in the world), with a remarkable evolution, in quantitative terms, especially in the last five years. The inclusion of these three Spanish journals in the international database has been an important contribution to the country's visibility in this field, but there is still a need to promote international collaboration to achieve greater impact and openness in the scientific community.
Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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Keywords: | Bibliometric studies, Spanish journals, Web of Science, SSCI, impact, scientific production, visibility |
Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods |
Depositing user: | Alex Ruiz |
Date deposited: | 06 Aug 2013 14:44 |
Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:26 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/19775 |
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