TY - JOUR
T1 - Two decades of acta colombiana de psicología
T2 - A bibliometric analysis
AU - Salas, Gonzalo
AU - Ravelo-Contreras, Ernesto L.
AU - Mejía, Susana
AU - Andrades, Romina
AU - Acuña, Evelyn
AU - Espinoza, Felipe
AU - Núñez, Manuel
AU - Barboza-Palomino, Miguel
AU - Ventura-León, José
AU - Caycho-Rodríguez, Tomás
AU - Pérez-Acosta, Andrés M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Universidad Catolica de Colombia. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - The aim of the present study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the journal Acta Colombiana de Psicología, by virtue of its two decades of uninterrupted work (1998-2017). Initially, historical elements are described in the trajectory of the journal and its chronological evolution is revealed from a database that in its final sample took into account 388 scientific articles. Subsequently, the appraisal of the productivity indices (Lotka) as well as of the topics and methodologies used was carried out. Likewise, an appraisal of the collaboration indicators and the relationships between the authors with respect to the signatory countries was performed. The results highlight the large number of papers from Mexican institutions, a sustained increase in collaboration is visualized-which is evident in the Lawani and Subramanyam indices-, and it is found that the largest amount of papers focused on the areas of clinical and health psychology. The analysis undertaken allows showing what the journal has achieved throughout two decades of scientific work during which it contributed fundamentally to the development of psychology in Latin America.
AB - The aim of the present study was to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the journal Acta Colombiana de Psicología, by virtue of its two decades of uninterrupted work (1998-2017). Initially, historical elements are described in the trajectory of the journal and its chronological evolution is revealed from a database that in its final sample took into account 388 scientific articles. Subsequently, the appraisal of the productivity indices (Lotka) as well as of the topics and methodologies used was carried out. Likewise, an appraisal of the collaboration indicators and the relationships between the authors with respect to the signatory countries was performed. The results highlight the large number of papers from Mexican institutions, a sustained increase in collaboration is visualized-which is evident in the Lawani and Subramanyam indices-, and it is found that the largest amount of papers focused on the areas of clinical and health psychology. The analysis undertaken allows showing what the journal has achieved throughout two decades of scientific work during which it contributed fundamentally to the development of psychology in Latin America.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Indicators
KW - Journal
KW - Psychology
KW - Scientific production
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051717195&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.14718/acp.2018.21.2.2
DO - 10.14718/acp.2018.21.2.2
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85051717195
SN - 0123-9155
VL - 21
SP - 13
EP - 38
JO - Acta Colombiana de Psicologia
JF - Acta Colombiana de Psicologia
IS - 2
ER -