About the Journal

Scope

Profesional de la información publishes ORIGINAL scientific and technical articles bilingually, in Spanish or English, on INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION, and specifically on bibliometrics, informetrics, indicators, information management, libraries, documentation centers, scholarly publication, databases, intelligence, marketing, indexing, social media networks, etc.

Peer review process

Submitted papers are reviewed according to the traditional double-blind peer review system, that is, maintaining mutual anonymity between the reviewer and the author(s) of the work. The journal entrusts the review to subject experts, members of the journal´s Scientific Council, and/or reviewers outside the editorial team. Considering the referee reports, the journal editor makes the final decision on whether to publish the text.

To ensure that the papers are up to date, the management and reviewers of the journal make a special effort to review articles very quickly, achieving an average acceptance/rejection time of only a few weeks.

Frecuency

Profesional de la información is published bimonthly (6 issues/year), but with continuous publication flow, i.e., the articles are available individually just when they are finished.

Copyright

Profesional de la información is an open access journal, meaning that all content is freely available and at no cost to users or their institutions.
Authors retain all copyright to their articles.
Articles are published under a Creative Commons BY license.
Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without seeking prior permission from the publisher or author.

 

"Profesional de la información" in quality rankings

Web of Science (WoS), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Journal Citation Records (JCR)

    JIF 2022 = 4.2 (Q1)
    JCI 2022 = 1.2 (Q1)

Scopus

    SJR 2023 = 0.967 (Q1)
    CiteScore 2022 = 6.1 (Q1)
    Snip 2022 = 1.5 (Q1)

Dialnet

    IDR 2022 = 2.81 (Q1)

Google Scholar Metrics

    Worldwide n. 1 in Spanish

Note:
This journal was published by Ediciones Profesionales de la Información from 1992 to 2023 both years inclusive.