“…The fact of publishing in prestigious journals, as it is the case of the ones listed in Web of Science (WoS) has become a priority for Spanish researchers, if we take into account that, in the Spanish scientific and university policy, publishing in journals is a requirement needed for receiving the six-year research appraisals ("sexenios"), an endorsement in the evaluation of research groups who present their research project during competitive call for papers, which also represents a recognized merit for one's own teaching career at university . The three main Spanish agencies of evaluation 1 , 2 responding to a general strategy aimed at increasing the international relevance of Spanish research (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 2015; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, 2013a, 2013b; Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 2016a,2016b, 2016c) agree upon granting special importance to the number of publications in the Web of Science (WoS) and to the impact factor that such publications hold (Jiménez-Contreras, Robinson-García & Cabezas-Clavijo, 2011;Moreno-Pulido, López-González, Rubio, Saúl & Sánchez-Elvira-Paniagua, 2013;Quintas-Froufe, 2016;Ruíz-Pérez, Martín-Martín & Delgado-López-Cózar, 2015;Ruíz-Pérez, Delgado-López-Cózar & Jiménez-Contreras, 2010).…”