Scimago Journal & Country Rank

Opcionopen access

Discontinued in Scopus as of 2020

Country

Venezuela

Universities and research institutions in Venezuela
Media Ranking in Venezuela

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Universidad del Zulia

Universidad del Zulia in Scimago Institutions Rankings

H-Index

22

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

10121587

Coverage

2008-2020

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

revistaopcion@gmail.com

Scope

La Revista OPCIÓN es una publicación auspiciada por el Departamento de Ciencias Humanas y por la División de Investigación da la Facultad Experimental de Ciencias de la Universidad del Zulia. Aparece tres veces al año en los meses de abril, agosto y diciembre de cada año. Es una publicación de ciencias sociales y humanas, con énfasis en antropología, ciencias de la comunicación y de la información, filosofía, linguística y semiótica, problemas del desarrollo, la Ciencia y la tecnología. El Comité Editorial podá decidir la ampliación de sus áreas temáticas en las ciencias sociales, según la demanda que surja al respecto. Es financiada por el Consejo de Desarrollo, Científico, Humanístico y Tecnológico (CONDES). La Revista OPCIÓN publica trabajos originales con avances o resultados de investigacion ; revisiones es español, francés, portugués, italiono o inglés, reseñas y resúmenes de investigación culminadas o de publiaciones recientes, ensayos , comunicaciones rápidas, cartas al editor, notas técnicas, noticas, recensiones, documentos, así como entrevistas. Todos referidos a las áreas que publica la revista. Sus objetivos son: 1 Estimular la investigación en las áreas de las Ciencias Humanas y Sociales y contribuir con el progreso científico de las mismas, mediante la divulgación de resultados de las investigaciones en esos campos del saber. 2 Constituirse en un espacio editoral donde puedan confrontarse y discutirse las más avanzadas ideas en las áreas científicas mencionadas. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2009Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2010Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2011Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2012Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2013Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2014Q4
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2015Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2016Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2017Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2018Q3
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)2019Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2009Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2010Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2011Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2012Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2013Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2014Q4
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2015Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2016Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2017Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2018Q3
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2019Q3
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20090.101
20100.100
20110.104
20120.100
20130.100
20140.100
20150.139
20160.193
20170.199
20180.150
20190.202
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
200817
200927
201031
201117
201238
201319
201419
2015415
2016435
201779
2018788
20191114
2020267
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20080.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20090.118
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20100.045
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20110.067
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20120.043
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20130.018
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20140.038
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20150.065
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20160.069
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20170.063
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.242
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20190.601
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20200.319
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20080.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20090.118
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20100.045
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20110.067
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20120.013
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20130.012
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20140.054
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20150.079
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20160.055
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20170.063
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.242
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20190.720
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20200.341
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20080.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20090.118
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20100.045
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20110.034
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20120.021
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20130.018
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20140.070
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20150.105
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20160.051
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20170.060
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.333
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20190.946
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20200.336
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20080
Self Cites20091
Self Cites20100
Self Cites20110
Self Cites20120
Self Cites20130
Self Cites20140
Self Cites20155
Self Cites201610
Self Cites201719
Self Cites201851
Self Cites2019202
Self Cites202043
Total Cites20080
Total Cites20092
Total Cites20102
Total Cites20115
Total Cites20121
Total Cites20131
Total Cites20144
Total Cites20156
Total Cites201625
Total Cites201755
Total Cites2018225
Total Cites2019938
Total Cites2020676
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20080
External Cites per document20090.059
External Cites per document20100.045
External Cites per document20110.067
External Cites per document20120.013
External Cites per document20130.012
External Cites per document20140.054
External Cites per document20150.013
External Cites per document20160.033
External Cites per document20170.041
External Cites per document20180.187
External Cites per document20190.565
External Cites per document20200.320
Cites per document20080.000
Cites per document20090.118
Cites per document20100.045
Cites per document20110.067
Cites per document20120.013
Cites per document20130.012
Cites per document20140.054
Cites per document20150.079
Cites per document20160.055
Cites per document20170.063
Cites per document20180.242
Cites per document20190.720
Cites per document20200.341
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
20080.00
20090.00
20100.00
20110.00
20127.89
20130.00
20145.26
20153.61
20165.29
201710.13
201811.17
201914.09
202010.11
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20080
Non-citable documents20090
Non-citable documents20101
Non-citable documents20114
Non-citable documents20126
Non-citable documents20137
Non-citable documents20146
Non-citable documents20155
Non-citable documents201611
Non-citable documents201719
Non-citable documents201821
Non-citable documents201916
Non-citable documents20208
Citable documents20080
Citable documents200917
Citable documents201043
Citable documents201171
Citable documents201269
Citable documents201379
Citable documents201468
Citable documents201571
Citable documents2016442
Citable documents2017850
Citable documents2018908
Citable documents20191286
Citable documents20201973
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20080
Uncited documents200916
Uncited documents201042
Uncited documents201170
Uncited documents201274
Uncited documents201385
Uncited documents201470
Uncited documents201571
Uncited documents2016429
Uncited documents2017821
Uncited documents2018796
Uncited documents20191023
Uncited documents20201686
Cited documents20080
Cited documents20091
Cited documents20102
Cited documents20115
Cited documents20121
Cited documents20131
Cited documents20144
Cited documents20155
Cited documents201624
Cited documents201748
Cited documents2018133
Cited documents2019279
Cited documents2020295
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
200870.00
200962.79
201074.51
201154.55
201271.01
201357.14
201428.57
201558.99
201662.85
201753.66
201855.57
201956.72
202061.84
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20080
Overton20090
Overton20100
Overton20110
Overton20120
Overton20130
Overton20140
Overton20150
Overton20160
Overton20170
Overton20180
Overton20190
Overton20200
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG2018225
SDG2019291
SDG202067
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