Methodology for evaluating bibliographic references for works published under the Ecimed publishing label

Abstract

Introduction: what is meritorious and necessary about quality bibliographic citations and references is that they support the contents, provide reliability and allow verification and expansion of knowledge with transparency. The Ciencias Médicas Publishing House is immersed in the implementation of the quality management system, which covers all editorial processes to facilitate the publication of high-quality works.

Objective: establish the methodology for evaluating the quality of citations and bibliographic references of the works to be edited.

Methods: to design the methodology, a qualitative documentary research study was carried out, aimed at obtaining information through the collection, organization and analysis of documents of any kind such as bibliographic, newspaper or archival sources, both physical and digital. The methodology designed by the Mexican authors Martín and Lafuente was taken as a basis, who in 2017 published nine evaluation indicators of bibliographic references, which were analyzed, tempered and the dimensions that gave rise to the methodology were designed. For each dimension, with its criteria, indicators, norms and/or evaluation standards were built, harmonized according to the identified guidelines, thus designing the first version of the methodology.

Results: after the evaluative analysis of each dimension, the final evaluation of the references of the work was carried out and for this the evaluation criteria proposed in the methodology to be implemented were output.

Conclusions: the methodology for evaluating the quality of bibliographies citations that we propose for works published under the Ecimed publishing label requires an implementation and validation process. Generating quality citations for researchers that are useful in their own research contributes to Open Science.