Geração de indicadores para periódicos científicos abertos

Abstract

Editorial teams usually engage in constant efforts to meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements demanded by indexing
agencies. Those journals which, due to the fact that they have not been consolidated in the areas of interest for publication – and
consequent non-insertion in indexing databases – usually don’t apply procedures to collect, compute and analyze data that could
help managers in the decision making process. Under this assumption, a question has been raised concerning the feasibility (and
conditions) in which the use of data present in the Open Journal Systems platform - as an environment for publishing scientific journals – along with other sources under the domain/scope of the journal managers could generate performance indicators. The objective of this study was, therefore, to explore a methodology for the generation of such indicators, which integrates the creation and use of an article reference base; evaluation criteria for scientific journals derived from literature; and a process of metadata extraction. This methodology, applied to nine issues of the journal “AtoZ: novas práticas em informação e conhecimento”, gave rise to the exploration of a corpus of references in BibTeX and existing metadata. The results helped to design, create and analyze ten indicators which can, potentially, assist the editorial team in reviewing the strategic vision of the journal.