*Corresponding author: exio.chaparro@utm.edu.ec

Exio Isaac Chaparro-Martínez

Lelly María Useche-Castro

Felipe Rumbaut-León

Eneida María Quindemil-Torrijo

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ISSN 2477-9407

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47280/RevFacAgron(LUZ).v39.n4.09

Invited article

Associate editor: Dr. Jorge Vilchez-Perozo

University of Zulia, Faculty of Agronomy

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Keywords:

Bibliometric

Publication

Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía

Universidad del Zulia

Venezuela.

Metric analysis of the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad del Zulia (2011-2021)

Análisis métrico de la Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía de la

Universidad del Zulia (2011-2021)

Análise métrica da Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad del Zulia (2011-2021)

Facultad de Ciencias Humanísticas y Sociales, Universidad

Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador.

Departamento de Matemáticas y Estadística. Instituto de

Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador.

eceived: 02-05-2022

Accepted: 08-10-2022

Published: 25-11-2022

Abstract

The Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad del Zulia

(LUZ), is a publication of the Instituto de Investigaciones Agronómicas

de la Facultad de Agronomía, (LUZ) Venezuela. The digital content of the

journal is hosted on the web site https://produccioncienticaluz.org/index.

php/agronomia and is indexed in national and international databases.

The objective of this research is to analyze the editorial management

of the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía (LUZ) in the period 2011

to 2021 through a bibliometric analysis of authorship, production, and

collaboration, emphasizing the identication of the main research topics,

their relationship and the components that integrate them. A descriptive,

longitudinal, retrospective study of trend (analyzes changes over time) was

carried out using quantitative techniques. It is based on the theoretical and

methodological framework provided by information metric studies. Searches

were carried out in the Scopus database. Several computer programs were

used for data processing: VOSviewer, bibliometrix and Publish or Perish.

The journal has a total of 442 original papers, from 2010 to 2021, with a total

of 1375 authors, with an average production for the period of 40 articles per

year and an average of 4.43 authors per article.

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Resumen

La Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, de la Universidad del

Zulia (LUZ) es una publicación del Instituto de Investigaciones

Agronómicas de la Facultad de Agronomía (LUZ), Venezuela, está

indizada en bases de datos nacionales e internacionales. El objetivo

de esta investigación es analizar la gestión editorial de la Revista de

la Facultad de Agronomía (LUZ) en el periodo 2011 a 2021 usando el

análisis bibliométrico de autoría, producción y colaboración, haciendo

énfasis en la identicación de los principales temas de investigación,

su relación y los componentes que los integran. Se realizó un estudio

de alcance descriptivo, longitudinal de tendencia (analiza cambios a

través del tiempo) y retrospectivo, usando técnicas cuantitativas. Se

sustenta en el marco teórico y metodológico provisto por los estudios

métricos de la información. Las búsquedas se realizaron en la base

de datos Scopus. Se utilizaron varios programas informáticos para

el procesamiento de los datos: VOSviewer, bibliometrix y Publish

or Perish. La revista cuenta con un total de 442 trabajos originales,

desde del año 2011 hasta el 2021, con un total de 1375 autores, una

producción promedio para el período de 40 artículos por año y un

promedio de 4,43 autores por artículo.

Palabras clave: Bibliometría, publicaciones, Revista de la Facultad

de Agronomía, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela.

Resumo

A Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad del

Zulia (LUZ),) é uma publicação do Instituto de Pesquisa Agronômica

da Faculdade de Agronomia (LUZ), Venezuela. O conteúdo digital

da revista está hospedado no site https://produccioncienticaluz.org/

index.php/agronomia e está indexado em bases de dados nacionais e

internacionais. O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar a gestão editorial

da Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía (LUZ), no período de 2011

a 2021 por meio de uma análise bibliométrica de autoria, produção

e colaboração, enfatizando a identicação dos principais tópicos de

pesquisa, sua relação e os componentes que os integram. Foi realizado

um estudo descritivo, de tendência longitudinal (analisa mudanças

ao longo do tempo) e escopo retrospectivo, utilizando técnicas

quantitativas. Baseia-se no referencial teórico e metodológico

proporcionado pelos estudos métricos de informação. As buscas

foram realizadas na base de dados Scopus. Vários programas de

computador foram utilizados para o processamento dos dados:

VOSviewer, bibliometrix e Publish or Perish. A revista possui um

total de 442 trabalhos originais, de 2011 a 2021, com um total de

1375 autores, uma produção média para o período de 40 artigos por

ano e uma média de 4,43 autores por artigo.

Palavras-chave: Bibliometria, publicações, Revista de la Facultad de

Agronomía, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela.

Introduction

Publications in peer-reviewed and indexed journals is the most

expeditious way to demonstrate the results of scientic research

and thus promote the dissemination of scientic knowledge in all

subject areas (Capurro, 2015). Journals in agricultural sciences aim

to disseminate research in the eld of agronomy and related sciences

(Sangerman et al., 2015).

Agricultural science journals in Latin America have achieved

a prominent presence in international databases. From the study of

the articles published in them, it is possible to know the thematic

evolution of the research, so in this research an analysis of the main

bibliometric indicators of the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía

(LUZ) will be made, since it is a journal that has maintained for

many years the publication of scientic articles in the Venezuelan

agricultural sector.

The process of generating a scientic journal aims to inuence

the dissemination of the work of researchers from dierent regions

and countries (Baiget, 2020). In the case of Venezuela, the Revista de

la Facultad de Agronomía (LUZ) is a publication of the Instituto de

Investigaciones Agronómicas of the Facultad de Agronomía (LUZ),

published since 1968. The internationally recognized abbreviation is

Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ), is a scientic publication in digital format

with ISSN 0378-7818.

The journal publishes four issues per year, under a continuous

publication format. The digital content of the journal is hosted in the

Sistema de Servicios de Bibliotecas e Información (Serbiluz), of the

Universidad del Zulia https://produccioncienticaluz.org/index.php/

agronomia. It is also indexed in national and international databases:

Scopus and WoS, among others.

In Scimago, the set of journals is classied according to their

SJR and is divided into four equal groups, four quartiles (Q). Q1

comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 the

second highest values, Q3 the third highest values, and Q4 the lowest

values. In the case of Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ) has remained in Q4 in

all categories where it is analyzed, except for the year 2016 in the

Food Science Category where it ranked in Q3.

Based on the above, the following study was designed to analyze

the editorial management of the Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ) in the

period 2011 to 2021 through a bibliometric analysis of authorship

and production, emphasizing the identication of the main research

topics, their relationship and the components that make them.

Metric studies of information

Information metric studies have gained acceptance for their

usefulness in the description, evaluation and monitoring of scientic

activity and information ows in general. Among their main purposes

are to understand the dynamics of science, identify new research

fronts, characterize the intellectual structure of a knowledge domain

and its communication patterns, analyze thematic and collaborative

networks, evaluate research results, contribute to prospection and the

denition of scientic policies (Sánchez and Zacca, 2021).

Background

The antecedents considered are related to this work, from the

methodological and content point of view. Among the research

related to the bibliometric proposals proposed and carried out prior to

this research, the following can be mentioned:

Metric studies have been carried out in dierent regions of the

world, using dierent databases or data sets and various indicators

to analyze this dynamic (Nuño et al., 2022). In the Latin American

context, studies on scientic journals have been presented (Chaparro

& Maldonado, 2004), most of the studies have focused on the area of

animal and veterinary science (Hinojosa et al., 2020).

In journals in agricultural sciences, very specic bibliometric

analyzes have been carried out, such as the one performed to the

journal Zootecnia Tropical (Montilla, 2016), in the journal La Técnica

(Quindemil et al., 2017), in the journal Centro Agrícola (Paz et al.,

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2016) and the one performed for the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias

Agrícolas (Sangerman et al., 2015).

Duarte et al., (2021) studied the main international topics on

agricultural labor research using Scopus. The bibliometric review

allowed the identication of scientic communities (USA, France,

United Kingdom) that have conducted the most relevant research

related to labor in agriculture in the last 10 years.

A bibliometric review of work in agriculture was identied based

on articles indexed in Web of Science (Malanski et al., 2019). Other

areas that have been studied are: veterinary sciences (Rojas et al.,

2013) and agricultural sciences (Saavedra et al., 2002).

Methods

A descriptive (Hernández et al., 2018), longitudinal (analyses

changes over time) and retrospective study was conducted, using

quantitative techniques and supported by the theoretical and

methodological framework provided by information metric studies. A

bibliometric approach was adopted by applying quantitative methods

(indicators and mathematical models) to the scientic literature

published in Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ). The standard bibliometric

procedure consists of the steps scientic document collection,

processing, visualization and data analysis. The work was developed

considering this structure.

The following steps were carried out for the development of the

research:

Source of information

The searches were performed in the Scopus database, it has been

chosen for having to date, the highest coverage at the journal level

(Guerrero-Bote et al., 2021) has been used in scientometric studies

(Baas et al., 2020) and for its metadata quality and annual growth of

indexed journals (Leydesdor et al., 2010).

Search strategy

Search in the ISSN eld of the journal: 0378-7818

Timing

The search was carried out limiting the analysis to the articles

included in this source for the years 2011-2021.

Documentary typology

Scientic articles

Data collection

The data collected by Scopus are presented, it should be noted

that there may be some dierences with what is reected on the

journal’s website, in all cases it surely corresponds to the reality of

the scientic production of Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ).

Data analysis

Once the numerical data were collected, they were transferred to a

matrix, which was analyzed using statistical procedures. Description

of trends, contrast of groups or relationship between variables.

Analysis programs

Several computer programs were used for data processing (Bales

et al., 2020), such as VOSviewer (Van Eck and Waltman, 2018),

bibliometrix (Aria and Cuccurullo, 2017) and Publish or Perish

8.2.3944.8118 (Harzing, 2007).

Presentation of results

The presentation format is relatively standard, such as tables,

gures, and statistical models.

Scope of the study

Unidimensional indicators were analyzed: production by years,

author production and productivity by keywords. Impact indicators

were also used to determine the most cited authors and the most cited

publications. Multidimensional indicators were also applied: author

collaboration and co-occurrence of keywords.

Discussion

General characteristics of the Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ)

This study provides evidence of the editorial management in the

Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ). The total number of original papers, the

number of papers per year and the average for the period considered

and the chronological distribution of the total number of original

papers were calculated based on these data. The journal has a total of

442 original papers, with an average production for the period of 40

articles per year.

The general characteristics of Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ) in the

Scopus search using the programs Publish or Perish 8.2.3944.8118,

Bibliometrix are as follows:

• Publication years: 2011-2021

• Citation years: 12 (2011-2021)

• Papers: 442

• Citations: 470

• Citations/year: 39.17 (acc1=22, acc2=3, acc5=0, acc10=0,

acc20=0)

• Citations/paper: 1.06

• Authors/paper: 4.43/4.0/4 (mean/median/mode)

• Age-weighted citation rate: 74.34 (sqrt=8.62), 22.02/author

• Hirsch h-index: 8 (a=7.34, m=0.67, 84 cites=17.9% coverage)

• Egghe g-index: 9 (g/h=1.13, 92 cites=19.6% coverage)

Average years from publication 6.46

• Average citations per documents 1,063

• References 9964

Document types

• Articles: 427

• Publisher: 3

• notes: 8

• review: 4

• Author: 1375

• Authors of single-authored documents: 15

• Authors of multi-authored documents: 1360

• Single-authored documents 15

• Authors per Document 3.11

• Co-Authors per Documents 4.44

• Collaboration Index 3.19

The details of the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía of the

Universidad del Zulia in Scopus are the following:

• Scopus coverage years: 2008 to present

• Publisher: Universidad del Zulia

• ISSN: 0378-7818 E-ISSN: 1690-9763

• Subject areas:

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Food Science.

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Agronomy and Crop

Science

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Plant Science

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Zoology and Zoology

Annual distribution of articles

The data shows that the largest number of articles in the period

analyzed is concentrated in the year 2014, with more than 100 articles.

This is followed by the year 2020 with more than 60 articles and the

year 2021, with more than 55 articles respectively. It is valid to point

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Thus, a PI ≥1 indicates a production of 10 articles or more;

similarly, PI = 0 indicates the production of only one article. This

productivity index makes it possible to establish three classes of

authors according to their productivity: major producers with 10 or

more articles (IP≥1), intermediate (0<IP<1) and transient (IP=0).

To calculate the IP, a list of authors was prepared containing

each of the authors and co-authors, indicating their aliation, total

production of articles and participation as main and secondary

author.

In this analysis, Ettiene G. stands out with 14 articles, followed

by Sulbarán B., with 12, Sandoval L., with 11, Bracho B. and

Fernández V. with 10 articles. The fth position is occupied by

Berradre M., Pacheco D., Pérez-Pérez, Soto J. and Sánchez-

Urdaneta with 9 articles each (gure 3).

Figure 3. Distribution of authors. Period 2011-2021.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Figure 4. Evolution of authors. Period 2011-2021.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

out that in the years 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2009, 2011 and 2017,

the scientic production was between 29 and 32 articles per year,

being 2015 the year with the lowest amount (gure 1).

Figure 1. Annual distribution of articles. Period 2011-2021.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Documentary typology

Figure 2 shows the distribution of the documentary typology,

prevailing (96.6%) the articles published in the journal, this present

higher quality information, because they have rigor from peer

review.

Figure 2. Distribution of documentary typology. Period 2011-

2021.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Authorship

Figures 3 and 4 show the data of authorial scientic production

in the period under study. A widely used bibliometric indicator is

the productivity of researchers, which is governed by Lotka’s law.

In our case, it was used to measure the productivity of the authors

of Rev. Fac. Agron (LUZ).

The productivity index is mathematically calculated according

to the formula: IP = Log n, where: IP = Productivity index, n =

number of articles.

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Figure 3 shows the productivity index of the journal. There

are only 5 authors who have a PI≥1 and who can be considered as

major producers; that is, they have published 10 articles or more.

On the contrary, 340 of the authors have produced a single article

(IP=0). Analyzed from another point of view, 97 of the authors have

written between 2 and 9 articles. Although these gures refer to both

main authors and co-authors, they agree with data obtained in other

investigations.

Aliations

The analysis by institutional aliation shows the origin of the authors

by institutions. In the rst place is the Universidad del Zulia (LUZ), with

193 authors in the published papers; it is followed by the Universidad de

Los Andes, with 38 authors in the published articles (gure 5).

Figure 5. Distribution of articles by institutional aliation.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Production by country

With regard to the analysis by country, the rst place in scientic

production is held by Venezuela, with a total of 315 articles; the

second place is held by Mexico, with 45 articles; the third place is

held by Ecuador, with 34 articles; the fourth place is held by Spain,

with 32 articles; followed by Cuba, with 21 articles, Brazil, with 20

articles, Colombia, with 13 articles, and Chile, with 11 articles (gure 6).

Figure 6. Distribution of articles by country

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data

In the distribution of the articles by most cited by countries, the

most cited were Venezuela with 232 citations, followed by Spain with

45 citations and Mexico with 32 citations (gure 7).

Figure 7. Distribution of articles by most cited countries.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

International collaboration

In international collaboration, it can be observed that there are

wide and diverse collaboration networks both with countries in the

Americas, especially Mexico, Ecuador and Cuba, and in Europe,

mainly Spain (gure 8).

Figure 8. Collaboration map.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Languages

In the period analyzed, 391 articles appeared in English and 126

in Spanish (gure 9), the former prevailing because the journal has

within its policies the publication of articles in English. Since English

is widely used by scientists all over the world, the production in

English guarantees access to researchers from all over the world and

is recognized as the language with the greatest impact in science.

Citations

In the analysis of the documents published in Rev. Fac. Agron.

(LUZ) with more citations worldwide, 4 authors stand out with more

than 10 citations (Olivares B., Sivoli L., Contreras G. and Celis-

Velazquez R.) (gure 10).

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Figure 9. Language capacity. Evolution of articles in English.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Figure 10. Most cited documents.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Sources

In relation to the analysis of the most cited sources of information

in the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía, 19 citations of this

journal stand out in the rst place. The second place is occupied by

Bioagro and J. Agr. Food Chemical, with 14 citations each. The third

position corresponds to Theriogenology and Thesis, with 13 citations

each. Fourth place goes to SCI Horti Amsterdam, with 12 citations.

Fifth place goes to Food Chem. with 9 citations, followed by

CULTROP, with 8 citations, in sixth place. The seventh place goes to

Anim Reprod SCI and Interciencia, with 7 citations each. The eighth

place goes to Front Plant SCI and Pastos y Forrajes, with 5 citations

each. The ninth place is shared by: Agron. J., Anal. Chim. Acta, Ann.

Bot-London, J. Arid. Environ., J. Exp. Bot., J. Food Compos. Anal.,

Rev. Bras. Semente and Rev. Bras. Zootecn.,, with 4 citations each.

This panorama shows that researchers use a diversity of national and

international sources of information (gure 11 and gure 12).

Figure 11. Sources of information cited in the Revista de la

Facultad de Agronomíua.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Figure 12. Citation network in the Revista de la Facultad de

Agronomía.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Thematic trend

Four clusters are observed (gure 13). The words that constitute

agronomic terms in the red cluster are: fertilization, biomass, crops

and seeds. In the purple cluster, the term fruit trees stands out. In the

green cluster the terms: germination, seeds, water and species. In the

blue cluster, the agronomic terms are soils and seeds. These terms

that stand out are vegetable agriculture; however, no term related to

animal agriculture appears (gure 14).

Networks of collaboration among authors

In the collaboration networks between authors, four networks

stand out, consisting mainly of authors Pacheco, Ettiene, Rodriguez

and Sulbaran (gure 15).

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Figure 13. Thematic trend.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Figure 14. Thematic trend.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Figure 15. Collaboration networks among authors.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Collaboration networks among institutions

In the network of collaboration between institutions, the network of

the Universidad del Zulia with national and international universities

(Spain and Ecuador) prevails as the most extensive (gure 16).

Figure 16. Collaboration networks between institutions.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Collaboration networks between countries

In the collaboration networks between countries, two clusters

stand out, the rst is made up of Venezuela, Chile, France, Colombia,

Spain and the USA; the second cluster is made up of Mexico, Cuba,

Ecuador, Brazil and Uruguay (gure 17 and gure 18).

Figure 17. Collaboration networks between countries.

Source: Authors’ elaboration based on Scopus data.

Conclusions

According to the analyses described and bibliometric indicators

presented, although there are still areas in which it is necessary to favor

better indicators, it can be concluded that the Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ)

presents an important evolution and expansion, especially in terms of

the number of articles published annually, collaboration of authors,

institutions and nationalities. Additionally, the number of citations of

the articles published in the journal has grown exponentially, although

this aspect requires more time to evaluate its stability.

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This work has presented general indicators of the production of

Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ), since 2011, with the aim of characterizing

the historical development of this publication, which has a relevant

trajectory in terms of scientic production in agronomy in Venezuela.

The indicators show that currently the Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ) is

positioned as a space of diverse publication in the agricultural subject

at national and international level, it has presented a high growth in

its indicators, besides projecting itself as a continuous contribution to

the scientic development and diusion of agronomy.

We found 442 documents published in the journal from 2011 to

2021, with a total of 1375 authors, with an average of 4.43 authors

per article, similar to that presented by Schmidt et al., (2017), who

identies that there are 5.2 authors per article in the thematic area

of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. In the study period, the

number of articles published in the Rev. Fac. Agron. (LUZ), has had

a sustained growth.

The information provided has made it possible to give a

quantitative account of the changes that the journal has had over time

in its citation indexes, which has been considered an adequate way of

describing its development.

One of the aspects that is exposed as a continuous challenge for this

publication is to propose constant improvement for an increase in the

indexes of quality and visibility, aspects that reect the performance

of constant work and strengthening of good editorial practices.

In conclusion, the Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía of the

Universidad del Zulia has experienced an improvement in quality,

which is conrmed by its permanence in international databases such

as Scopus and WoS.

On the other hand, the bibliometric results found in this study

are positive and show improvement. However, in order to continue

improving the bibliometric and scientometric indicators, the journal

should improve the following aspects:

1) it is important that the number of references less than 5 years/

article in relation to the year of submission of the publication increases

(to decrease obsolescence),

2) it is necessary to increase interdisciplinary collaboration in the

works, in order to favor the Collaboration Index,

3) bibliometric indicators should be monitored, taking into

account the versatility of the interpretation,

5) the bibliometric measurements made in the databases in

which indexing has been achieved should be incorporated into the

monitoring as an added value.

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Figure 18. Collaboration networks between countries.

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