The Internationality Index of the Spanish Psychology journals

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"The concept of international publication is one of the most utilizedcriteria to evaluate the productivity of researchers and scientific institutions. Nevertheless,it is also one of the most polemic subjects as until the presence, no InternationalityIndex has been defined nor established. This descriptive study analyzes the SpanishPsychology journals included in the IN-RECS database according to the level of theinternationality. Each journal was evaluated taking into account the eleven criteria ofthe internationality (the publication language, the impact factor -in this case the ImpactIndex according to the IN-RECS database-, the countries from which the members ofthe editorial boards are, the names of the journals, the inclusion in the Journal CitationReports, the countries from which the authors are, the standards of publication, theinternet access, the free internet access, the inclusion in the databases, and the journal’saffiliation to “international” associations). The scores of each journal in all criteriawere summed up and sorted by the total scores in the internationality in the descendingorder which resulted in the Internationality Index of the Spanish Psychology Journals.It is important to emphasize that four of the five journals which occupy the highestpositions in the ranking are indexed in the Web of Science."