Abstract
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> SciELO is a scientific journal database operating in 14 countries. It covers over 1000 journals providing open access to full text and table sets of scientometrics data. In Brazil it is responsible for a collection of nearly 300 journals, selected along 15 years as the best Brazilian periodicals in natural and social sciences. Nonetheless, they still are national journal in the sense that over 80% of the articles are published by Brazilian scientists. Important initiatives focused on professionalization and internationalization are considered to bring these journals to a higher level of quality and visibility. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><br />The idea of adopting the open access model for journals had only reached a large audience by the end of the nineties. One of the motivations was the distress of the university librarians due to the impossibility of keeping up with the subscription prices of their journal collections. The bothering of many scientists for having to pay access charges for articles on the internet also weighted significantly. After all, in its beginning the internet was a communication system that served exclusively the academic world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><br />The SciELO system is a fifteen years old program of support to selected scientific journals that operate on an open access platform. It was adopted by eleven other Latin American countries as well as Spain, Portugal, and South Africa, reaching over a thousand journals. It may be considered one of the most important programs of scientific communication in emerging countries and a world`s leading one adhering the open access model. </span></p>
Highlights
In emerging countries most journals were born in and administered by academic institutions or scientific societies
The presence of commercial publishers of journals indexed in the Thomson-Reuters database attains 10.4%, 33.7%, 64.7% and 84.0% for Brazil, India China, and Russia, respectively
The relatively low penetration of international publishers in Brazil might be explained by the presence of SciELO
Summary
In emerging countries most journals were born in and administered by academic institutions or scientific societies. Is it possible to find an explanation for the differences amongst the countries? Journals launched by the seventies led to a four-fold increase in the number of titles to the present Their reputation has been evaluated as being due to various assets. One would expect that each of the assets should favor increased impact factors if selected in the following way: articles in English, open access, powerful international publishers, and prestigious scientists as editors-in chief. The influence of each of these four assets is not straightforward
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