Redes de citación de revistas iberoamericanas de Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información en Scopus

Resumen

<b>Objective</b>. The citation networks of the Ibero-American journals of library and information science (LIS) were analyzed, in order to distinguish their internal interrelationships within the scientific structure of the discipline in the region. <b>Design/Methodology/Approach</b>. A co-citation analysis of journals was carried out from the documents of 20 Ibero-American journals indexed in Scopus, from 1996 to 2017. Node clustering techniques were used to examine the predominant communities in the intellectual structure of the discipline. A strategic diagram was constructed based on betweenness and citation measures to classify the journals according to their interdisciplinarity and impact. <b>Results/Discussion</b>. The intellectual structure of LIS in Ibero-America has three main communities: the Portuguese-speaking, the Spanish, and the Latin American Spanish-speaking. The greatest co-citation relations are of internal type in the clusters. An inbreeding of the journals and their countries of origin is appreciated. The journals forming the core of the discipline are <i>Ciência da Informação</i> and <i>El Profesional de la Información</i>. It also highlights the mediating role played by the journal <i>Investigación Bibliotecológica</i> to connect the three communities. <b>Conclusions</b>. There is evidence of a disciplinary fragmentation in the Ibero-American research on LIS, which is permeated by the language and geographical origin of the journals. <b>Originality/Value</b>. This study is an updated approach that shows the current state of the intellectual structure of LIS in Ibero-America, based on the citation relations of the journals in the region.