Productividad e impacto de los investigadores españoles: umbrales de referencia por áreas científicas

Abstract

Resumen: Se presentan umbrales de referencia de producción e impacto científi co de la investigación española con visibilidad internacional para las áreas defi nidas por la Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva (ANEP) en sus convocatorias. Tomando como población los solicitantes de proyectos del Plan Nacional de I + D 2007 (n = 3.356) se construyen tablas de referencia por percentiles que funcionan a modo de benchmarks, permitiendo efectuar comparaciones entre el comportamiento bibliométrico de un investigador y los registros de referencia en su área científi ca. Igualmente se ofrecen los datos de producción, impacto y visibilidad promedios para las áreas ANEP, y se discute el proceso de internacionalización de dichas áreas en el período 2000-2006, con una especial atención a las Ciencias Sociales. Finalmente, se sugiere el uso de umbrales de referencia como método de evaluación tanto para agencias fi nanciadoras como para instituciones de investigación en sus procesos selectivos.Palabras clave: Indicadores bibliométricos, umbrales de referencia, benchmarking, ANEP, ciencia, investigación científi ca, España. Productivity and impact of Spanish researchers: reference thresholds within scientifi c areas

Information Resources: Differential Characteristics between Ibero-American and Dutch JCR Psychology Journals from 1998 to 2017

“…All this can lead to Ibero-American scientific publications, in the case of Psychology, being indexed in English language databases with a large number of journals published by enormous publishing groups, as is the case for Dutch Psychology journals in the JCR, occupying lower JCR positions, as quartiles Q3 and Q4. In this sense, the Spanish scientific evaluation policy, which prioritizes the publication of articles in journals positioned in Quartile 1 or 2 [4], could be contributing to the invisibility of other sources of information in the Social Sciences areas, such as Ibero-American Psychology publications collected in databases such as SciELO or Latindex, or those indexed in Scopus.…”

“…Although this indicator has now established itself as a benchmark for quality, it is not without controversy [3], since publishing in a journal with a high Impact Factor does not imply that the article in question is of quality, or even that it has received many citations, but that the set of articles published over two years in that journal have been widely cited. However, in the case of the Spanish scientific scene, it is the journals that have a high Impact Factor which enjoy a greater weight when assessing the scientific careers of researchers, with special relevance to whether these works are published in Q1 or Q2 journals, as envisaged by the National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP in Spanish: Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva), the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activities (CNEAI in Spanish: Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora) and the National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality and Accreditation (ANECA in Spanish: Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de Calidad y Acreditación) [4], if we look at the quality indicator of the ANECA, especially in the case of Health Sciences and Social Sciences, as is the case of Psychology.…”

Constructing a synthetic indicator of research activity

“…If the approach to measurement does not come with a degree of 'guarantee' in terms of accuracy, the entire endeavor to understand the true state of play and monitor progress will be in vain. In this regard, advances have been made in the measurement of research results, in terms of both tools and methodologies (Docampo 2011;Chen and Liao 2012;García et al 2012;Jiménez-Contreras et al 2011;Docampo et al 2012) and also in the creation of specialized units within universities or institutional databases (Filippo et al 2011;Torres-Salinas and Jiménez-Contreras 2012). In reality, it is those indicators linked to research that have the greatest weight when compiling international university rankingsindeed, they are often the only ones taken into account.…”

Internacionalización y posicionamiento de las revistas españolas de psicología

“…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).…”