The scientific production of acta colombiana de psicología: Descriptive and bibliometric analysis of the period 2015 - 2019

Ravelo-Contreras E.L.; Barboza-Palomino M.; Mejía S.; Millán J.D.; Salas G. · Acta Colombiana de Psicologia (2020) · DOI: 10.14718/acp.2020.23.2.8

Resumen

The objective of this article is the description and bibliometric analysis of the articles published in the journal Acta Colombiana de Psicología between 2015 and 2019. Their evolution and trends are analyzed to implement strategies that allow their per-manent qualification regarding a) scientific quality, b) visibility, c) impact and d) geographic coverage, among others. The database included 127 scientific articles. Descriptive analyzes (frequencies and percentages) were performed and some biblio-metric indices were calculated: a) productivity index, b) Lawani and Subramanyam indices and c) Pratt index. These analyzes were carried out using an Excel spreadsheet supplemented with the IBM SPSS version 23 statistical package. The most significant findings allow observing an important number of papers with international authorship (74%), high development of articles in the areas of clinical and health psychology (42.5%) and psychometry (21.3%) and an emphasis on works of a quantitative nature (87%). The journal continues making significant contributions to the development of psychology in Latin America.

Instituciones: Universidad Privada del Norte