Social visibility by Ibero-American scholarly journals in Arts and Humanities from ESCI-WoS (Emerging Source Citation Index): an altmetric approach

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https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v13.n3.2020.32734

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Emerging Sources Citation Index, Web of Science, Scholarly journal, Visibility of social media, Altmetrics

Abstract

Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) as new Web of Science product database, grows remarkably every year. It currently has more than 8,000 journals across different academic disciplines. This work aims to analyze visibility from Iberoamerican journals in Art and Humanities (A&H) areas based on characterization of research sub-categories, publishers, publication languages and impact activity in social media. Descriptive analysis methods were carried out on data from Altmetric.com platform to social mediatic impact assessment of 442 scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. It is concluded that more than half of A&H sub-categories (17 of 26) include journals of Ibero-American origin. 2 of them standing out, with significant global coverage of over 55%: Literature, Romance (71.79%) and Classics (56.25%) and 3 of the over 40%: Architecture (43.75%); History (46.72%) and Medieval & Renaissance Studies (45.94%). The presence of English as a possible publication language in more than half of the analyzed journals indicates the degree of visibility of the same. A large number of the journals analyzed are found on social networks, with Facebook and Twitter being the most active, where interactions and comments by countries outside Ibero-America related to the content of the journals studied contribute to affirm the acceptable visibility of A&H Ibero-Americana journals.

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Juan José Prieto-Gutiérrez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España

Licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Doctor en Ciencias de la Documentación, por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Miembro del Grupo de Investigación “Comunicación y sociedad digital” de UNIR. Desde el año 2000 es bibliotecario de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Experto en seguridad y protección de documentación sensible y clasificada en las organizaciones, en instituciones culturales y redes sociales, así como en soportes de lectura y consulta. Es miembro de la Red Forum UNESCO y de la Junta directiva de SEDIC desde el año 2013.

Joel Alhuay-Quispe, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Postgrado, Dirección de Evaluación e Impacto, Lima, Perú

Library and Information Science professional by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and Master in Information and Knowledge Management (UNMSM). Publish under following topic research: bibliometrics, repositories, web visibility and cyberactivism.

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Published

2020-09-13

How to Cite

Prieto-Gutiérrez, J. J., & Alhuay-Quispe, J. (2020). Social visibility by Ibero-American scholarly journals in Arts and Humanities from ESCI-WoS (Emerging Source Citation Index): an altmetric approach. Revista Ibero-Americana De Ciência Da Informação, 13(3), 936–962. https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v13.n3.2020.32734