Perfil das revistas científicas nacionais de extensão universitária: ações para a gestão editorial

Abstract

The scientific journals, digital or printed, give visibility to the scientific publications, serving as a communication means capable of oficially registering researches. When talking about scientific extension journals, whose tematic areas are multidisciplinary, the line of thought is the same, prioritizing the diffusion of extensionist works. Just as scientific journals are reviewed, so are the extension journals. In this work, fundamented on conceptions by Araújo (2015 and 2018); Gruszynski, Golin, Castedo (2008); Gruszynski, Castedo (2011); Bomfá (2003 and 2009); Barbalho (2005); e Oliveira (2017, 2021) a diagram of criterias for editing digital extension magazines was created, showing scientific quality and visibility parameters. The developed diagram was applied in 43 active national scientific extension journals, selected from listings found on RENEX and Unesp websites, intending to trace a profile for brazilian universities extension journals. The metodology used was divided in three steps: exploratory and bibliographic on the information sources research step; exploratory and descriptive on the selected journals websites analysis and in the preparation of the management action plan step; and descriptive on the last step that envolved applying editorial actions for management on the Experiência Journal. The results obtained through this study present important characteristics and particularities of the analyzed journals regarding their scientific quality and visibility.