Relación entre descargas y citas de revistas científicas en el ámbito de la documentaciónel caso de las universidades públicas de Castilla y León

  1. Rodríguez-Bravo, Blanca
  2. Fernández-Ramos, Andrés
  3. Travieso-Rodríguez, Críspulo
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Revista española de documentación científica

ISSN: 0210-0614,  1988-4621

Year of publication: 2021

Volume: 44

Issue: 4

Type: Article

DOI: 10.3989/REDC.2021.3.1806 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The usefulness of the electronic journals from the big deals subscribed by the public universities of the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León (University of Burgos, University of León, University of Salamanca and University of Valladolid) is investigated based on the analysis of downloads and citations made by their researchers. The analysis is limited to the scientific production present in Scopus in the Library & Information Science (LIS) category during the period 2011-2017 and to download statistics that Emerald, IEEExplore, ScienceDirect, Springer and Wiley have provided to the four public universities. The results show that LIS journals also belong to other categories and, therefore, collect multidisciplinary research. However, Information Science researchers do not collaborate extensively with other disciplines. It is confirmed that the analyzed providers distribute titles that interest the academic communities investigated, although the preferences are not homogeneous. Finally, the correlation between downloads and citations is verified, which shows that both metrics serve to identify the priority journals for academics.

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