O PAPEL DA INDEXAÇÃO COMO FATOR PRINCIPAL NA VISIBILIDADE DOS PERIÓDICOS CIENTÍFICOS

Abstract

In the world of information processing, the act of indexing is the process of transfer and analytical description of the most important information in the area of Librarianship. It is through the indexation that we know how a term or subject registered in a standardized way in the systems and informational resources are found, thus enabling its recognition in the scientific environment, and consequently the visibility of the scientific publications in the indexing channels. Thus, the present work aims to present the role of indexing as the main factor in the visibility of scientific journals, considering that indexing is classified in three types of sources: public, private and autonomous. For this reason, the text proposes to conceptualize these sources, as well as distinguish what are scientific indexers and scientific disseminators. Also, describes the paths the editor follows to reach these indexers, in order to give visibility to their journals. Through an experimental study working with scientific publishing, a role that the author has been dealing with for years, have been presented concepts and definitions to distinguish the most appropriate types of resources that editors of periodicals should request for indexation. It concludes diagnosing, through this classification, what are indexers and disseminators that consolidate the visibility and qualification of journals in the scientific environment. Points out the advantages the publisher gets by indexing its publications using these informational resources,