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Some negative consequences of the criteria for evaluating research production of Spanish scholars are described. The prevalence of the Journal citation reports impact factor is harmful for the scientific publications of Spanish publishers, limits the open access policies of university [...]

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The relationships between politics and scientists of interest in the findings of bibliometric studies are discussed in this text. The use of bibliometric arguments by commissions such as Cneai (Comisión Nacional de Evaluación de la Actividad Investigadora), among others, in the [...]

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A proposal for a qualitative classification of scientific journals specialized in social sciences and humanities is presented. The main objective of CIRC (in Spanish, Clasificación integrada de revistas científicas) is to become a tool to obtain bibliometrics indicators for different [...]

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LA COMISIÓN NACIONAL EVALUADORA DE LA ACTIVIDAD INVESTIGADORA (CNEAI)1 fue creada en el año 1989 como organización dependiente del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Lleva a cabo la evaluación de la actividad investigadora de los profesores universitarios y de las escalas científicas [...]