Las revistas iberoamericanas de bibliotecología y ciencias de la información en el emerging sources citation index (ESCI): tendencias disciplinarias

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze the disciplinary trends of Ibero-American journals of Library and Information Science present in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For the search of information, the Web of Science platform was used, where twelve journals were identified and a descriptive study was carried out with a qualitative approach and applying bibliographic and statistical methods. Consequently, the Statgraphic Centurion XVIII and VOSviewer programs were used to carry out a statistical analysis. The results show that Spain is the country with the highest number of Ibero-American journals published, and that educational institutions are the most prevalent in terms of institutional origin. On the other hand, regarding the position in quartiles of the journals of Library and Information Science in Ibero-America during the year 2020, four journals have Q4 in that year, one Cuban, one Costa Rican and two Spanish, while only one Spanish journal obtains Q1. Consequently, the journal Perspectivas em ciencia da informacao, is the journal with the most papers per year in the period 2015-2020.