Scientific journals of biological sciences: study of the titles classified in the stratum A1 of the Qualis

Authors

  • Patricia da Silva Neubert Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação (PGCIN). Florianópolis, Brasil. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8909-1898
  • Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação (PGCIN). Florianópolis, Brasil.
  • Yara Maria Rauh Müller Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Celular e do Desenvolvimento (PBCD). Florianópolis, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i3.1251

Keywords:

scientific journals, biological sciences, Qualis, Web of Science, open access, commercial publishers.

Abstract

This article presents a study of the journals in which the national production in the area of biological sciences is published, with the purpose of: a) to describe the editorial characteristics of the journals; b) to identify the participation of commercial publishers; and c) to verify the adoption of open access. The universe of the study is composed of journals classified in the stratum A1 of Qualis 2014 of the area of Biological Sciences I, totalling 131 journals, and the data were extracted from the Web of Science. The results of the research show that all the journals were edited in foreign countries, especially in United States and United Kingdon (83,21%). The journals were created since 1860, but their expansion started in 1960 (75,57%) and they are maintained by associations and commercial publishers (83,96%), being in an evident position of prominence the groups Elsevier (23,66%), Wiley (18,32%) and Springer (12,21%). The greatest number of articles is published in English (99,98%) and the offer of open access by these journals is low (8,4%).

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Published

2017-09-29

How to Cite

Neubert, P. da S., Rodrigues, R. S., & Müller, Y. M. R. (2017). Scientific journals of biological sciences: study of the titles classified in the stratum A1 of the Qualis. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i3.1251

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Original articles

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