Visibility of Panamanian scientific journals in regional indexers and Google Scholar

Authors

Murillo, Danny

Fernández, Madelaine

Añino, Yostin

López, Omar

Abstract

This work aims to show an analysis of scientific journals in Panama to know their visibility, scope on different platforms and the impact of their publications through basic bibliometric indicators such as citations and hindex extracted from the Google Scholar Citations platform and the tool Publish of Perish. The document identifies 97 magazines from 48 institutions in Panama that make their scientific production visible through magazines in digital and printed format. A search of these journals is carried out in 16 directories, databases and indexers to verify their visibility. Within the results, 62 digital journals are framed and barely 32 use OJS, only 4 journals are found in 10 of the 16 platforms evaluated, none have open access policies and only one journal has a Hindex greater than 6. A comparison is made with Costa Rican journals, where the average number of citations in Panamanian journals is only 0.38 citations per publication, which indicates that there is little visibility, little reach, which is reflected in the little or no impact of the publications.