Metadata Quality and Academic Visibility Associated with Document Type Coverage in Institutional Repositories of Peruvian Universities

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes level of metadata quality (MQ ratio) and level of academic visibility in Google Scholar (IGS ratio) associated with coverage of four types of documents (theses, articles, books, and conferences) in repositories of Peruvian universities. This research is a cross-sectional descriptive and correlational study with intentional non-probabilistic sampling that analyzes 48 repositories from national (n = 10) and private (n = 38) universities integrated in the Peruvian National Digital Repository Alicia (alicia.concytec.gob.pe). Regarding the MQ ratio, we found a median of 0.67 [RIC: 0.552–0.891] for national universities and a median of 0.65 [RIC: 0.407–0.838] for private universities (p = .542). Regarding the IGS ratio, we found a median of 0.32 [RIC: 0.241–0.596] for national universities and a median of 0.62 [RIC: 0.464–0.749] for private universities (p = .054). The p value in Spearman's rank correlation shows a moderate correlation (ρ = 0.594; p < .01) between MQ ratio and the thesis coverage indicator, and a low correlation (ρ = 0.157) between the index of document indexing in Google Scholar and the proportion of documents harvested in Alicia. We conclude that the highest proportion of academic visibility is concentrated in private universities, and the metadata quality number of items integrated in Alicia favors public universities.

KEYWORDS:

• articles
• books
• digital repositories
• Google Scholar
• metadata
• Peruvian universities
• thesis
• web visibility

Declaration of possible conflicts of interests

DQR at the time of the research was working at CONCYTEC.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Joel Alhuay-Quispe

Joel Alhuay-Quispe, Library and Information Science professional by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and postgraduate student in Master in Information and Knowledge Management (UNMSM). Currently works as Information Technology Analyst at Research Center, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, and publish under following topic research: Bibliometrics, repositories, scientific production.

David Quispe-Riveros

David Quispe-Riveros, Professional with studies in Philosophy and Library and Information Sciences by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Co-funder of the Infoacceso project; with laboral experience in digital academic publications (Central Library UNMSM) and in registry, valuation and protection of the national bibliographic heritage (Biblioteca Nacional del Perú). Currently, he works as a Content Manager at Subdirección de Gestión de Información y Conocimiento del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC) in Lima, Perú.

Lourdes Bautista-Ynofuente

Lourdes Bautista-Ynofuente, Professional in Library and Information Science and postgraduate student in Master in Information and Knowledge Management by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Worked as Librarian in Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, also in Legal Deposit, ISBN and Acquisitions at Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, and currently works in Universidad ESAN at Logistics and Operations Center.

Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza

Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Veterinarian for Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima – Peru) and Master in Management of Information and Knowledge (Montpellier III, France). Worked in the Peruvian Observatory of Science, Technology and Innovation Society (OEI-CAEU), also participated in numerous international conferences (Cuba, Brazil) in the analysis and bibliometric analysis of science and technology. Is professor in the Unit Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine in the area of Information Management. Currently working in Vice Presidency of of Research in USIL as researcher, besides being a partner of the editorial team of the Journal of Veterinary Research of Peru (RIVEP).