Features and visibility of Spanish health sciences journals in selected databases

Authors

  • Marí­a-Francisca Abad-Garcí­a El profesional de la información
  • Aurora González-Teruel
  • Javier Argento
  • Josep-Manuel Rodrí­guez-Gairí­n

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2015.sep.04

Keywords:

Spanish journals, Health Sciences, Databases, International visibility, Open access, Bilingual editions, Languages.

Abstract

The main features of 207 Spanish health sciences journals active in 2014, and their visibility in six biomedical and multidisciplinary databases are described. Of these databases, Scopus and Ibecs provide the best coverage of these journals, and Medline and WoS the worst. The discipline best represented is medicine, followed by psychology, nursing and pharmacy. Among the observed characteristics, there were an absence of journals published exclusively on paper and the presence of journals published in English or bilingual Spanish-English and with open access. The article includes the journal list, which can be a reference tool for researchers selecting target journals for publication, for publishers in the health sciences areas and for information scientists for use in their database management tasks or in advising other professionals.

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Published

2015-09-24

How to Cite

Abad-Garcí­a, M.-F., González-Teruel, A., Argento, J., & Rodrí­guez-Gairí­n, J.-M. (2015). Features and visibility of Spanish health sciences journals in selected databases. Profesional De La información, 24(5), 537–550. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2015.sep.04

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 5 (2015): Información cientí­fica

Section

Research articles

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