Metrics
Comunicación y Hombre makes public the latest data for 2023; as of 2019, it makes public some of the journal’s metrics; that is, some tables where the values of aspects that reflect the measurement of its scientific quality appear. These are the latest data for 2023:
In the latest issue of the journal published in January 2023, 70% of the authors are international, 65% of the participating universities are foreign.
In total, this issue includes 13 articles, related to the theme: media, manipulation and use of fear. There are 6 articles on other subjects. The main theme is approached from different areas of study: political communication, disinformation, the covid-19 pandemic, psychology, society, journalism, cinema and manipulation.
The editorial and scientific committee of the journal Comunicación y Hombre has a total of 135 members, 110 of whom are external and 67 of whom are international. Regarding the evaluators, 53 out of a total of 64 are external. Between committees and evaluators we have a total of 199 members, of which 163 are external. Therefore, approximately 80% of the members are external.
In 2023, Comunicación y Hombre obtained the Quality Seal for Spanish Scientific Journals, from FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología) of the Ministry of Science and Research. This distinction identifies Spanish scientific journals that meet internationally recognized professionalization requirements.
List of journals with FECYT Seal 2023: https://calidadrevistas.fecyt.es/revistas-sello-fecyt?page=5
The international index ESCI (Emerging Source Index) has included Comunicación y Hombre in its ranking, after analysis of its Publication Standards, Ethical Publication Practices and editorial content among others In 2018, the journal passed the evaluation criteria for WOS (Web of Science), and is included in the ranking from 2021 in Q4. The journal entered JCR in 2023 in Q4.
https://mjl.clarivate.com/journal-profile
In the ranking conducted in 2023 by REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico), Comunicación y Hombre is ranked 223 out of a total of 1199 publications; being since 2020 in Q2. The journal has a Normalized Impact Factor percentile of 93.703; a percentage of cited articles of 9.184%; a median percentile of 6.240 and an overall Scorer of 22.282
https://www.redib.org/Ranking/Revistas?&lng=pt&anio=2020
The Ranking of REDIB journals includes those journals indexed simultaneously in REDIB and in the different indexes of the Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).
Data are based on citations from indexed articles to indexed articles, aggregating article-article citations at the journal level.
As published in Comunicar, assuming the Impact Factor in 2022, the journal Comunicación y Hombre would be ranked 191 out of the 217 journals indexed in ESCI in the area of Communication, with an Impact of 0.393. The data have been calculated according to the citations received by the articles in the Web of Science Core Collection.
https://www.revistacomunicar.com/index.php?contenido=ranking-revistas-es
Comunicación y Hombre has also been included in FECYT in the List of Spanish journals in 2022 and has obtained a score of 20.34 and the 27th position in the category of Communication, Information and Scientific Documentation.
https://calidadrevistas.fecyt.es/listado-revistas/36?field_anyo_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=2022
In the 2023 MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas Científicas) database, updated annually the data collection of Comunicación y Hombre has obtained an ICDS (Índice Compuesto de Difusión Secundaria) of 9.7 out of 11 in 2021. This indicator shows the visibility of the journal in different scientific databases of international scope and in repertoires of periodical evaluations.
As of 2022, MIAR studies only the presence of the journal in four categories of sources used:
- Comunicación y Hombre is present in 1 Citation database, 3 Multidisciplinary databases, 1 Specialized database and 6 Evaluation resources. Dissemination (c1+m3+e1+x6).
https://miar.ub.edu/issn/1885-365X
The Dialnet Metrics portal, based on the analysis of bibliographic references cited in existing publications in Dialnet, offers a set of indicators to help identify the relevance of scientific production. In the bibliometric index that analyzes the impact of Social Sciences and Humanities journals, this graph of the impact index of Comunicación y Hombre updated in 2022 is presented:
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/metricas/idr/revistas/7220
In 2022, Dialnet Metrics places Comunicación y Hombre in 45th position within the ranking of scientific journals in Communication, with an impact index of 0.20 in the last 5 years.
DICE (Difusión de Calidad Editorial de las Revistas Españolas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas) aims to facilitate knowledge and consultation of some of the editorial characteristics and indirect indicators of quality of Spanish journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
This is stated on its website: http://epuc.cchs.csic.es/dice/index.php
DICE is the result of a collaboration agreement between the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA), which finances its maintenance. It is a tool created by the Grupo de Investigación Evaluación de publicaciones científicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas (EPUC) of the Instituto de Estudios Documentales sobre Ciencia y Tecnología (IEDCYT) of the Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) of the CSIC.
ANECA uses this database as a reference for the quality of Spanish publications in its faculty evaluation processes. The EPUC group reminds publishers that sending the new issues of each journal to this group is essential for the information in DICE to be updated.
According to the last update, these are the data of Comunicación y Hombre that are reflected in the following quadrant.
http://epuc.cchs.csic.es/dice/revista.php?rev=1885-365X
According to the information system that integrates quality indicators for Spanish scientific journals in Social Sciences and Humanities, RESH (Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) in 2023:
The journal Comunicación y Hombre meets 34 quality criteria out of 38 from LATINDEX. In addition, the journal meets 15 criteria out of 22 from ANECA, and 13 out of 18 quality criteria from CNEAI.
However, some of these indicators will have an improvement given the recent progress made by the journal in recent months.
https://latindex.org/latindex/ficha/4527
Regarding citations in GOOGLE SCHOLAR, the journal obtains an h5 Index of 9 and h5 Median of 14. The impact index is the h5 indicator, i.e. the number of citations collected through the Google Scholar Metrics tool, which relates the articles published in the last 5 years with the number of citations received.
These are the graphs of the citations of Comunicación y Hombre published in Google Scholar.
https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=5HVUrIoAAAAJ&hl=es
In CIRC (Clasificación Integrada de Revistas científicas), classification of scientific journals of Social and Human Sciences according to the evaluation received in the existing evaluation products, especially those evaluated by CNEAI (Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora), the journal Comunicación y Hombre appears assigned with the letter C in the study of 2023.
https://clasificacioncirc.es/ficha_revista?id=46743
The journal Comunicación y Hombre is also present in REDALYC (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal). According to this platform, 72% of the articles published by Comunicación y Hombre are by authors external to the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria.
In addition, the journal is within the G4 Group of the internationalization index; downloads of the journal come from the USA, Mexico, Colombia, China and Spain, among others. The following graph shows the monthly downloads of the journal between 2020 and 2023.
https://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1294&tipo=indicadores
Also, LATINDEX (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal) has included the journal Comunicación y Hombre in its 2.0 catalog with a compliance of 34 criteria out of 38.
https://latindex.org/latindex/ficha/4527
According to Google Analytics data, Comunicación y Hombre magazine obtained the following session results that are reflected in the graphics present on the website itself. We are going to show some of these here.
From July 1, 2018 to June 1, 2019 sessions 932. The highest points in November 2018 sessions 1, 634 and in April 2019 sessions 1, 981
From July 1, 2016 (sessions 110) to June 1, 2019 (sessions 995), passing through points such as April 1, 2019 (sessions 1,981).
As for the organic and user search graphs, these are the ones presented in the last year.
July 1, 2018 (organic searches 118) July 1, 2019 (organic searches 716) going through two critical moments: April 1, 2019 (organic searches 1,341) March 1, 2019 (organic searches 1, 181)
This map shows the countries in which the users of Comunicación y Hombre are present. Through this map, data can be abstracted that will be useful for the allocation of quadrants of percentages of internationalization of the magazine and visibility.
Data from the last three years (2017-2018-2019)
Data extracted on June 20, 2019
As for the sessions and pages read below, you can see the information that is extracted and access to the articles on Communication and Man. The following quadrant then shows the references through which sites the sessions are held, with the vast majority of specialized entries being seen.
