Social visibility by lbero-American scholarly journals in Arts and Humanities from ESCI-WoS (Emerging Source Citation Index): an altmetric approach

Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) as new Web of Science product database, grows remarkably every year. It currently has more than 8,000 journals across different academic disciplines. This work aims to analyze visibility from lberoamerican journals in Art and Humanities (A&H) areas based on characterization of research sub-categories, publishers, publication languages and impact activity in social media. Descriptive analysis methods were carried out on data from Altmetric.com platform to social mediatic impact assessment of 442 scholarly journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. It is concluded that more than half of A&H sub-categories (17 of 26) include journals of lbero-American origin. 2 of them standing out, with significant global coverage of over 55%: Literature, Romance (71.79%) and Classics (56.25%) and 3 of the over 40%: Architecture (43.75%); History (46.72%) and Medieval & Renaissance Studies (45.94%). The presence of English as a possible publication language in more than half of the analyzed journals indicates the degree of visibility of the same. A large number of the journals analyzed are found on social networks, with Facebook and Twitter being the most active, where interactions and comments by countries outside lberoAmerica related to the content of the journals studied contribute to affirm the acceptable visibility of A&H lbero-Americana journals.