¿Se puede evaluar la calidad de las revistas científicas? Principales limitaciones

Abstract

The number of scientific journals worldwide continues to grow. However, not all journals have the same quality, so you need to have indicators to facilitate the journals subscriptions selection in order to formalize, manuscript submission and evaluation of scientific activity.Bibliometric indicators allow to measure the production and consumption of information within the scientific community. From all bibliometric indicators, the most widely used for this purpose is the impact factor (IF), but also the most controversial has raised. At present there are several sources to calculate the IF from a journal. These are tools that analyze a set of journals from them, and obtained by calculating the IF. © Servicio de Publicaciones - Universidad de Murcia.