Assessing quality of domestic scientific journals in geographically oriented disciplines: scientists’ judgements versus citations

Spanish scientific journals on geology were analysed, none of them covered as a source by the Science Citation Index (SCI). We searched the SCI, through the Web-of-Science, for citations received by articles published in these journals in 1995 and 1996. The term-impact of journals has been calculated, within two- and three-year citation windows. The effect of including citations from the domestic journals was considered, and a sample of 189...