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Francisco González-Sala, Julia Osca-Lluch, Franciso Tortosa Gil, María Peñaranda Ortega

This paper aims to determine the existence of differential characteristics between monographic special issues and regular non-monographic issues published by psychology journals according to different bibliometric indicators. The materials studied consisted of a total of 1120 articles published in 10 Ibero-American psychology journals included in the JCRs from 2013 to 2015. The number of monographic articles was 286 and the non-monographic works were 834. The results indicate that the articles published in monographic special issue journal receive a higher number of citations and that their publication times are shorter. A greater presence of journal committee members as authors of the papers in monographic special issues was also observed, and the number of authors per paper was lower compared to articles published in non-monographs. As a conclusion, publishing papers in monographic special issues versus non-monographic in the reviewed journals has some advantages for both journals and authors, such as greater international visibility and shorter publication times.

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Year of publication 2017
Journal Scientometrics
DOI DOI 10.1007/s11192-017-2372-4
Reference Francisco González-Sala, Julia Osca-Lluch, Franciso Tortosa Gil, María Peñaranda Ortega (), . Scientometrics, 112, p. 1069
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