Abstract
The Neotropical Ichthyology journal was created in 2003 and soon became one of the main publications in its field as it is reflected in the number of articles submitted every year and the fact that it has been indexed by both SciELO and ISI. In order to understand the reasons for its trajectory, the journal history was recovered and bibliometric indices on author, citation and impact factor were mapped for the period between 2003 and 2010. A descriptive study on journal information source and a bibliometric study of the 388 articles published by the journal and the 642 articles that cite it have been carried out. Bibliometric analyses showed that 75.8% of the articles had been written by Brazilian authors and 91.3% had been published in collaboration. The journal was cited by 171 different publications from 28 countries, including renowned journals in the field. Self-citation accounted for 26.8% of journal citation. Analyses have been able to show that strict evaluation control and editing of the articles have contributed towards its success and internationalization.
Highlights
Scientific journals are fundamental in formal scientific communication and they register, legitimate and disseminate scientific output
When analyzing the Brazilian journals represented in the international database of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), one recently created journal, dedicated to a specialized subject, which had already been published and indexed by the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) with an impact factor close to 1.0, was found
The journal has had its impact factor evaluated by the Journal Citation Report (JCR)
Summary
Scientific journals are fundamental in formal scientific communication and they register, legitimate and disseminate scientific output They were created to include contributions resulting from scientific research in a specific field of knowledge and in time have become ever more subdivided or specialized. The study of such publications has always kept scientific communication researchers busy, casting their gaze on the community that generates them and on how knowledge is produced and disseminated in a specific field of knowledge in order to understand it. The study of journals can have several aims, such as investigating aspects of their output, dissemination or use, by means of bibliometric indices of production and use Such indices are used in the mapping of scientific activity and to subsidize national policies on Science. All scientific journal researchers are aware of the difficulties faced by Brazilian journals to reach such a standard, the need to investigate the Neotropical Ichthyology journal became evident
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