Scientific journals of biological sciences: study of the titles classified in the stratum A1 of the Qualis
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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i3.1251Keywords:
scientific journals, biological sciences, Qualis, Web of Science, open access, commercial publishers.Abstract
This article presents a study of the journals in which the national production in the area of biological sciences is published, with the purpose of: a) to describe the editorial characteristics of the journals; b) to identify the participation of commercial publishers; and c) to verify the adoption of open access. The universe of the study is composed of journals classified in the stratum A1 of Qualis 2014 of the area of Biological Sciences I, totalling 131 journals, and the data were extracted from the Web of Science. The results of the research show that all the journals were edited in foreign countries, especially in United States and United Kingdon (83,21%). The journals were created since 1860, but their expansion started in 1960 (75,57%) and they are maintained by associations and commercial publishers (83,96%), being in an evident position of prominence the groups Elsevier (23,66%), Wiley (18,32%) and Springer (12,21%). The greatest number of articles is published in English (99,98%) and the offer of open access by these journals is low (8,4%).
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