El autor de correspondencia en estudios métricos de la información: un análisis de la coautorí­a en Journal of informetrics

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Carla Mara Hilário
Daniel Martínez-Ávila
Maria Cláudia Cabrini Grácio

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El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar las caracterí­sticas del autor de correspondencia (AC) en el área de los estudios métricos de la información. Más especí­ficamente, se analiza el papel del AC en los artí­culos publicados en coautorí­a en Journal of informetrics .JOI) en 2016 desde dos perspectivas: i) las caracterí­sticas bibliométricas del AC; ii) el entendimiento del papel del AC por parte de los autores listados en los trabajos. Para alcanzar el objetivo, el análisis se realizó en dos etapas: 1) identificación del porcentaje de participación en las etapas fundamentales del desarrollo de la investigación y el í­ndice h de los AC por tipo de autorí­a, categorizando las contribuciones de los autores utilizando la información de los formularios de enví­o de JOI; 2) evaluación cualitativa del papel del AC según el propio entendimiento de los autores de los artí­culos analizados, utilizando como base las respuestas de un cuestionario enviado a los autores (Hilário, 2020). Los resultados del análisis incluyen los indicadores bibliométricos relacionados con el AC por tipo de autorí­a (doble, triple, cuádruple o más): posición del AC en la lí­nea de autorí­a; porcentaje total de contribución del AC en las principales fases del desarrollo de la investigación; í­ndice h; así­ como el entendimiento de los 30 autores que respondieron el cuestionario en relación al papel del autor de correspondencia en el desarrollo de una investigación.

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Hilário, C. M., Martínez-Ávila, D., & Cabrini Grácio, M. C. (2020). El autor de correspondencia en estudios métricos de la información: un análisis de la coautorí­a en Journal of informetrics. Palabra Clave (La Plata), 10(1), e104. https://doi.org/10.24215/18539912e104
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Dossier Estudios métricos de la información: abordajes teóricos, metodológicos y empíricos

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