Revisión métrica de las revistas sobre herpetología de México

Due large number of publications in natural sciences, today we know unequivocally that Mexico is one of the richest countries in biodiversity on the planet. Among this biological diversity, amphibians and reptiles stand out in the first positions, they are the subject of study in the discipline called herpetology. The dimension of this valuable biological resource can be analyzed with metric studies, since the latter gives an idea of how much interest there is in publishing on a certain topic and how much a country is concerned with the knowledge, use and conservation of these important organisms. This review reports for the first time a specific metric analysis of the Mexican journals specialized and non-specialized in herpetology at time. It could be expected that a biodiverse region like Mexico would motivate editorial interest to create various publications in herpetology, however, the analysis shows that the editorial occupation of Mexican journals has been scarce in this discipline. Production Index allows us to know that within Mexico only 2.5 % (2 journals) of 76 publications are specialized in herpetology. This indicator is only an approach, as several publications are not detected by digital search methods because they do not provide sufficient metadata for indexing. On the other hand, the comparison of journals published in Mexico vs the United States (US) by means of the parity analysis indicates that the US surpasses Mexico with an Editorial Gap of 19 journals. Academic, publishing, government, civil and private associations, and citizens, can obtain specific data and indicators from this type of studies to facilitate decision-making and actions to promote the potential knowledge offered by the Mexican biodiversity of amphibians and reptiles.