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Y cuando se compara el ranking <strong>de</strong> <strong>revistas</strong> con el<br />

ofrecido por Scopus y WOS se constata que GSM<br />

ofrece unos indicadores <strong>de</strong> mayor tamaño (casi el do -<br />

ble) y, lo que es más relevante, una alta correlación,<br />

algo ya también <strong>de</strong>mostrado en otros estudios (Van -<br />

clay, 2008; Harzing & Wal, 2009; Delgado Ló pez-<br />

Cózar & al., 2012; Cabezas & Delgado López-Cózar,<br />

en prensa). Consecuentemente se pue<strong>de</strong> afirmar que<br />

GSM mi<strong>de</strong> <strong>las</strong> <strong>revistas</strong> <strong>de</strong> forma muy parecida a los clásicos<br />

sistemas <strong>de</strong> evaluación <strong>de</strong> <strong>revistas</strong> (WOS y<br />

Scopus), por lo que en líneas generales, y a efectos únicamente<br />

<strong>de</strong> ranking, es una alternativa tan fiable y válida<br />

como éstos para medir el <strong>impacto</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>las</strong> <strong>revistas</strong>.<br />

En <strong>de</strong>finitiva, en este trabajo se proporciona el im -<br />

pacto <strong>de</strong> 277 <strong>revistas</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>comunicación</strong> a partir <strong>de</strong> su<br />

índice h. Aunque esta cifra significa aproximadamente<br />

menos <strong>de</strong> la mitad (41,7%) <strong>de</strong>l universo <strong>de</strong> re vistas <strong>de</strong><br />

<strong>comunicación</strong> circulantes en el mundo, en ella figuran<br />

<strong>las</strong> <strong>revistas</strong> nucleares <strong>de</strong> Comunicación en el mundo,<br />

ocupando, a<strong>de</strong>más, <strong>las</strong> posiciones cabeceras.<br />

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