Tecnologías digitales para la transferencia e impacto del conocimiento

The study of a scientific journal allows knowing the process of creation and dissemination of knowledge, as well as the interests and trends of a given era. The article presents the case of the Bulletin of the National Psychopedagogical Institute that was published between 1942 and 1953, and which spread the activities of the institution, the research about Peruvian school students and the educational reality of that time. However the quality of published work, thanks to the effort of a remarkable group of researchers with European education, the Bulletin stopped appearing as a result of the deactivation of the Institute, fact that was celebrated by some educators. The article reflects on the state of scientific research in Peru whose conditions, then and now, limit the production and application of knowledge generated by the research activity

This paper presents for the first time an overview of the state of current Peruvian journals. After retrieving and filtering records from LATINDEX, 138 journals were identified and characterized by the following variables: geographical origin, publisher, frequency, format (print, electronic, or both), and subject. The results show that Peruvian journals are mostly published in Lima (66.7%) by a university (73.9%), come out every six months (56.5%) both in print and electronically (67.4%), and publish articles mainly about natural sciences (35.5%). The article points out some problematic issues as well as certain measures for improving the Peruvian journal publishing market.