Open AccessAre there chances of improving Colombian engineering journals rankings?
Author(s) -
Andrés Pavas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ingeniería e investigación/ingeniería e investigación
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2248-8723
pISSN - 0120-5609
DOI - 10.15446/ing.investig.v37n3.69519
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , perspective (graphical) , order (exchange) , index (typography) , library science , data science , computer science , political science , engineering ethics , regional science , information retrieval , engineering , sociology , world wide web , business , artificial intelligence , finance
The results of the most recent evaluation of the Colombian scientific journals, performed by Colciencias resorting to the Colombian Bibliographic Index - Publindex, was released recently. Several discussions have been made on the consequences. This document presents and analysis with a different perspective: is there something that authors and editors could do in order to improve the ranking of the journals? The document presents data and analysis applicable to engineering scientific journals.