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Although the field of Communication Sciences has been slower to organize in Spain than in other European countries and the United States, in recent years it has shown a clear tendency to growth. One way to trace this process is by analyzing scientific production, and this paper focuses on this aspect. Using bibliometric methods, we analyze scientific journals and papers indexed in Thomson Reuter’s international database, the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for Communication. While the focus of the study is Spanish scientific output, the results are related to international activities in this field. The three Spanish journals included in SSCI in recent years: «Comunicar», «Comunicación y Sociedad» and «Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico» were studied in detail. The results show that Spain plays an important role in Communcation journal publishing (4th in the world) and as a producer of scientific papers (6th in the world), with a remarkable evolution, in quantitative terms, especially in the last five years. The inclusion of these three Spanish journals in the international database has been an important contribution to the country's visibility in this field, but there is still a need to promote international collaboration to achieve greater impact and openness in the scientific community.

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The number of Spanish journals indexed in the database Web of science is analyzed. It has grown from 44 in 2005 to 149 in 2009. Yet it seems that Spain is not adequately represented in relation to its scientific and publishing potential. The Spain presence in Scopus is considerably larger, with 223 journals.

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The aim is to present the current situation of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences (PASS) journals in Spain. The inventory of Spanish journals is updated and several basic editorial characteristics, such as longevity, periodicity, place of publication, editorial institution and support, and type of editorial format are analyzed. The journals’ circulation in national and international databases and internet dissemination (based on accessibility, content and added services) are also studied. We conclude that PASS is still a young field that has not yet consolidated its academic presence, as shown by the basic editorial characteristics of it scientific and technical journals. Nonetheless, these journals have seen a significant improvement in their database indexing and internet presence in recent years.

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The main features of 207 Spanish health sciences journals active in 2014, and their visibility in six biomedical and multidisciplinary databases are described. Of these databases, Scopus and Ibecs provide the best coverage of these journals, and Medline and WoS the worst. The discipline best represented is medicine, followed by psychology, nursing and pharmacy. Among the observed characteristics, there were an absence of journals published exclusively on paper and the presence of journals published in English or bilingual Spanish-English and with open access. The article includes the journal list, which can be a reference tool for researchers selecting target journals for publication, for publishers in the health sciences areas and for information scientists for use in their database management tasks or in advising other professionals.