Visibility of Panamanian scientific journals in regional indexers and Google Scholar

Abstract

– This work aims to show an analysis of scientific journals in Panama to know their visibility, reach on different platforms and the impact of their publications through basic bibliometric indicators such as citations and hindex extracted from the Google Scholar Citations platform and the Publish of Perish tool. The document identifies 97 magazines from 48 institutions in Panama that make their scientific production visible through magazines in digital and printed format. A search of these journals is carried out in 16 directories, databases and indexers to verify their visibility. Within the results, 62 digital journals are framed and barely 32 use the Opern Journal System, only 4 journa ls are found in 10 of the 16 platforms evaluated, none have open access policies and only one journal has a Hindex greater than 6. comparison with Costa Rican journals, where the average number of citations in Panamanian journals is only 0.38 citations per publicatio n, which indicates that there is little visibility, little reach, which is reflected in the little or no impact of the publications. Keywords-- bibliometrics, visibility, journals, Google Scholar, indicators