Revistas de educación e investigación educativa. Modelos de negocio y desempeño bibliométrico

  1. Mañana Rodríguez, Jorge
  2. Giménez-Toledo, Elea
Journal:
Revista de educación

ISSN: 0034-8082

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 369

Pages: 31-58

Type: Article

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Abstract

Education scientific journals are a key element for the progress of educational research. The added value which might be expected from the rising prices of scientific journals has one of its accountable factors in the bibliometric indicators as a measure of performance. The research question addressed in this paper is whether there are significant differences in bibliometric performance of the most expensive (in terms of price per article, price per citation and other related measures detailed in Appendix I) educational research journals in JCR 2013 when compared with the less expensive educational journals or not. For this purpose, data was gathered from Journal Prices and Journal Citation Reports, for Education & Educational Research journals. Statistical analyses comparing the bibliometric performance of the most expensive against the less expensive educational research journals evidences the existence of non-significative differences between the two segments in most of the variables analyzed, thus putting into question the added value of buying and / or publishing in expensive educational research journals. It is concluded that, at least from a bibliometric perspective, expensive educational journals do not add significant value to the contents published. This can be understood as an abnormality in the market of scientific journals and might, in the long run, compromise the knowledge exchange among researchers working in education fields.

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