El Factor d’Impacte a les revistes científiques: estat de la qüestió

In this work a study on the Impact Factor (FI) is carried out in scientific journals with the aim of analyzing the state of the question presented by this indicator, used for the evaluation of scientific production . The work consists in studying the advantages and disadvantages of the FI, through bibliographic revisions, and which alternative indicators have been implemented due to the detected inconveniences. In addition, a practical case of FI evaluation has also been carried out with the Journal Citations Reports tool (JCR) through the Agronomy and Telecommunications categories, which has analyzed 83 agronomic magazines and 82 telecommunication reviews. Based on this theoretical-practical study, and through interviews with professionals involved with bibliometry, we investigated which bibliographic metrics are used in the University of Barcelona (UB), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) , at the University of Girona (Udg), and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and how the FI affects the publication of articles by its research staff. Finally, we analyzed the main alternative metrics currently available