[Commlist] CFP: Alternative Metrics and Open Science in Latin America

CFP: Alternative Metrics and Open Science in Latin America
Transinformação Journal (Q2 SJR)

We are facing strong transformations towards scientific communication 
and the geography of science. Social media and other digital 
environments have been each day more used by researchers and 
institutions to promote their researches to society, modifying the way 
through which the social impact of the scientific production is 
measured. New opportunities and a series of challenges impose to 
peripheral countries, considering that the coverage and data quality of 
the alternative metrics don´t use to be compatible with the dynamics of 
scientific communication developed in this region. At the same time, 
Open Science grows in Latin America, as an answer to balance the 
inequalities in the circulation of science. Important institutions have 
been decisive in the spreading of a kind of a Latin-American science 
more open, transparent, reproducible and responsible to the region. 
Scielo, Redalyc, Doaj, Latindex are examples of institutions that, along 
with several initiatives to the region, as the Declaration of Panama, 
are in the front line of the development of the science on the 
continent. Towards this panorama of great transformations to the 
Latin-American science, the call to the special issue of Transinformação 
journal  (Q2 SJR) oriented to researchers of Latin America and the 
Caribbean, seeking to explore topics related to the improvements of 
researches about altmetrics and Open Science in the Latin-American context.
Some of the topics expected to this edition, even when it won´t be 
restricted to them, are:
• Data coverage in Latin America
• Open Science in Latin America
• Alternative Metrics (altmetrics) in Latin America
• Circulation of Latin American Science
• Public and Scientific Politics in Latin America
• Bibliometric Studies and global mapping on scientific production
• Partnership Construction of international researches in Latin America

Comparative studies focused on two or more Latin-American countries will 
be welcome. The deadline to submit the papers will be until* January 
31th of 2019 *and the edition will be released in September of the same 
year. Transinformação journal doesn´t charge a submission or publication 
tax and will also be available for open access. 10 papers will be 
published in this edition and we will accept submissions in *Portuguese, 
Spanish and English*. We remind you that Transinformação journal only 
accepts papers written by 4 authors and postgraduate students may only 
submit their works along with doctors.

*The following information must be included in the cover of the papers: 
“thematic edition about Alternative Metrics in Latin America”. *To 
submit and check other information, 
access:http://www.scielo.br/revistas/tinf/iinstruc.htm

For more information about Alternative Metrics and Open Science in Latin 
America Conference, held in Niterói (Brazil) in November of 2018: 
www.latmetrics.com <http://www.latmetrics.com/>
Regards,




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