Latin America & the Caribbean Peer-Reviewed Journals on Business & Management

1. KettyRodríguezCasillas, Ph.D Business Library, Library System University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras Campus Date: miércoles 19 de octubre 2011 Hour: 1:00p.m. Session VIII  Reunión de la Agrupación de Directores de Centros de Información  Latinoamericanos de CLADEAHotel Radisson, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 19 – 22  octubre 2011 Latin America & the Caribbean Peer-Reviewed Journals on Business & Management

2. Origins of the study • A professor from the School of Business at the University of Puerto Rico, requested a list of peer-reviewed business journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as possible outlet for faculty publishing. • The librarian decided to prepare a list of peer- reviewed journals on business & management published in LAC which leads to this study

3. Methodology • The population for this study consisted of all the journals published in LAC obtained from a source bibliography. • The source bibliography was compiled by searching the online public access catalogue, databases, and printed lists of journals from various libraries at the UPR, Río Piedras Campus. • From a population of 1,143 business journals from LAC a sample of 504 was drawn for the study. • The conceptual analysis methodology was used in the study

4. Titles included in the source bibliography(population of 1, 143 journals titles)

5. Composition of the journal population (n=1,143)

6. Criteria for Sample Selection • The titles must be active (still published) • The titles must have an ISSN number • The titles must belong to the subject area of business & management • The titles should be published in Latin America or the Caribbean, but titles with emphasis on developing countries published elsewhere were also considered.

7. Sample Composition

8. Disciplines in the sample from the Latindex list (n=344)

9. The Conceptual Analysis Methodology: How it works? • This methodology works by identifying a specific concept and records its frequency of appearance in a selected sample. As the analysis progresses, the sample is selectively reduced until obtaining the desire product. • The concept identified in this study was Peer-reviewed journal

10. Weakness of the study • The sample was not randomely selected • Each source bibliography title organizes its titles differently • The SALALM list organizes titles under broad subject areas • Latindex list organizes titles under various subdisciplines • The researcher decided the disciplines included in the study • Thirteen peer- reviewed titles from non LAC countries were included. The countries were: Great Britain, United States, Portugal, and Spain

11. Applying the conceptual analysis to the sample • To verify if indeed the title was peer-reviewed, all titles from the sample were searched by ISSN in two databases: Latindex Database (catalogue section), and Ulrich’s Web database. • All titles that met the criteria of “Peer-reviewed ” were included into a master list indicating its source of origin. Other details were recorded as well. • The master list was analyzed and further reduced

12. Sample analysis (n=504)

13. Total peer-reviewed titles analysis

14. Results of the study • A list of 42 LAC peer-reviewed journals titles on business & management was compiled. • From the country ranking by the number of peer- reviewed journals analyses Brazil is Ranks a the leading country with 12 peer-reviewed journals published.

15. Country ranking by the number of peer-reviewed journals published

16. Conclusions • Brasil ranks number 1 with the most peer-reviewed published (12), followed by Colombia with (8) and Venezuela with(7). • Puerto Rico, Perú, and Nicaragua share the last position with only one peer-reviewed journal title published each.

17. Conclusions (cont) • An analysis of the population of 1,143 journals used in the study shows very little overlapping among sources, (< 5%). • There is a large number of diverse journals titles . The implication of this statement is that business literature is scattered rather than cluster into core journal titles. • A high level of overlapping was found within the Latindex Database. This is due to Latindex’s practice of assigning multiple subjects to a single journal title. • It was found that the same title was listed under as many as seven different subject areas. This practice leads to a high level of duplication.

18. Conclusions (cont.) • There was a total of 122 duplicates, of which only16 titles belong to the SALALM list and 106 were duplicates from the Latindex List. • The analysis of the sample showed that the majority of titles (308) were non-peer-reviewed (more than half of the titles).

19. Conclusions (cont.) • The Latindex Database was the most useful source to carry out this study. This database consists of two sections: 1. A directory, which lists every journal title regardless of its quality . A title is transferred to the catalogue if it complies with at least 15 basic criteria out of thirty-three criteria of quality, however peer-reviewed is not part of the basic criteria. 2. Catalogue- This sections lists journals which had met the 15 basic criteria of which peer-reviewed is not part, thus the process of determining the peer-reviewed status of each title was tedious and cumbersome.

20. Conclusions (cont.) The inclusion of a title in the catalogue does not automatically mean that the title is peer-reviewed. It only means that the journal met the basic criteria.

21. The End Thanks for your attention!! • Note: I have the list of LAC peer-reviewed journals, if anyone wants a copy please contact me via email. • Further information via e-mail at: ketty.rodriguez1@upr.edu caketty2922@yahoo.com