http://dx.doi.org/10.24016/2022.v8.266
EDITORIAL
Interacciones: Journal of Family, Clinical and Health Psychology
Interacciones: Revista de Psicología
Familiar, Clínica y de la Salud
David Villarreal-Zegarra 1*, Anthony Copez-Lonzoy 2, Jeff Huarcaya-Victoria 3, 4,
Renzo Rivera 5, Nikol Mayo-Puchoc 1
1 Instituto
Peruano de Orientación Psicológica, Lima, Peru.
2 Unidad de
Investigación en Bibliometría, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Peru.
3 Departamento de Psiquiatría,
Unidad de Psiquiatría de Enlace, Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen,
Lima, Peru.
4 Escuela Profesional de
Medicina Humana - Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista, Filial Ica, Peru.
5 Universidad
Católica San Pablo, Arequipa, Peru.
* Correspondence: revistainteracciones@ipops.pe.
Received: March 02, 2022 | Accepted: March 26, 2022 | Published Online: March 26, 2022.
CITE IT AS:
Villarreal-Zegarra, D., Copez-Lonzoy, A., Huarcaya-Victoria,
J., Rivera, R., & Mayo-Puchoc, M. (2022). Interacciones: Journal of Family, Clinical and Health Psychology. Interacciones, 8, e266. http://dx.doi.org/10.24016/2022.v8.266
Interacciones is a scientific journal created in 2015, edited by
the Instituto Peruano de Orientación
Psicológica (IPOPS), and performs a robust
publication process, based on a double-blind article review. Interacciones aims to be a top journal in the discipline of
family psychology, clinical psychology, and health psychology; and has
developed a set of editorial strategies to achieve this. The objective of this
editorial is to share with the scientific community our editorial strategies
and to strengthen our commitment to being a journal with a global reach.
First, Interacciones seeks
to streamline the editorial processes. Therefore, the speed with which this
journal publishes an issue (periodicity) has increased over time (Villarreal
Huertas, 2016). Since it initially had a semiannual periodicity (2015-2016),
then became quarterly (2017-2020), and is currently continuous (2021 to date).
Continuous periodicity makes it possible to reduce publication time of a study
because as soon as an article is accepted it is published, and there is no need
to wait for the rest of the articles in an issue to be accepted. Thus, the
journal will promote a continuous reception of articles, benefiting both
authors and readers, in some highlights: 1) Decreased time for submission and
publication of articles, 2) low risk of outdate of research data at the time of
publication, 3) greater immediacy for the publication of the article, 4) major
visibility of the research, and 5) updated information for the users to read
and cite (Santana, 2019).
Second, the journal is committed to more open and free
science. Interacciones promotes within its policies
to attach as supplementary material pre-prints, databases, script or code to
perform the analyses, and any other material that allows helping replicability
of the study. In addition, the peer-review process has become more transparent,
as reviewers' comments and authors' responses are attached as supplementary
material. Sharing the peer-review process allows for greater scientific transparency
and greater confidence in it. Also, the journal does not charge for receiving,
reviewing, accepting, publishing, or translating the manuscripts it edits (Interacciones, 2022).
Third, our journal seeks to have a greater
international and global impact, which is why we have indexed its contents in a
large number of databases, repositories, and research catalogs, such as SciELO Peru, DOAJ, Latindex, Dialnet, Redalyc, Redib, Google Scholar, Base, Cross Ref, among others. The
impact of the articles published in the journal can also be measured in the
number of citations it receives in SCOPUS or Google Scholar. Interacciones has published between 2015-2021 a total of
123 articles (see Table 1), predominantly original research articles (n=86;
69.9%), from a total of 250 unique authors coming from different countries in
the Americas and Europe (see Figure 1). The impact of the articles published in
Interacciones is considerable. For instance, since
March 8, 2022, it was found that 32 of our articles have been cited in SCOPUS a
total of 88 times, and the number of citations this journal receives from
SCOPUS has increased annually. Furthermore, up to the same date, Google metrics
report a total of 737 citations (see Table 2).
Four, the journal aims to strengthen the visibility of
its published articles by prioritizing the review process for manuscripts
submitted in English. Although the journal accepts manuscripts in both Spanish
and English, the editorial team will give priority to studies in English.
Likewise, authors who submit studies in Spanish will have the option of a
no-cost translation in their accepted manuscripts into English. On the other
hand, in order to maximize the international scope of the journal, the subtitle
of the journal was officially changed from "Interacciones: Revista de Avances en Psicología" to "Interacciones: Journal of Family, Clinical and Health
Psychology." Thus, readers could more clearly identify the journal's lines
of research and maximize its scope and visibility.
Finally, an invitation is extended to the scientific
community to submit manuscripts. Interacciones will
continue maintaining their values and principles as a journal open access.
Table 1. Percentage distribution, by type, of the
documents referred to in the Interacciones, between
2015-2021.
|
Type of
article |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
Total |
% |
|
Research article |
4 |
6 |
11 |
16 |
17 |
19 |
13 |
86 |
69.92% |
|
Review article |
1 |
7 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
19 |
15.45% |
|
Letter to
editor |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
6.50% |
|
Book review* |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
4.88% |
|
Editorial |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1.63% |
|
Case studies |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0.81% |
|
Methodological articles |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0.81% |
|
Total |
12 |
14 |
18 |
18 |
21 |
24 |
16 |
123 |
100% |
*Interacciones does not currently receive this
type of documents.
Table 2. Statistics
of the number of articles cited, between 2015-2021.
|
|
Google Metrics |
Scopus |
|
Total
citations |
737 |
88 |
|
Citations
of different documents |
80 |
32 |
|
H5 index |
13 |
- |
|
Median of H5 |
19 |
- |
Note:
H5-Index = Indicates the number of h publications has been cited h times in the
last 5 years. H5-median = Indicates the average of the number of citations of
the articles which compose the H5-index. Adapted from Google Scholar Metrics
and Scopus (8 march of 2022) https://scholar.google.com.pe/citations?hl=es&user=mmF4IWYAAAAJ
Figure 1. World map of the authors by
countries that published in the journal (n=204).
Note: Adapted from Wisdom ai (8 march of 2022) https://www.wizdom.ai/journal/interacciones_revista_de_avances_en_psicologia/2411-5940
ORCID
David Villarreal-Zegarra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2222-4764
Anthony Copez-Lonzoy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4761-4272
Jeff Huarcaya-Victoria https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4525-9545
Renzo Rivera https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5897-9931
Nikol Mayo-Puchoc https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-7605
AUTHORS'
CONTRIBUTION
David Villarreal-Zegarra:
Conceptualization, Writing - Original Draft, Supervision, Acceptance of the
final version.
Anthony Copez-Lonzoy:
Writing - Review & Editing, Acceptance of the final version.
Jeff Huarcaya-Victoria:
Writing - Review & Editing, Acceptance of the final version.
Renzo Rivera: Writing -
Review & Editing, Acceptance of the final version.
Nikol Mayo-Puchoc: Investigation, Writing -
Original Draft, Visualization, Acceptance of the final version.
FUNDING
This editorial
was self-financed.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
All authors are
part of the Interacciones editorial team.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors
would like to thank all the authors, reviewers, publishers, editors, and
members of the editorial team of the journal.
REVIEW
PROCESS
This editorial
has not been peer-reviewed.
DATA
AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
No applicable.
DISCLAIMER
The authors are responsible for all
statements made in this article.
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Huertas, D. R. (2016). Optimizando procesos editoriales: Calidad, estabilidad y
visibilidad. Interacciones, 2(2), 89–90.