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Despite its growth, as shown by López-López (2015), scientific output in Psychology in Iberoamerica, especially in Latin America, is still marginal and lacks the impact that could be expected from the amount of effort and ...

The growth in production and diffusion of knowledge worldwide has been joined by a fortunate growth in impact measurement systems (Arencibia Jorge & de Moya Anegón, 2008; Guerrero Bote, Olmeda-Gómez, & de Moya-Anegón, ...

It has been long shown by Merton and other sociologists, philosophers and science historians that scientific communities can be subject to similar analyses to those applied to other communities. Moreover, these processes ...

In recent times, there has been an increase in the frequency with which reports, complaints, and other discussions about the authorship of articles or the unrecognized use of document contents by other authors (practice ...

As mentioned in the previous editorial (López-López, 2015), Suber’s (2015) book is a significant contribution that we can use to clarify the limits and the scope of Open Access (OA), and it is also helpful in explaining ...

In his six-volume “The University, studies on its origins, dynamics and trends” [“La Universidad estudios sobre sus orígenes Dinámicas y tendencias”], Borrero (2008) states that interdisciplinariety can be understood in ...

Fifteen years ago, when I founded Universitas Psychologica: Panamerican Journal of Psychology, I never imagined the countless transformations we would experience. Throughout these years, we have gone from 50% of institutional ...

Recently, Redalyc shared the first edition of Peter Sauber’s book, which was first edited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and translated by Remedios Melero, of the Redalyc Scientific Committee. This book clears ...

Generally speaking, the measurement of products, researchers, or groups, is a complex process that may give rise to tensions, especially when considering that these measurements have economic and institutional implications. The ...