Abstract
SANTOS, S. M. Profile of scientific journals in Social Sciences and Humanities: mapping of extrinsic characteristics. 2010. 176f. Master’s Dissertation in Information Science – School of Communications and Arts, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 2010. This research is an exploratory and descriptive study that analyzes Brazilian scientific journals in the social sciences and humanities, indexed by SciELO database. The methodology adopted consisted of the partial implementation of the assessment model developed by Bomfa (2003). The 73 journals were analyzed, mainly in their aspects of quality extrinsic criteria. However, the study was also conducted to analyze qualitative aspects, such as publication language, indexing in databases and Qualis classification, as well as, quantitative indicators related to journals impact factor, Half-life, granted citations, received citations, issues number, articles number and number of articles journals requests. The results show that considering extrinsic aspects, these journals has improved significantly and in terms of formal aspects, are no longer so far apart from journals which have strong tradition of communicating scientific results in scholarly journals.
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