Identification of Core Journals and Analysis of Collaboration Networks Among Researchers in Ibero America

Abstract

In this paper we survey scientific production published in Ibero American journals in four subject areas: Medicine, Education, Administration & Finance, and Psychology during the period between 1997 and mid-2013, based on data from Redalyc. Two aspects are analysed, firstly we conduct a Bradford analysis of the journals in question and identify those journals condense the majority of relevant articles for a researcher in that particular field. Secondly, by applying tools from network analysis, we map the collaboration networks, per country, of researchers publishing in Ibero America.