https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/issue/feedProfesional de la información / Information Professional2023-12-29T06:41:35+00:00Tomàs Baigetbaiget@gmail.comOpen Journal Systems<p><strong><em>Profesional de la información</em></strong> (ISSN 1699-2407) is a scholarly journal on communication, information, indicators, libraries and information technologies.</p> <div>Impact factor JCR: JIF 2022 = 4.2 (Q1)</div> <div>Scopus/<a href="https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=6200180164&tip=sid&clean=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SCImago Journal Rank</a>: SJR 2022 = 0.872 (Q1)</div> <div> </div> <div><strong><em>Profesional de la información</em></strong> es la revista científica en español más citada según <em>Google Scholar</em>:<br /><em><a title="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=es" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=es">https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=es</a></em></div>https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87483Loet Leydesdorff, interdisciplinarity, and diversity2023-09-28T10:34:59+00:00Ronald Rousseauronald.rousseau@kuleuven.be<p class="p1">Diversity, as used in interdisciplinarity studies, has three components: variety, evenness, and dissimilarity. In 2019, Leydesdorff, Wagner, and Bornmann proposed an indicator, denoted DIV*, that independently operationalized these three components and then combined them. Gini evenness is one factor in this formula. An important point is that Leydesdorff and his colleagues rejected so-called dual concepts, i.e. concepts that mix or are influenced by at least two of the three basic components of diversity. A few years ago Chao and Ricotta took a new look at "evenness" and showed that the Gini evenness measure, as well as the Lorenz curve, are dual concepts as they are influenced by variety. For this reason, I propose to replace the Gini evenness measure in DIV* with an evenness measure, actually an evenness profile, that is not influenced by variety.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la informaciónhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87523Toward the consolidation of a multi-metric-based journal ranking and categorization system for computer science subject areas2023-11-21T17:24:01+00:00Abdul Hameedabdulhameedattari@gmail.comMuhammad Omarm.omar.nazeer@gmail.comMuhammad Bilalm_bilalcsiub@yahoo.comHan Woo Parkhanpark@ynu.ac.krThe evaluation of scientific journals poses challenges owing to the existence of various impact measures. This is because journal ranking is a multidimensional construct that may not be assessed effectively using a single metric such as an impact factor. A few studies have proposed an ensemble of metrics to prevent the bias induced by an individual metric. In this study, a multi-metric journal ranking method based on the standardized average index (SA index) was adopted to develop an extended standardized average index (ESA index). The ESA index utilizes six metrics: the CiteScore, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), Hirsh index (H-index), Eigenfactor Score, and Journal Impact Factor from three well-known databases (Scopus, SCImago Journal & Country Rank, and Web of Science). Experiments were conducted in two computer science subject areas: (1) artificial intelligence and (2) computer vision and pattern recognition. Comparing the results of the multi-metric-based journal ranking system with the SA index, it was demonstrated that the multi-metric ESA index exhibited high correlation with all other indicators and significantly outperformed the SA index. To further evaluate the performance of the model and determine the aggregate impact of bibliometric indices with the ESA index, we employed unsupervised machine learning techniques such as clustering coupled with principal component analysis (PCA) and t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE). These techniques were utilized to measure the clustering impact of various bibliometric indicators on both the complete set of bibliometric features and the reduced set of features. Furthermore, the results of the ESA index were compared with those of other ranking systems, including the internationally recognized Scopus, SJR, and HEC Journal Recognition System (HJRS) used in Pakistan. These comparisons demonstrated that the multi-metric-based ESA index can serve as a valuable reference for publishers, journal editors, researchers, policymakers, librarians, and practitioners in journal selection, decision making, and professional assessment. 2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la información / Information Professionalhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87536Are Brazilian innovation systems innovative? Regional and sectorial decompositions of triple-helix synergies2023-12-12T12:35:17+00:00Mariza Almeidamariza.almeida@unirio.brIgone Porto-Gómez igone.porto@ehu.eusLoet Leydesdorffmariza.almeida@unirio.br<p class="p1">A knowledge-based economy adds innovation as another dynamic to a political economy. Whereas a political economy is institutionalized -for example, in a nation state- the knowledge base is volatile although it leaves footprints behind by transforming the institutional layers. This transformation into new options can be measured as redundancy using the Triple-Helix indicator. The balance between historical entropy generation and the knowledge-based generation of options can be measured in terms of positive and negative contributions to the prevailing uncertainty. At what scale and in which sectors is synergy among geographical, technological, and organizational distributions of firms evident? Using mutual information in the three dimensions as an indicator, we analyse a dataset of more than 16 million firms in Brazil and compute synergy within and across states and sectors in this country in terms of bits of information. The results suggest that no synergy is generated at the national level. The political economy of the country has not (yet) been transformed into a national innovation system. At state level,<span class="s1"> synergies vary according to geographical levels and sectors due to the specifics of the </span>states. Above-average values were found for some states in the South and Southeast Regions. Also, the political capital, Brasilia, has resulted to have no impact in the innovation system of Brazil.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la información / Information Professionalhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87482Reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) of papers published by Loet Leydesdorff: A giant in the field of scientometrics passed away2023-09-28T08:29:59+00:00Lutz Bornmannbornmann@gv.mpg.deRobin Haunschildr.haunschild@fkf.mpg.de<p class="p1">Loet Leydesdorff (mentioned as Loet in the following) passed away in March 2023. Our paper is dedicated to the important contributions of this exceptional researcher (in scientometrics). We investigated which studies, theories, methods, and ideas have influenced Loet´s scientific work. The method reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) can be used to answer this and related questions. Many RPYS studies have been published regarding the historical roots of research fields, journals, and scientists. The program <em>CRExplorer</em> was specifically developed for RPYS. In this study, we used <em>CRExplorer</em> to investigate the historical roots and influential publications of Loet´s oeuvre. The results demonstrate the wide range of topics in Loet´s research and their fundamental meaning for the scientometric field.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la informaciónhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87524Science overlay maps: A tribute to Loet Leydesdorff2023-11-21T17:55:24+00:00Benjamín Vargas-Quesadabenjamin@ugr.esWenceslao Arroyo-Machadowences@ugr.esTeresa Muñoz-Écijateresamunyozecija@gmail.comZaida Chinchilla-Rodríguezzaida.chinchilla@csic.esThis is a homage to Loet Leydesdorff, teacher and scientific reference. Through the combination of overlay maps, a visualization technique proposed by himself and Ismael Ràfols, in combination with the CAMEOs (Characterizations Automatically Made and Edited Online) proposed by Howard White, we project his scientific trajectory in five different scenarios, which turn out to be complementary. For each of the scenarios or CAMEOs, we show how he acts and interacts from the point of view of scientific research, providing the reader with online access to an interactive VOSviewer tool, so that he can check the information presented here, and even go deeper into the analysis, in fact, we encourage him to do so. To sum up, we can say that Loet was quite a character, a lone wolf who enjoyed working with the best of the best of his main research topics: scientific communication, innovation systems, bibliometrics, and science mapping; becoming in turn the referent of these lines of research. 2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la información / Information Professionalhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87501A bibliometric perspective on the academic contributions of Loet Leydesdorff2023-10-30T18:12:29+00:00Wenjing Xiongwenjing_xiong@zju.edu.cnPing Zhoupingzhou@zju.edu.cnThe purpose of this paper is to commemorate the late scholar Loet Leydesdorff for his great academic contribution on the basis of data from Web of Science. In the span of more than 40 years, he had 526 publications, with the years 2004-2021 being the most productive (394 publications). His international collaborations spread widely across 36 countries, with Germany, the USA, the UK, China, Russia, and South Korea being the most significant. His most frequent collaboration partners included Lutz Bornmann (Germany), Staša Milojević (USA), Caroline Wagner (USA), Henry Etzkowitz (USA), Jonathan Adams (UK), Ronald Rousseau (Belgium), and Ping Zhou (China). With a broad and deep knowledge background, Leydesdorff’s research extended across multiple disciplines and fields, but he was most active in library and information science and computer science. He made profound contributions to the study of bibliometrics, innovation systems (the Triple Helix model), and communications. Leydesdorff had a remarkable and extensive citation impact, with citations in 221 WoS subject categories from 120 countries. His publications in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2006, and 2012 are highly cited, and those on university-industry-government relations (the Triple Helix model) are the most cited. 2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la informaciónhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87486Creating a collection of publications categorized by their research guarantors into the Scopus ASJC scheme2023-10-03T17:17:43+00:00Jesús M. Álvarez-Llorentellorente@unex.esVicente P. Guerrero-Boteguerrero@unex.esFélix De-Moya-Anegónfelix.moya@scimago.es<p class="p1">Given the need in Scientometrics to get beyond merely classifying scientific production based on the classification of the journals in which it is published, there have been many attempts to classify papers directly. Little has been done, however, to check how reliable the results are. In this work, a collection of publications was generated which we call an Author’s Assignation Collection (AAC) comprising 13449 papers referenced in the <em>Scopus</em> database and classified by their research guarantor with fractional weighting in terms of <em>Scopus</em>’s own <em>ASJC</em> scheme. The methodological approach taken is described, and the collection’s representativeness is evaluated and compared with the journal-based classification. There stand out both the great number of papers assigned by their research guarantors to more than one category (at times with even the same weight) and how frequently authors assigned categories which were not assigned to the journals in which their paper was published.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la informaciónhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87543Loet Leydesdorff: bibliometric analysis and mapping of his scientific production2023-12-22T06:45:39+00:00Audilio Gonzales-Aguilaraudilio.gonzales@gmail.comMaría-Jesús Colmenero-Ruiz mcolmene@ucm.esFrancisco-Carlos Paletta fcpaletta@usp.brLise Verlaetlise.verlaet@univ-montp3.fr<p class="p1">This study conducts a comprehensive bibliometric analysis and mapping of the scientific production of Loet Leydesdorff. Leveraging bibliometric techniques, the research aims to explore the breadth and impact of Leydesdorff’s scholarly contributions. The analysis includes an examination of his publication patterns, citation impact, and collaborations over time. Additionally, mapping techniques will be employed to visually represent the networks and interdisciplinarity associated with Leydesdorff’s work. The study provides insights into the evolution of his research interests, the influence of his contributions within the scientific community, and the interdisciplinary connections inherent in his body of work.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la información / Information Professionalhttps://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87540New map of the research published in Profesional de la Información (2006-2023)2023-12-15T11:28:13+00:00Pablo Guerrero-Castillopablogc@unex.esMaría-Victoria Nuño-Moral mvnunmor@unex.esVicente P. Guerrero-Boteguerrero@unex.esFélix De-Moya-Anegón felix.moya@scimago.es<p class="p1">In 2006, <em>Profesional de la Información</em> (<em>EPI</em>) began to be indexed by international scientific literature databases and is currently one of the leading Spanish journals in Library & Information Science and in Communication. Research fields can be characterized and analysed based on the patterns of keywords used in the publications. One of the most used techniques for this is co-word analysis. This technique is used in the present study to examine the structure of the research published in <em>EPI</em>. The journal’s two-fold spirit in Library & Information Science and in Communication is revealed, comprising six main thematic areas. Since no poor behaviour is seen in any of these areas, it can be concluded that, in becoming part of <em>WoS</em> and <em>Scopus</em>, <em>EPI</em> has entered a virtuous cycle that has led it to successfully expand its thematic scope, and to attain levels of impact and excellence superior to those of its origins.</p>2023-12-29T00:00:00+00:00Derechos de autor 2023 Profesional de la información / Information Professional