Ibero American communication magazines through the Latindex, Dialnet, DOAJ, Scopus, AHCI, SSCI, REDIB, MIAR, ESCI and Google Scholar Metrics databases

Abstract

This article offers an analysis of the Ibero-American Communication journals, their characteristics and presence in Latindex, Dialnet, DOAJ, Scopus, AHCI, SSCI, REDIB, MIAR, ESCI and Google Scholar Metrics - GSM. The journals that belong to these databases are analyzed, comparing their coverage, characteristics, representativeness by countries, periodicity of the headlines, age and production measured in articles. The goal of this work is to identify the scientific communication journals of the Ibero-American area to subsequently study their presence in the main journal databases. Substantial elements such as nationality, nature of the publishing institutions, periodicity, production and seniority are analyzed. It is found that most of the magazines come from educational institutions and their periodicity is by semester. Latindex is the one with the highest number of publications followed by GSM. The journals SSCI and Scopus are those that are mostly present in the journal databases.