Providing service without altering the ecological balance of knowledge: the sustainability of Ibero-American nursing journals - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2021;74(2):e740201
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167.2021740201
Publication date: 06-16-2021
When talking about sustainability from the economy or ecology, we are referring to the ability to produce goods and services without depleting resources or harming the environment. If we apply the concept to the field of scientific publication, sustainability could refer to the possibility of maintaining an infrastructure of publications capable of disseminating the knowledge produced by an area of knowledge, with independent and autonomous editorial resources and without harming the natural environment of the discipline it represents. Scientific publication is a good in itself, insofar as it contributes to the development of science, but in order to be sustainable there must be a balance in its ecological, economic and social dimension(). From here, the question arises: does Ibero-American nursing have a support for sustainable scientific publication? In order to give an answer that is as objective as possible, it is advisable to support it with data.
Ibero-American nursing has a base of periodical publications that has been consolidated in recent decades. If we stick to the information provided by Cuiden, the platform that incorporates most of the Ibero-American nursing production(), since the beginning of the 1990s, 157 journals (REHIC Catalog) can be identified, most of them produced in Spain (47 %) and in Brazil (30%) But only a third of them registered bibliometric impact in 2019 according to Cuiden Citación(). The nursing journals of the Ibero-American Scientific Space (ECI) have published an average of just over 5,000 documents per year in the past decade, showing signs of decline in the past five years. In the same year, just over 85% of ECI’s nursing production was concentrated between Brazil and Spain, thus exercising a clear leadership position in the region. The publishing environment in both countries is substantially different. In Brazil, nursing journals are produced mainly in university contexts, while in Spain, publications by scientific societies and professional bodies are more frequent. Both models have in common the fact that they advocate open access, in contrast to the dominant one in the Anglo-Saxon context, highly commercialized by solid publishers.
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When talking about sustainability from the economy or ecology, we are referring to the ability to produce goods and services without depleting resources or harming the environment. If we apply the concept to the field of scientific publication, sustainability could refer to the possibility of maintaining an infrastructure of publications capable of disseminating the knowledge produced by an area of knowledge, with independent and autonomous editorial resources and without harming the natural environment of the discipline it represents. Scientific publication is a good in itself, insofar as it contributes to the development of science, but in order to be sustainable there must be a balance in its ecological, economic and social dimension(). From here, the question arises: does Ibero-American nursing have a support for sustainable scientific publication? In order to give an answer that is as objective as possible, it is advisable to support it with data.
Ibero-American nursing has a base of periodical publications that has been consolidated in recent decades. If we stick to the information provided by Cuiden, the platform that incorporates most of the Ibero-American nursing production(), since the beginning of the 1990s, 157 journals (REHIC Catalog) can be identified, most of them produced in Spain (47 %) and in Brazil (30%) But only a third of them registered bibliometric impact in 2019 according to Cuiden Citación(). The nursing journals of the Ibero-American Scientific Space (ECI) have published an average of just over 5,000 documents per year in the past decade, showing signs of decline in the past five years. In the same year, just over 85% of ECI’s nursing production was concentrated between Brazil and Spain, thus exercising a clear leadership position in the region. The publishing environment in both countries is substantially different. In Brazil, nursing journals are produced mainly in university contexts, while in Spain, publications by scientific societies and professional bodies are more frequent. Both models have in common the fact that they advocate open access, in contrast to the dominant one in the Anglo-Saxon context, highly commercialized by solid publishers.
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