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Bibliometric analysis through methodological quality indicators of Spanish education journals indexed in JCR during the three year period 2014-2016

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This study carries out a bibliometric evaluation through methodological quality indicators of the scientific production published during the triennium of 2014 to 2016 in the seven Spanish journals of education indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Revista de Psicodidáctica; Comunicar; Revista de Educación; Educación XX1; Enseñanza de las Ciencias, Revista Española de Pedagogía; y Porta Linguarum. Through a bibliometric-descriptive methodology, a sample of articles that totals 479 and selected through a non-probabilistic sampling of deliberate type. Overall, the results obtained indicate that the journals evaluated have achieved levels of compliance with the proposed methodological indicators, which show the excellent methodological quality treasured by these publications, although better in some journals than in others without detriment so that they have also been detected methodological indicators that can be improved. These indicators are related, above all, to the non-explicitation of the typologies of methodological approach, of the sampling used, as well as of the quantitative quality criteria (reliability and validity) and of a qualitative nature. Finally, note that there is empirical evidence to support that the best considered is a journal in JCR in also credited with a better methodological quality.