Brazilian nursing journals: strengths, weaknesses and challenges

To evaluate, qualitatively, the Brazilian nursing journals and identify their strengths and weaknesses when compared to international journals in the area.

Methods:

A historic approach regarding the period from 2012 to 2016. We included national nursing journals indexed in the SciELO Database and international journals with an impact factor above 1.0 and below 1.8 indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases.

Results:

The national journals met SciELO requirements for internationalization and obtained visibility when they were included in international indexing bases. Their citations were mostly national, with the following mean values: 86% in Portuguese; 12% in Spanish and 2% in English.

Conclusion:

The excellence requirements of the national journals are being accomplished. The publication of articles in Spanish can impact on the increase of bibliometric indicators.

Descriptors:
Quality Management; Periodicals; Bibliometrics; Nursing; Research

Journals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Type of access	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	H	A
Publisher Webpage	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Own Webpage	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Association	N	N	S	N	N	N	N	S	N	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Support	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E
Periodicity	BM	CF	BM	CF	CF	CF	QT	M	CF	TTY	TTY	TTY	TTY	TTY

Journals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Establishment	1988	1997	1932	1967	1976	1993	1992	1900	1988	1960	1986	1999	1994	1978
Ethical aspects declaration	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	NA	Y	Y	Y
Anti-plagiarism software	Y	Y	Y	Y	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Y	NA	NA	Y	Y
Clarity in IAs*	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Flow explanation	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Full-text language	2	3	2	3	2	3	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	1
Abstract/descriptors languages	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	1	1	2	1	1	1	1
Fees	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
How-to-cite	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	Y
Citation Export	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Facebook	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Twitter	Y	Y	N	N	N	N	N	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Others (Mendeley, etc.)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	Y	N	Y	Y	N
E-mail alerts	N	Y	N	N	N	N	N	Y	Y	N	Y	Y	Y	N

Journals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	M(SD)	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	M(SD)
Editors-in-chief - H index	8	8	12	19	5	14	8	10(4.7)	3	20	9	18	6	26	17	14(8.3)
International editorial board (%)	69	56	29	34	32	56	46	46(15)	32	10	5	8	87	81	6	33(36)
National editorial body (%)	31	44	71	66	68	44	54	54(15)	68	90	95	92	13	19	94	67(36)

Journals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
References made	5842	4863	7452	17200	6966	12690	12242
Portuguese	3210(55%)	3970(82%)	5815(78%)	10089(58%)	5499(79%)	6932(55%)	8807(72%)
Spanish	72(1%)	97(2%)	69(1%)	143(1%)	69(1%)	321(3%)	225(2%)
English	2560(44%)	796(16%)	1568(21%)	6968(40%)	1428(21%)	5437(42%)	3210(26%)
Citations received	3860	4198	5293	6414	2330	8439	4562
Portuguese	3374(87%)	3796(89%)	4638(88%)	5653(88%)	2065(89%)	7039(83%)	4055(89%)
Spanish	383(10%)	303(9%)	534(10%)	617(10%)	216(9%)	1162(14%)	408(9%)
English	103(3%)	99 (2%)	121(2%)	144(2%)	49(2%)	238(3%)	99(2%)

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[1] CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Magdalena Jose Avena. E-mail: mavena@gmail.com