El precio de la internacionalidad: la dualidad en los patrones de publicación de los investigadores españoles en comunicación

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Cómo citar este artículo/ Citation: Fernández-Quijada, D.; Masip, P.; Bergillos, I. (2013). El precio de la internacionalidad: la dualidad en los patrones de publicación de los investigadores españoles en comunicación. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 36(2):e010. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/redc.2013.2.936Resumen: Este artículo caracteriza los patrones de publicación en revistas científicas de los investigadores españoles de comunicación. Se analiza la institución de procedencia, el número de autores, la tipología de las colaboraciones y el número y destino de las referencias para tres muestras de revistas distintas: revistas españolas no indizadas en SSCI, revistas españolas incluidas en SSCI y revistas internacionales SSCI. Los resultados muestran un comportamiento dual de los autores en función del destino nacional o internacional de sus artículos. Así, publicar en una revista internacional es más propio de los autores de universidades jóvenes e implica mayoritariamente autoría múltiple, colaboración con autores foráneos y un gran número de referencias a revistas internacionales. Todos estos parámetros se invierten en el caso de las revistas nacionales. Finalmente, las revistas españolas SSCI se definen más por su nacionalidad que por su pertenencia al índice bibliográfico de referencia internacional.Palabras clave: Bibliometría; producción científica; revistas científicas; estudios de comunicación; internacionalidad. The price of internationality: duality in publication patterns of Spanish communication researchersAbstract: This article characterizes publication patterns of Spanish communication scholars in scientific journals. Different parameters are analyzed: institution of origin, number of authors, typology of collaborations and the number and target of references. In order to achieve its objectives, three samples were studied: non-SSCI Spanish journals, SSCI Spanish journals and SSCI international journals. The results reveal a dual behaviour for these authors depending on the national or international destination of their articles. Publishing in an international journal is usually done by authors from younger universities and implies multiple authorship, collaboration with foreign scholars and a high number of references to international journals. Just the contrary can be said of Spanish journals. SSCI Spanish journals are more defined by their nationality than by their inclusion in this internationally prestigious bibliographic index.Keywords: Bibliometrics; scholarly production; scholarly journals; communication studies; internationality.Copyright: © 2013 CSIC. Este es un artículo de acceso abierto distribuido bajo los términos de la licencia Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (by-nc) Spain 3.0.

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