VacciMonitor (Jan 2015)
El acceso a VacciMonitor puede hacerse a través de la Web of Science / Accessing VacciMonitor by the Web of Science
Abstract
VacciMonitor has gradually increased its visibility by access to different databases. Thus, it was introduced in the project SciELO, EBSCO, HINARI, Redalyc, SCOPUS, DOAJ, SICC Data Bases, SeCiMed, among almost thirty well-known index sites, including the virtual libraries of the main universities from United States of America and other countries. Through an agreement SciELO-Web of Science (WoS) it will be possible to include the journals that are indexed in SciELO in the WoS, however this collaboration work is already presenting its outcomes, it is possible to access the content of SciELO by WoS in the link: http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinar y/scielo/ WoS was designed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and it is one of the products of the pack ISI Web of Knowledge, currently property of Thomson Reuters (1). WoS is a service of citation index and databases, worldwide on-line leader with multidisciplinary information covering the knowledge fields of sciences in general, social sciences as well as arts and humanities with more than 46 million of bibliographical references and other hundreds of citations, that made possible navigation in the broad web of journal articles, lecture materials and other registers included in its collection (1). The logic of the functioning of WoS is based on quantitative criteria, since a bigger production demonstrates a greater number of registered papers in most recognized Journals and to what extend these papers are cited by these journals (2). The information obtained from WoS databases are very useful to address efforts of scientific research to a personal, institutional or national level. Scientists publishing in WoS journals not only produce more scientific literature but also this literature is more consulted and used (3). However, it should be considered that statistics of this site for the bibliometric analysis only take into account those journals in this web, but contains three integrated databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index and Art & Humanities Citation Index (1). By analyzing the information available in WoS, it is possible to know in a general way, which researchers are more productive and influent in the knowledge fields, which institutions has more productions and are more quoted, which journals have more presence (impact) in different disciplines, where the journal articles, quoted in documents published by interest institution, come from (4). Finally, which the more discussed topics are and in which knowledge area the researchers from a certain country have more presence. (4). Individually, it permits to know how many quotes exists by knowledge area, with this information the researcher knows if his/her articles surpass or not the average and facilitates the decision making to increase visibility and quotes of the researches (5). Currently, in VacciMonitor was crucial its indexation in SciELO and SCOPUS, for it will allow, among other criteria, the inclusion in WoS, in addition it permitted to access to the impact index according to SJR (SCImago Journal & Country Rank). VacciMonitor is confirmed as the leader journal on vaccinology in our region and it aims at gradually increasing its scope by accessing new databases. We would like to appreciate authors, for sending high scientific quality papers, reviewers for their correct and critical recommendations and the editorial and scientific board for the revision, editing and constancy. Referencias/References Thomson Reuters. Web of Science: The definitive resource for global research. New York: Thomson Reuters; 2014. Disponible en: /scientific.thomsonreuters.com/. 2. Thomson Reuters. Web of Knowledge notas de la versión v5.11. New York: Thomson Reuters; 2013. Disponible en: wokinfo.com/media/pdf/wok_5-11_releasenotes-es.pdf. 3. Romero L. Respondiendo preguntas. Rev Peru Biol 2009;16(1):3-4. 4. Cortés J. Web of Science: termómetro de la producción internacional de conocimiento: Ventajas y limitaciones. CULCyT 2008;5(29):5-15. 5. Cardoso MI, Zoqui AA. La Merecida Visibilidad de las Revistas Latinoamericanas de Psicología. Rev Colom Psicol 2012;21(1):111-23.
