CITATION ANALYSIS OF THE JOURNAL RA XIMHAI

Abstract

This is an exploratory study about the scientific impact of the Ra Ximhai scientific journal, using the number of citations as a metric. The Ra Ximhai scientific journal is a biannual publication in charge of the Intercultural Autonomous University of Sinaloa, which publishes it in both digital and print versions since 2005. A citation analysis was made with the goal of knowing the impact of its publications in the scientific community to date. We collected information on the amount of citations the scientific articles on Ra Ximhai have, using Hazarding’s Publish or Perish 6 software, which collected information from Google Scholar. We performed a total of 14 queries, one per year, since 2005 until 2018, obtaining a total of 935 documents, multidisciplinary scientific journals and book reviews. We got 5431 citations in total and the most cited article to date had 241 citations. We show some descriptive statistics and a Pareto’s analysis, which also shows that the most cited articles on the journal are the ones that have more than 8 citations. The specific bibliometric analysis of the Ra Ximhai scientific journal will give a framework to continue investigations on the topic, comparing the results with other scientific journals of similar themes and also as a diagnosis of the current situation of the journal.

Keywords

• Ra Ximhai
• citations
• impact
• review.