SEARCH AND EVALUATE

SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
STUDY OF CASE

PhD: HUAMAN DE LA CRUZ, Alex Ruben

Email contact: alebut2@hotmail.com
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Objective:

1. Prepare a list of Scientific Journals of our

discipline
2. Evaluate the quality of journals.
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Importance:

Identify a series of features and indicators

that will help you differentiate between a
Scientific Journal and one that is not.

For Environmental Journals

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To solve this case
we will use
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 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Google scholar is a freely accessible

web search engine that indexes the
full text or metadata of scholarly
literature across an array of
publishing formats and disciplines.
Scholar.google.pe (br, es, co, etc)
Scholar.google.com
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Google scholar is a freely accessible

web search engine that indexes the
full text or metadata of scholarly
literature across an array of
publishing formats and disciplines.
Scholar.google.pe (br, es, co, etc)
Scholar.google.com
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Besides to allowing us to search the

scientific web, Academic Google
produces a ranking of scientific
journals that us can see by following
the steps below mentioned.
1. Search academic Google in
Google
2. Click on Google Scholar
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Offers us a ranking of

4 the 100 best scientific

journals in 9 different
languages
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The indicator used to

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based on the H index at
five years.

The indicator is based

on the number of
citations a journal
receives.
Cuando mayor es la
calidad y contenido de
una revista mas citas
recibirá y mayor será su
índice H.
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The indicator used to

4 elaborate this ranking is

based on the H index at
five years.

The indicator is based

on the number of
citations a journal
receives.
Cuando mayor es la
calidad y contenido de
una revista mas citas
recibirá y mayor será su
índice H.
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 RULES FOR SEARCHING SCIENTIFIC
DOCUMENTATION ON A THEME

1.
. Define the problem well
2. Choose search terms (also in English)
3. Select search tools
4. Execute the search
5. Evaluate the results and redirect the search
6. Choose and gather references and documents
7. To keep up to date
1. Define the problem well.
 Realizar consulta orientativo en la web
 Consultar manuals de la asignatura
 Obras de referencia (diccionarios, enciclopedias)
 Buscar la orientacion del professor
 Consultar bibliografia basica en la biblioteca
 Grado de profundidad y especializacion de la
busqueda
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breve exposicion oral o para un trabajo de fin grado
 Tipo de informacion
Datos
Legislacion y normas
Resultados de investigacion especializada
Conocimiento mas estandard
2. Choose search terms.
 Seleccionar los terminos de busqueda que definen el
tema utilizando los terminos adecuados – Keywords.

3 Select search tools

 Tipo de informacion
 Grado de profundidad que necesitamos.
4 Execute the search
 Write the keywords and search information.
5 Evaluate the results and redirect the search
 No te conformes con lo primero que encuentres
 Examina los resultados
 Prueba con diferentes terminos, estrategias y
herramientas, hasta conseguir los mejores resultados
 Selecciona y reune las bibliografias que mas te
interesen
6 Choose and gather references and documents
 Selecciona y reune las referencias y documentos que
mas te interesan.
 Gestores de referencia bibliografica (Mendeley),
catalogos de la biblioteca
7 To keep up to date
 Si el tema va seguir interesandote, utiliza los servicios
de alerta que te ofrecen las herramientas utilizadas.
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portals in the world, whose main
mission is to give greater visibility to the
Hispanic Scientific literature.
Focused fundamentally on the fields of
Human, Legal and Social Sciences.
It is constituted as a fundamental tool
for the search quality information.
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expression aparezacan juntos y en ese orden .
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El asterisco sustituye cualquier cadena de caracteres, por
ejemplo:
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scholar Google
Is a union catalog that itemizes the
collection of 72000 libraries in 70
countries and territories that participate in
the Online Computer Library Center
(OCLC).
Type of site: Network of library content
and services
Available: 13 languages
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Affiliations and specialist in the field
What are predatory journals and Why should We
worry?

Predators
seeking
Scientific prey
 Predatory Journal?

Predatory Journal is a phrase (now in wider

usage) coined by Jeffrey Beall, scholarly
communications librarían at the University of
Colorado at Denver, that refers to journals
(and journal publishers) whose main purpose
seem to be to exploit (¨prey on¨) scholar
and academics and their need to publish
the results of their research.
 What is a predatory journal?

 A predatory journal is a publication that

actively asks researchers for
manuscripts.
 They have no peer review system and no
true editorial board and are often found
to publish mediocre or even worthless
papers.
 They also asks for huge publications
charges.
How predatory publishers operate

 Experts at manipulative spamming

 Target young and emerging researchers
 They mimic legitimate publishers in many
ways
How predatory publishers operate
They lie; they are counterfeit publishers
They are often one-man operations
Author-oriented vs. reader oriented
Customers include unlucky honest folks
and complicit folks
Chiefly in Asia and Africa, but also many
in the UK, Ontario, Australia, and the US
They also operate bogus conferences
Journals with broad coverage
 Why predatory publishers are
problematic
 They corrupt open access and give it a bad name
 Possibly have increased the occurrence of research
misconduct
 Threaten demarcation and the cumulative nature of
research
 Bogus research has affected societal institutions
 They have fostered the creation of predatory conferences
 General public has access to bad science
 They don’t back up their content
 Predatory Criteria
identificationLackconventionally
of transparency (hiding information
given by publishers)
Deception
Don’t follow industry standards
 Fake metrics
Fake metrics (or misleading metrics) are numbers that
are just “made up” and assigned to journals, etc.
Companies sell these metrics and call them “impact
factors”
Publishers use fake metrics on their websites and in their
spam email to make their journals look like real ones and
attract more papers
Problem: The real impact factor data is not free
 Recommendations to identify a publisher
for your work:
1. Identify te details of the journal

 Do you recognize the title and Publisher?

 Does the Journal have legitimate address and
tepephone number listed, or do they use a web form?
 Does the Publisher have a ISNN number?
 Are the editor and editorial board experts in the
stated field of the Journal?
 Are they affiliated with known intitutions?
 Does the journal provide clear information about
publishing fees? (Be suspicious of ¨submission¨
fees)
 Recommendations to identify a publisher
for your work:

2. Check to see if the journal is listed in the

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and/or
the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
(OASPA). Journal must meet strict criteria to be
listed here.

3. Check to see if the journal is indexed in Scimago

or the ISI Thompson Reuters Master Journalist List

4. If in doubt, ask the library for help –CIAT-

Library@cgiar.org
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