Spanish education journals and their citation sources: exploring the CiteScore 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rgid.84456
Keywords: bibliometric analysis, citation analysis, CiteScore, Education journals, Scopus

Abstract

There are several research that analyze the evolution of Spanish education journals in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. However, there are no studies that analyze the origin of their citations. For this reason, the objective was to explore citation origin of Spanish education journals through the analysis of the CiteScore 2021. For this, a descriptive and retrospective study was carried out, applying a procedure that included the analysis of these CiteScore of the Spanish journals of education. The population are journals indexed in Scopus (1369) under the subcategory of education (Social Science -education-), and the sample are the Spanish journals (70). Matrices were designed to analyze the quantitative data using the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, the Pakej v. 5.15, the VOSviewer v. 1.6.18 and, the power-user plugin for citation analysis and data rendering. The results highlight the excellent job done by the editors of the Spanish education journals. The analysis of the main citation sources of Spanish education journals reveals two aspects to assess: the origin of publications whose indexation in Scopus is far from «education» and the influence of conference proceedings.

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Ignacio Aguaded, Universidad de Huelva

Catedrático de Universidad de Educación y Comunicación en la Universidad de Huelva. Editor Jefe de 'Comunicar', revista científica JCR-Scopus. Preside el Grupo Comunicar, colectivo veterano en España en «Media Literacy». Director del Grupo de Investigación «Agora» dentro del Plan Andaluz de Investigación (HUM-648), Director del Máster Internacional de Comunicación y Educación (UNIA/UHU) y coordinador UHU del Programa Interuniversitario de Doctorado en Comunicación (US, UMA, UCA, UHU).

Rafael Repiso, Universidad de Málaga

Rafael Repiso, full professor at the University of Malaga and the UNIR (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja). My teaching is mainly about Research Methodologies and Documentation and I teach it in the degrees of Communication, Masters and Doctorate.

Founding member of the Spin Off EC3metrics of the University of Granada.

Training. Diploma in Library Science, Degree in Documentation, Master in Scientific Evaluation, Doctor in Documentation (2013) and Doctor in Communication (2019).

Member of the EC3 research group (University of Granada), and of the PROCOMM (UNIR) and Comunicar groups. Member since the end of 2017 of Think Tank Thinkepi.

Scientific Journals. Member of several scientific journals such as Comunicar (associate editor), Icon 14 (associate editor), Razón y Palabra (member of the editorial committee), Archivo Iberoamericano (member of the editorial committee) and Revista Avances (member of the editorial committee).

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Published
2023-12-21
How to Cite
Estrada Molina O., Aguaded I. y Repiso R. (2023). Spanish education journals and their citation sources: exploring the CiteScore 2021. Revista General de Información y Documentación, 33(2), 387-409. https://doi.org/10.5209/rgid.84456
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Vol. 33 No. 2 (2023)
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