Characteristics of monographic special issues in Ibero-American psychology journals: visibility and relevance for authors and publishers.

Autor/inn/en	Sala, Francisco González; Lluch, Julia Osca; Gil, Francisco Tortosa; Ortega, María Peñaranda
Titel	Characteristics of monographic special issues in Ibero-American psychology journals: visibility and relevance for authors and publishers.
Quelle	In: Scientometrics, (2017) 2, S.1069-1077 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0138-9130
DOI	10.1007/s11192-017-2372-4
Schlagwörter	Monographic issue; Special issue; Ibero-American journals; Psychology; Number of citations
Abstract	Abstract This paper aims to determine the existence of differential characteristics between monographic special issues and regular non-monographic issues published by psychology journals according to different bibliometric indicators. The materials studied consisted of a total of 1120 articles published in 10 Ibero-American psychology journals included in the JCRs from 2013 to 2015. The number of monographic articles was 286 and the non-monographic works were 834. The results indicate that the articles published in monographic special issue journal receive a higher number of citations and that their publication times are shorter. A greater presence of journal committee members as authors of the papers in monographic special issues was also observed, and the number of authors per paper was lower compared to articles published in non-monographs. As a conclusion, publishing papers in monographic special issues versus non-monographic in the reviewed journals has some advantages for both journals and authors, such as greater international visibility and shorter publication times.
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Update	2023/2/05