LAMJOL Newsletter

LAMJOL Newsletter
L at in Amer ic a Jour na ls On line
No. 2 August 2014
Journals on LAMJOL
Since August 2012 there have been 8 new journals added to
LAMJOL. There are now 21 journals on the site, including our first
two El Salvadorian journals! Welcome to LAMJOL to the following
new journals:
Cultura de Paz (Nicaragua)
La Revista de Derecho (Honduras)
Paradigma: Revista de Investigación Educativa (Honduras)
REICE: Revista Electrónica de Investigación en Ciencias Económicas
(Nicaragua)
Revista de Derecho (Nicaragua)
Revista de Museología “Kóot” (El Salvador)
Revista Perspectivas del Desarrollo (Honduras)
Revista Policía y Seguridad Pública (El Salvador)
Fig. 2: Visitors to LAMJOL by month - August 2012 to July 2014
Please let us know if you have any recommendations for new
journals to be added to the site.
Visitors to LAMJOL
Fig. 1 shows visitors on a daily basis. The highest number of visitors
peaked at 270 on Thursday 29th August 2013. The small-scale
variations in the graph reflect the working week with a decline in
usage over the weekends. There are also drops in visitor numbers
in December to January each year. There have been 70,211 visits
to the site between August 2012 and July 2014. As shown in Fig. 2,
this number has gradually risen over the last two years, and reached
4,000 in a month for the first time in June 2014.
As shown in Fig. 3, there was a significant increase in downloads
in 2013/14. This peaked at over 80,000 in April to June 2014. The
total number of downloads between July 2012 and June 2014 was
459,437. This represents an average of over 6.5 article downloads
per visit.
Fig. 3: Full text downloads on LAMJOL - July 2012 to June 2014
Google Analytics shows that there were visits from 118 countries.
The distribution of these visitors is shown in Fig. 4. It is noticeable
that the most frequent visitors are from the Americas or Spain.
Fig. 5 shows the 15 most frequent visiting countries. At the top
is Mexico with 11,990 visits, closely followed by Nicaragua with
11,676. Colombia is in third place with 6,843 visits and Honduras
fourth with 5,463. El Salvador had 1,261 visits during the period, but
we expect this to increase now that we have El Salvador journals on
the website.
Visitors from El Salvador represent the most active users, spending
on average over five minutes on the site and visiting 5.88 pages,
followed by Honduras with 2:33 minutes per visit and 3.86 pages,
and Nicaragua wih 2:18 minutes and 2.94 pages.
Fig. 1: Visitors to LAMJOL August 2012 to July 2014
Fig. 4: Global distribution of visitors to LAMJOL August 2012 to July
2014
Fig. 7: Central American visitors to LAMJOL
Fig. 5: Visitors to LAMJOL - top 15 countries
Fig. 6: Visitors to LAMJOL - top 10 cities
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Fig. 6 shows the top ten cities to visit LAMJOL. The most frequent
is Managua, Nicaragua with 8,497 visits, followed by Tegucigalpa,
Honduras with 4,513. Third is Guatemala City with 2,957.
Fig. 7 shows the distribution of visitors in Central America by
country, whilst Fig. 8 shows visitors in Central America in each city/
town.
Number of article views
Fig. 9 shows number of full text downloads per journal between
July 2012 and June 2014. The journals with the highest number of
downloads were Ciencia e Interculturalidad (53,199), Wani (53,075),
Revista de Derecho (51,786) and Nexo Revista Cientifica (50,939).
Fig. 8: LAMJOL visitors from Central American cities and towns
In Fig. 10 we also take into account the number of articles per
journal, and the length of time each journal has been on LAMJOL.
The barchart shows full text downloads per article per month. FHIA
Programa de Hortalizas only has one issue, but has had 10,075
downloads for its 10 articles since July 2013, at 31.5 per month. In
second place is Synapsis, which has had 11,828 downloads for 14
articles at 26.4 per month. In third place is Nexo Revista Cientifica,
which has had 43,987 downloads of 55 articles at 25.3 per month,
followed by Cieba with 16,358 downloads of articles at 24.9 per
month.
Top ten articles viewed from July 2012 to June 2014
Suheid Azucena Macías Cano (2001)
La victima en el proceso penal nicaragüense
Revista de Derecho
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/derecho.v0i1.738
D Escorcia, D Hernández, M Sánchez, M Benevente (2009)
Diseño y montaje de una planta piloto para la extracción de quitina y proteínas
Nexo Revista Científica
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v22i2.42
Danilo Salamanca (2012)
Las palabras del miskito: EI diccionario Español-Miskito, Miskito-Español,
compilado por Dionisio Melgara
Wani
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/wani.v65i0.881
Isabel Lackwood Bustillo, Zoraida Ruiz Rivera, Verónica Valdivia (2008)
Factores que influyen en el proceso de Enseñanza aprendizaje en el área
español como segunda lengua, en quinto y sexto grado en la modalidad
de multigrado en la escuela Bilingüe: “Enmanuel”. Año 2007 – 2008, Rosita,
RAAN.
Ciencia e Interculturalidad
http://www.lamjol.info/index.php/RCI/article/view/575/400
Rafael Enrique Corrales Andino (2009)
Catalogo de firmas espectrales de especies florales, en la Ciudad Universitaria,
Tegucigalpa, Fase 1
Ciencias Espaciales
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/ce.v1i1.610
José María Gómez Vargas, Abelino Pitty, José María Miselem (2006)
Efecto del pH del Agua en la Efectividad de los Herbicidas Glifosato, Fluazifopp-butil y Bentazon
Ceiba
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/ceiba.v47i1-2.443
A Martinez Gómez, I Sánchez Bazán, A Osorio-Mirón, et al. (2011)
Caracterización reológica de soluciones azucaradas para el proceso de
evaporación-cristalización
Nexo Revista Científica
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/nexo.v24i1.595
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María Estela Vargas Tess, Nalia Rosales Cunningham, et al. (2008)
La desintegración familiar y el aprendizaje en la niñez de iv grado
Ciencia e Interculturalidad
http://www.lamjol.info/index.php/RCI/article/view/584/409
Juan Bautista Arríen Somarriba (2002)
El procedimiento administrativo y el procedimiento contencioso administrativo en Nicaragua
Revista de Derecho
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/derecho.v0i2.925
Javier Ruiz (2009)
Ecología de dispersión y reclutamiento de bosques húmedos tropicales
Wani
http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/wani.v59i0.256
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Fig. 8: Total article views per journal - 21 August 2010 to 30 June 2012
Fig. 9: Full text downloads per journal, July 2012 to June 2014
Fig. 9: Average article views per journal - 21 August 2010 to 30 June 2012
Fig. 10: Full text downloads per article per month, July 2012 to June 2014
Site access by mobile phone
Fig. 11 shows that the number of visitors using mobile devices has
risen significantly since 2012 as the number of mobile users has
increased worldwide.
A total of 5,172 visitors used mobile devices in the last two years 3,850 using mobile phones and 1,322 using tablets. The most used
phone was the Apple iPhone (729) and the most popular tablet
was the Apple iPad (936). The number of mobile users to LAMJOL
peaked at 438 visitors in July 2014.
Fig. 11: Visits to LAMJOL from mobile devices August 2012 - July 2014
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Fig. 12: LAMJOL journals with ISSNs and Online ISSNs
Fig. 13: LAMJOL journals with Editorial Board affiliations
eISSNs on LAMJOL
Workshops in Honduras and Nicaragua
It is now a recognised international standard for all journals to
have an Online ISSN (e-ISSN) as well as a print ISSN. e-ISSNs help
indexes, librarians and other users to distinguish between the
print and online versions of a journal. As Fig. 12 shows, currently
only 3 journals on LAMJOL have an e-ISSN.
In March, a two day workshop was run at the Escuela Agricola
Panamericana for journal editors in Honduras. It was facilitated by
Dr. Raúl Hernán Zelaya Sabillón. Fig. 14 is a group photo from the
workshop and Fig. 15 shows the participants working on LAMJOL.
Editors are advised to register for an Online ISSN at the ISSN
International Centre website:
http://www.issn.org/services/requesting-an-issn/
There are 3 journals on LAMJOL which do not yet have print ISSNs.
Editors of these journals are advised to apply for an ISSN as soon
as possible, as this affects both the international reputation and
discoverability of the journal.
In June a workshop run in CENIDA, Managua, Nicaragua was
facilitated by Saray Córdoba and Jorge Polanco from the National
University of Costa Rica. The workshop was in two parts, one part
focussing on the LAMJOL OJS system and the second on journal
quality and the Latindex portal. Fig. 16 shows the participants at the
workshops.
Editorial Board affiliations
It’s very important for journals to list the institutional affiliations
of all editorial board members to demonstrate the quality and
transparency of their peer review process to an international
audience.
As shown on Fig. 13, only 9 journals currently list full affiliations.
The other 11 journals on LAMJOL do not provide affiliations. So
please provide us with this information as soon as convenient and
we will add this to the website.
Fig. 16: Nicaragua workshop participants at CENIDA
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Fig. 14: Participants of the Honduras workshop
Fig. 15: Honduras workshop on the OJS system
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Digital Object Identifiers
Fig. 17 illustrates that the resolution of the LAMJOL DOIs
continues to grow and there were spikes in activity in November
and April. ‘Resolutions’ refers to the number of times a user has
clicked on a hyperlinked DOI in a reference list in order to be
taken to the full text of an article listed on LAMJOL.
Editors are requested to include the DOIs for all references in their
articles in order to enhance the user experience, but also to fulfil
the agreement we have with CrossRef. For instructions on how to
do this, please contact Sioux Cumming ([email protected]).
Fig. 17: DOI Resolutions on LAMJOL
Other JOL News
Open Access logo
Article views up to June 2013:
We will soon be adding the Open Access logo (below) to the
homepage of all open access journals on LAMJOL. This is the
universally known logo that signifies Full Text Open Access content:
BanglaJOL (www.banglajol.info) has had 11,672,813 article views.
NepJOL (www.nepjol.info) has had 6,641,954 article views.
MongoliaJOL (www.mongoliajol.info) has had 92,804 article views.
SLJOL (www.sljol.info) has had 4,311,841article views.
Latin America Journals Online (LAMJOL)
LAMJOL contains journals from Honduras, Nicaragua and El
Salvador at this time.
www.lamjol.info
About the Journals Online
The Journals Online (JOL) project provides advice to journals
wishing to publish online, including resource guides and links
to suitable technologies and hosting organisations. Focusing
on a system developed for groups of journals to publish on
community websites, the JOLs provide a cost-effective and
secure forum for online journals, which gives them greatest
online visibility and discovery.
For more information on the JOLs, see ‘About Journals Online’.
Journals Online Newsletters
The Journals Online Newsletters are published twice annually
and feature information on usage including total downloads,
regional downloads and most viewed articles.
The newsletters are available for download on the ‘JOLs
Newsletters’ page.
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