ABSTRACT
This research studies the characteristics of the p journals Brazilians of the large area of Agrarian Sciences indexed in the Web of specific objective Science and Scopus. The specific objectives are: a) To identify the journals Brazilians of the large area of Agrarian Sciences defined by the CAPES; b) To describe the characteristics of the journals ones: year of creation; entity publishing company; quality indicators; accepted idioms; regularity; platforms; persistent identification; e c) To identify to the sponsorship and the model of financing of the journals ones. The methodology used for the research is characterized as bibliographical, documental, descriptive and exploratória, with quali-quantitative analysis. The corpus of the study is journals the scientific Brazilians registered in the WebQualis of the large area of Agrarian Sciences, defined for the CAPES and indexd in the WoS and resulted Scopus.O it identified 74 you search, 71 in open access and three for subscription. All the 74 periodic are indexed in the Scopus and 44 together between the Scopus and WoS . The main publishing entities are the universities, which maintain 50 % (37) of journals, resulted from the associations with 32,4 % (24), institutes of inquiry with 13,5 % (10), and a commercial publisher with 4,1 % (3). One checks that no journals is a Qualis A1 and the predominance of the titles they are in the stratum B1, with 43,2 % (32) you search. As for the financing model, 56,8 % (42) journals adopt the golden road and 29,7 % (32) of the titles follow the Platine road.
Keywords:
Scientific communication; Brazilian scientific journals; Agrarian sciences