Internationalization and Coauthorship in Major Communication Journals in Spain

Cortiñas-Rovira, Sergi and Escribà-Sales, Eudald Internationalization and Coauthorship in Major Communication Journals in Spain. Comunicar, 2013, vol. 21, n. 41, pp. 35-44. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This work has conducted an analysis of Spanish Communication journals in terms of their level of internationalization and the collaborative models used by their authors, by assessing 1,182 articles published between 2007 and 2011 in the seven toprated Communication journals according to a set of six quality indicators. The ultimate goal has been to perform a data processing in order to detect the degree of inclination of international authors to publish their works in Spanish journals in the years covered by this study. Secondly, the study draws a profile of coauthorship patterns focused on geographical and institutional alliances. The results show there is no clear and convincing signs of evolution towards a desired level of internationality. Concerning coauthorship, although the results indicate a willingness on the part of authors to chart a path of wider geographical and institutional collaboration, unique authorship continues to be the preferred form of publication. Finally, the work shows that investigative alliances are confined to Spain and when they go international collaborations are almost exclusively with Latin American authors.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Communication, research, journals, authorship, internationalization, scientific communication
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
Depositing user: Alex Ruiz
Date deposited: 06 Aug 2013 14:45
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:26
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/19776

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