Editorial path and the visibility of scientific publications: an exploratory case study on the journal Tchê Química

• Autor(a) principal: Mira, Bianca Savegnago de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Caroline Gomes de, Shintaku, Milton
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8668225
• topic: Periódicos Científicos; Índices de Periódicos; Análise de Citação; Scientific Journals; Journal Indexes.; Citation Analysis

Introduction: Scientific production in the field of Hard Sciences in Brazil is predominantly published by international journals. Therefore, is understandable that national journals seek international relevance to attract better visibility and consequently guarantee a greater number of publications. Traditionally, the Hard Sciences have journals as their preferred channel for disseminating research results. However, in Brazil these disciplines are predominantly publish in international journals. Thus, it is understandable that the national journals linked to the Rigid Sciences seek international relevance. Objective: The study aims understand the problems related to journals in the field of Chemistry, mainly that concern visibility. Methodology and Results: We chose to select a single journal and analyze its editorial path, through the Journal Ranking provide by the Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), belonging to Scopus. The journal chosen was Tchê Química and its editorial path was analized. The journal remained indexed to the Scopus database from 2011 to 2020. The analyzes included the data provided by the SJR and a citation network built in the VOSviewer software from the citing journals of Tchê Química. Conclusion: It is concluded that the journal has a strong relationship with specific journals and that is ranking results are linked to the citations of these journals and to selfcitations.