Se analiza la presencia de revistas de comunicación editadas en Latinoamérica en bases de datos científicas regionales e internacionales. Se identifica su participación por país e idioma de publicación, así como su disponibilidad al público ya sea abierta o de paga. El principal hallazgo es que-pese al incremento de la profesionalización e investigación en esta área-la presencia de estas revistas en dichas bases es limitada. palabras claVe: revistas científicas de comunicación, WoS, Scopus, Acceso Abierto, comunicación científica. We analyze the existence of communication journals published in Latin America in regional and international scientific databases. We identified the country and language in which this journals are published, as well as its availability whether open access or paid. The main finding is that-despite the increase of professionalization and research in subscriptions this field-the communication journals has a limited existence in these databases.
Since the 1980s, Mexico has had the National System of Researchers (SNI), a program that recognizes the prestige and quality of the scientific production of the academics that comprise it. Through this, an economic stimulus is granted according to the level obtained, which can be: candidate, level I, II, III, and emeritus. The main of this work is to analyze how the 125 researchers of level III of the area of Sociology have incorporated the use of science 2.0 tools for the visibility and dissemination of their scientific production, from the creation and updating of academic profiles in Google Scholar and on two academic social networks: ResearchGate, and Academia.edu. For this, regardless of the particular indicators of each of these platforms, we review: level of update of the profile; type of documents deposited; number of downloads, cites and visits to their profile.
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