Ranking of most read articles of URACCAN published in their electronic reviews with open access

Abstract

This study shows the ranking of the most read articles in the Science and Interculturality Magazine and the Caribbean University Magazine, which induce and brought across an internal reflection within Nicaraguan universities, with emphasis on the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast (URACCAN), regarding the benefits of disseminating research results from electronic magazines by using both open access and open source software code such as Open Journal Systems (OJS). Among the results we highlight: i) The digital magazine Science and Interculturality, incorporated in the Nicaragua’s National Magazine Portal, Portal Online Regional Information System for scientific magazines of Latin America, the Caribbean and Portugal (Latindex) and the portal Latin American Journals Online (Lamjol). ii) Science and Interculturality in Latin American Journals Online (Lamjol) received a total of 53.757 visitors since March 2011 to October 2013; the Portal of Journals of Nicaragua received a total of 12,522 visits that reviewed abstracts and 13,881 to review or download full article in PDF, from 2012 to November 2013. And the Portal of Journals of URACCAN received a total of 18,661 visits to review abstracts and 32,254 to review or to download full article in PDF during June 2011 to October 2013. iii). The Nicaraguan Council of Science and Technology (CONICYT), delivered in November 2013, a recognition to the magazine "for their efforts in raising the quality and application of the LATINDEX criteria’s and to achieve visibility of scientific production in LAMJOL - Nicaragua".