Comentarios a la propuesta de nuevo modelo de Publindex

Abstract

En esta nota editorial se recogen los comentarios y propuestas de algunos editores y editoras, así como de expertos en el campo de la sociología de la ciencia, sobre la nueva propuesta de modelo de clasificación de revistas de Publindex. Se invita al lector a compartir las reflexiones, críticas y propuestas que genera la discusión de las políticas públicas sobre los modelos de medición, clasificación y jerarquización del trabajo académico en Colombia.

The uneasiness of Colombian dental journals in the face of the imminent indexing model.

“…However, the form only allowed up to 500 words of comments, which, given the importance of the call, was very limited. 3 For this reason, some authors have decided to publish their comments on the model more widely in other academic spaces. 3,4 Eight years ago, Minciencias promoted a substantial change in the way of evaluating national journals, incorporating the impact factors of the most relevant international databases and/or search engines: Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) associated to Scopus, Journal Citation Report (JCR) to Web of Science (WoS) and H5 to Google Scholar (GS).…”

“…3 For this reason, some authors have decided to publish their comments on the model more widely in other academic spaces. 3,4 Eight years ago, Minciencias promoted a substantial change in the way of evaluating national journals, incorporating the impact factors of the most relevant international databases and/or search engines: Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) associated to Scopus, Journal Citation Report (JCR) to Web of Science (WoS) and H5 to Google Scholar (GS). To that extent, a new public management was introduced in the calculative hierarchization of university work that involves all its actors: professors, researchers, research groups and countries, in order to make scientific work more efficient and qualified.…”

“…To that extent, a new public management was introduced in the calculative hierarchization of university work that involves all its actors: professors, researchers, research groups and countries, in order to make scientific work more efficient and qualified. 3 According to the Scimago Country Rank, the country's production of articles in Scopus journals has increased by nearly 60% between 2016 and 2022 and the number of journals increased from 99 to 136 in the same period, meaning an increase of 37%, placing it as the second Latin American country with the second largest number of journals in the SJR. In addition, there has been an increasing positioning of Colombian journals in the first two quartiles of this indicator.…”

Editorial N.º 91

“…For instance, in 2016, the introduction of the impact factor as a criterion for classifying academic journals in Colombia meant that the quartile assigned to a publication based on the model of the Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) or the Journal Citation Report (JCR) defined its category, regardless of the quality of the editorial process. This required the editorial team of Innovar to rethink its visibility strategies, as the resulting change in our classification 1 prompted certain criticisms-even within our own Faculty-beyond the well-founded critiques of this model, which are summarized, for example, in the works by Arias et al (2020) 2 or Castañeda-Rodríguez et al (2023).…”