History of the Journal Educacion Fisica y Ciencia: bibliometric approach

Abstract

The aim was to carry out an historic-bibliometric analysis of Educacion Fisica y Ciencia during the period 1995-2019, focused on productivity, topics and collaborations aspects. Thus, all documents published in the journal were accessed, compiling their bibliographic information in the Endnote X9 program, together with their field of knowledge, number of authors, their affiliation and country. Data was exported to Excel 2019 program for its statistical analysis. Single-and co-authored articles, the mean of authors/article, and the percentage of collaboration were also calculated. There were found 281 documents, published mainly during the period 2015-2019. Sociology was the most represented field of science (28,5%). The period 2015-2019 showed a significant increase in the amount of authors, institutions, countries and percentage of collaboration. In conclusion, Educacion Fisica y Ciencia has gone through two stages. First stage (1995-2014) was characterized by an irregular publication, mainly produced by the UNLP and reflecting the social and political changes occurred in the UNLP and the Higher Education in Argentina. In the second stage (2015-2019) there was an editorial opening, leading to the growth of the journal, as well as the improvement of its visibility and the increase of collaborations.