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NUNEZ ESPINOZA, Juan Felipe; SANGERMAN-JARQUIN, Dora Ma.  y  NAVARRO-BRAVO, Agustín. Analysis of scientific collaboration in papers published by the Mexican Journal of Agricultural Sciences. II. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.8, pp.1879-1891. ISSN 2007-0934.

The process of generating or build a scientific journal aims to influence the dissemination of the work of researchers of various regions and countries. The objective of this paper was to analyze the importance of the Mexican Journal of Agricultural Sciences, INIFAP, as an instrument of knowledge construction; through social networks. The Mexican Journal of Agricultural Sciences (REMEXCA) is of Open Access Open Journal System (OJS), as manager of editorial processes. The analysis is based on information published by the journal during 2010-2015, groups were categorized as: areas of knowledge, by knowledge source community of employees, main partner institutions with publications, researches agglomeration, by area of knowledge, main collaborating institutions with publications, collaborating countries, linking researchers of other countries, nodal degree in the scientific community partners, social complexity, knowledge network in REMEXCA, nodal degree, reticular complexity, intermediation analysis of reciprocity and trust and click analysis. Some of the conclusions were: a) scientific journals are an important tool to identify and analyze the construction of scientific communities, through their partnerships; b) construction of these communities are made based on inputs of sociability, objective and subjective, with which inputs such as trust, cooperation and affiliation, among others are managed; c) these communities are not unchanging and are continually changing over time; d) analysis of these communities through social network analysis (SNA) as a social intervention approach opens the possibility to explore knowledge management process. The journal has increased 70% in publishing scientific papers, national and international author that are on the National Research System (AS), 70% publish in the journal, of the 10 journals in the agricultural area, found within the catalog of scientific journals of the National Council of Science and Technology, contained within the best national and international levels and, the national and international visibility is one of the best.

Palabras llave : diffusion; knowledge areas; scientific journal; scientific papers; researchers.

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