Международная научно-практическая конференция

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Международная научно-практическая конференция

«Научное издание международного уровня: проблемы и решения при подготовке и включении в индексы цитирования и реферативные базы данных»

15-17 мая 2012 г., ВИНИТИ РАН, Москва, Россия

The Importance of National and Regional Journal SystemsIdentity and impact

Lic. Cecilia Mabragaña

Gerencia de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico- CONICET

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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.

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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

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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


Visible part of scientific production

Lost science

Our Journals??????

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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)

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Regional Systems (1)

•It is a regional cooperative network (22 countries)

•Includes scientific, technical, professional and cultural journals edited in Ibero-America (19.000 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


Regional Systems (1 cont.)

•PRODUCTS:

•Directory: 20.433 journals. Description and principal characteristics

•Catalog: 5.707 journals. Selection of journals according to the established standards (32)

•Index: 4.361 journals. Selection of electronic journals according to the established standards (36)


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%


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.


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

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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

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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”


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

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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.

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CONICET TODAYIt 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..

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CONICET Institutional Network

The new institutional structure leads to a greater Federal stance of Centers and

Institutes


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 CommitteeJournals 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


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?


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.


Criteria for ranking scientific journalsInternational standards( UE, Spain , Brazil, Mexico and Chile) For all sciences.

Group Excellence and Impact Editorial Quality Visibility

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 + ? -


Journals quest for excellence: Contests and Rankings


Revista Editorial Base Grupo

Historical Materialism BRILL ISI A

DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE Routledge SCOPUS A

AGROCIENCIA (1996) Colegio de Posgraduados- MEXICO ISI A

REVISTA DE GEOGRAFIA NORTE GRANDE Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile SCOPUS A

Critical Discourse Studies TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS SCOPUS A

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS ISI ARUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY SPRINGER ISI AIZVESTIYA: MATHEMATICS IOP/TURPION SCOPUS A

PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Springer ISI AAPPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Springer ISI ARUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWS IOP ISI A

SOTSIOLOGISCHESKIE ISSLED MEZHDUNARODNAYA KNIGA ISI APARAZITOLOGIIA RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SCOPUS A

SYSTEMATIC BOTANY AMERICAN SOC. PLANT TAXONOMISTS ISI A

BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY SOC BRASILEIRA MICROBIOLOGIA ISI A

AMEGHINIANA Asociación Palentológica Argentina ISI APALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY ELSEVIER SCOPUS A

QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL ELSEVIER ISI-SCOPUS A

AUSTRALIAN METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC AUSTRALIAN BUREAU METEOROLOGY ISI A

LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC RESEARCH UNIV CATOLICA DE VALPARAISO ISI-SCOPUS A


IberoLatinamerican JournalsDatabases and Countries

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Brasil Colombia Chile Argentina México Venezuela España Cuba Portugal Perú Bolivia Costa Rica Uruguay Paraguay Ecuador PuertoRico

SciELO.org Web of Science SCOPUS

(889 Journals) (11.000 Journals) (18.000 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

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MUCHAS GRACIAS!большое спасибо !

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Dr.Flavio Quintana- Cuvervielle (fragment)

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