Semantically Identifying Regional-Indexed Publications, a Web-Exploring Approach

The indexing services are an important element of researching process because they make publicly available research results and articles for the community. Furthermore, regional indices such Latindex have contributed to spreading scientific works and incentivizing research in the Latin-American context. However, the un-centralized publication approach that its member journals follow has made impossible to form a unified view of Latindex-indexed articles and its corresponding journals. This drawback has limited activities such biblio-metric studies and integration from the perspective of information systems. In this paper, a linking mechanism between journals and publications is outlined, which aims to identify explicitly whether or not an arbitrary article belongs to Latindex. The proposed approach leverages on the Linked Data principles and takes advantage of web search engines to validate its results. This proposal has successfully been evaluated on an Ecuadorian publications dataset obtaining a 0.91 f-score respect to a manually classified sample.