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Some aspects of citation indexes in Spain: A comparative analysis

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This paper studies the main characteristics of the citation indexes currently developed in Spain. The paper compares the impact factors offered by Spanish citation indexes with the impact factor of Spanish journals also collected by the JCRs of the ISI (SCI and SSCI) over a five-year period (2001–2005). Spanish journals published in English have higher impact factor scores in the JCR databases of the ISI than in Spanish citation indexes.

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  1. Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación López Piñero, Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, Valencia, 46010, Spain

    Julia Osca-Lluch & Elena Velasco

  2. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Pedro Blesa

  3. Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    José Manuel Barrueco

  4. Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, Greenvale, USA

    Thomas Krichel

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Osca-Lluch, J., Blesa, P., Barrueco, J.M. et al. Some aspects of citation indexes in Spain: A comparative analysis. Scientometrics 75, 313–318 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1867-9

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