Title
The scientific production of acta colombiana de psicología: Descriptive and bibliometric analysis of the period 2015 - 2019
Other title
[La producción científica de la revista acta colombiana de psicología: Análisis descriptivo y bibliométrico del período 2015-2019]
Date Issued
30 July 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad Catolica de Colombia
Abstract
The objective of this article is the description and bibliometric analysis of the articles published in the journal Acta Colombiana de Psicología between 2015 and 2019. Their evolution and trends are analyzed to implement strategies that allow their per-manent qualification regarding a) scientific quality, b) visibility, c) impact and d) geographic coverage, among others. The database included 127 scientific articles. Descriptive analyzes (frequencies and percentages) were performed and some biblio-metric indices were calculated: a) productivity index, b) Lawani and Subramanyam indices and c) Pratt index. These analyzes were carried out using an Excel spreadsheet supplemented with the IBM SPSS version 23 statistical package. The most significant findings allow observing an important number of papers with international authorship (74%), high development of articles in the areas of clinical and health psychology (42.5%) and psychometry (21.3%) and an emphasis on works of a quantitative nature (87%). The journal continues making significant contributions to the development of psychology in Latin America.
Start page
188
End page
204
Volume
23
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Estadísticas, Probabilidad
Ciencias de la información
Ciencias de la Información
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85093898363
Source
Acta Colombiana de Psicologia
ISSN of the container
01239155
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus