Bibliometría de la colaboración e impacto de la Revista de Biología Tropical (Web of Science 2003-2012)

Abstract

Bibliometry of collaboration and impact of the Revista de Biología Tropical (Web of Science 2003-2012).The activity analysis of a scientific journal is relevant to know the evolution of its characteristics over time. In this paper, results of a bibliometric study of the Revista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation (Costa Rica) are presented. The goal of this study was to describe the main characteristics of its scientific production, and analyze its level of collaboration and its impact between the years 2003-2012. Data was derived from the Web of Science (Thomson-Reuters), and the relationship among authors and coauthors, institutions and countries, and their links with the citations received were analyzed for that period. Descriptive statistics about production (number of documents per year, institution and country), collaboration (authorship index, collaboration among institutions and countries) and impact (IF, position in JCR and number of citations received) were collected. Results showed that the journal has published 1 473 papers in this period, in similar proportions English and Spanish. Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia are the most common countries of origin, with the Universidad of Costa Rica, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico and the University of Puerto Rico as the most common leader institutions. Collaboration between authors, institutions and countries has shown an increasing trend over the last decade. The co-author index was 3.07 per document, 63 % of publications included 2 or more institutions, and 22 % of the papers were product of international collaboration. The most common collaboration link was between Costa Rica and the United States of America. The impact factor has been oscillating during this last decade, reaching a maximum in 2012 (IF JCR = 0.553). Besides, 10 % of the most cited papers concentrated half of the citations received by the journal, and have a very high number of citations, compared with the journal mean. The main countries that cite the journal were USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Costa Rica. Data showed an increasing collaboration between authors, institutions and countries, and a direct relationship between the increase of this collaboration and the received impact. Rev. Biol. Trop. 64 (1): 147-156. Epub 2016 March 01.

Bibliometry of the Revista de Biología Tropical / International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation: document types, languages, countries, institutions, citations and article lifespan

“…Previous studies with other journals have reported that authors establish de facto networks that collaborate and repeatedly cite each other (Ronda & Guerras, 2010;Fatt, Abu Ujum & Ratnavelu, 2010;Schulz & Nicolai, 2015), and that neighboring countries share interests and collaborate in certain research topics (Yarime, Takeda & Kajikawa, 2010). Our results suggest that this shared interest research takes place in the cases of Mexico, Venezuela and Costa Rica, which are mostly covered by tropical ecosystems, share a common language (Spanish) and often collaborate in research (De Filippo, González, & Sanz-Casado, 2016). The same applies to the leading institutions, which are among the largest Spanish language universities in the neotropical region, in which the journal focuses.…”

“…The third study covered the period 2003-2012 of the Revista and, like the second study, covered collaboration, countries, institutions and impact, but included articles about all topics published during that decade (De Filippo et al, 2016). This study also found that about one half of the papers were in English, but also reported a lower proportion of articles resulting from international collaboration (22 %).…”

“…This focused on citation in journals covered by the Science Citation Index, reporting that in those journals, Revista articles were cited a mean of one time in the two years following publication, and that the countries that most cite the Revista are USA, Brazil and Mexico. It also reported that 10 % of the papers concentrated half of the citations in those journals, mostly published outside the tropics (De Filippo et al, 2016).…”

“…With a 70 % rejection rate and an output of 3 000 pages per volume, the Revista is considered one of the leading journals in Latin America (MongeNájera & Díaz, 1988;Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2012;De Filippo González & Sanz-Casado, 2016). The first bibliometric study of the journal was published to celebrate its 35 th anniversary and covered main publication topics, rejection rate, origin and language of manuscripts, and number of authors per article (Monge-Nájera & Díaz, 1988).…”

Los primeros 10 años de Cuadernos de Investigación UNED: bibliometría de temas, autores e instituciones

“…Otro estudio, cuatro años después, obtuvo básicamente los mismos resultados, agregando que los países que más publicaban en Biología Tropical eran Costa Rica, México y los EEUU (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2016). En el periodo previo (2003-2012), México, Costa Rica y Venezuela eran las principales fuentes de publicaciones, con aumento anual de los artículos producto de colaboración inter-institucional y una media de tres autores por artículo (Filippo, Córdoba-González, & Sanz-Casado, 2016).…”