Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature published in the magazine La Técnica (2010-2016)

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the scientific production of the journal La Técnica, from its inception (2010) to the last issue o f 2016. This magazine, as a source of information, constituted, in its beginnings, a channel of academic diffusion And research, promoting the debate around university teaching among the teachers of the Technical University of Manabi, covering all areas of knowledge. At the end of the year 2014, until today, it is decided that the thematic coverage of the journal is only the Agricultural Sciences. The study, in question, is descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective, making use of bibliometric indicators for the analysis of information. In the theoretical deployment, the use of methods analysis and synthesis and logical history to locate the ideas and, as an empirical method, the application of the documentary analysis to the published literature on the sub ject and the articles that make up the journal in the period of study. The most significant results highlight the need to attend to the productivity index of the authors within the journal; Progress is shown in relation toscientific collaboration; It is necessary to work with the degree of bsolescence of the references that are used, due to the low index of Price resulting; The number of references per article is considered normal; The documentary typology that stands out is the consultation of scientific articles and the most consulted documents are those in the Spanish language. The conclusions point to the attention of the bibliometric indicators analyzed toplace the journal in databases of greater visibility with the possibility of integrating the Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJCR), which would place it as the first reference of the Ecuatorian Agricultural Sciences Worldwide.