[Sigmetrics] Bibliometrics of a Spanish Journal as a tool for survival

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

ARDEOLA, A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY: COOPERATIVE SURVIVORSHIP 
WITHIN THE RED QUEEN GAME

Mario DÍAZ, Eulalia MORENO, Juan A. AMAT, Beatriz ARROYO, Emilio BARBA,
Jacob GONZÁLEZ-SOLÍS, Paola LAIOLO, Florentino DE LOPE, Santiago MERINO,
José Ramón OBESO and Alberto VELANDO

Ardeola 63(1), 2016, 3-14 DOI: 10.13157/arla.63.1.2016.ed1

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303897672_ARDEOLA_A_SCIENTIFIC_JOURNAL_OF_ORNITHOLOGY_COOPERATIVE_SURVIVORSHIP_WITHIN_THE_RED_QUEEN_GAME

Ardeola is the scientific journal of the Spanish Ornithological Society.
We analyze historical changes in citation, topics and foreign authorship
of articles published in Ardeola from its first publication in 1954 up
to last year, 2015, to test to what extent the persistence of the
journal during the last 61 years has been due to support of authors,
Society members, readers, editors or the whole ornithological community.
Analyses were done within the context of the Red Queen game played by
scientific journals competing for the best and more cited articles. The
impact factor of Ardeola has increased from 1985 onwards both in
absolute and relative terms. Thematic changes have followed trends of
the general ornithological literature, without the journal specializing
in particular topics or geographical regions. Foreign authorship
decreased from 1954 up to the end of the 20th century, subsequently
increasing again, a trend fueled by coverage by Current Contents and the
JCR, the establishment of English as the language of publication and
recent Internet access though the BioOne platform. Ardeola is a
traditional scientific journal, backed by a scientific society, whose
future will be guaranteed by a reputation for rigor and quality sought
by authors, reviewers and editors, supported by the members of the
Spanish Ornithological Society and retaining its original objective: ‘to
be a journal at the level of the best…, looking for a strong
collaboration with foreign authors to promote the benefit of the
Ornithology’

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Isidro F. Aguillo
Dr. Honoris Causa Universitas Indonesia
Dr. Honoris Causa National Research Nuclear University Moscow
Editor Rankings Web
Cybermetrics Lab - Scimago Group, IPP-CSIC
Madrid. SPAIN

isidro.aguillo at csic.es
ORCID 0000-0001-8927-4873
ResearcherID: A-7280-2008
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