Indexing is a fundamental factor for academic texts to be positively valued by the corresponding courts and approved agencies.

rita_ will apply for inclusion/incorporation in national and international evaluation indexes as the conditions required by each one are met. Currently, rita_ is part of the ESCI (WoS), Scopus, Avery Index, Latindex, MIAR, Actualidad Iberoamericana, DOAJ and InfoBase Index indexes. In addition, it has been incorporated into the following databases: Dialnet and ISOC.
Later, the following will be added, among others:

• _Journal Citation Reports from the Science Citation Index (SCI)
• _Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
• _Louvain Bibliographic Repertoire
• _Art Index
• _Publindex

LEGAL TEXTS

CNEAI (National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity) criteria for considering a means of disseminating research as sufficiently reliable.

Royal Decree 1086/1989, of 28 August, introduced a new concept into the remuneration system for university professors, aimed at encouraging research activity through annual evaluations that were entrusted to a national evaluation committee. Likewise, the Resolution of the Ministry of Finance of 28 December 1989 introduced the same concept for the research staff of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).

The evaluation of scientific activity is a regulated process in which the quality criteria that serve as a basis for the evaluation are established by an Order of the Ministry of Education and Science for university teaching staff and by a Resolution of the Secretary of State for Universities and Research for researchers of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, with the Order of December 2, 1994 ("Official State Gazette" number 289, of the 3rd) and the Resolution of December 5, 1994 ("Official State Gazette" number 293, of the 8th) being in force. The application of the evaluation criteria, established in the aforementioned provisions, is carried out through advisory committees and specialist experts. Furthermore, in order to guide the process, the Resolution of November 6, 1996 ("Official State Gazette" number 280, of the 20th) established the specific criteria that should be applied in each field of knowledge, these being detailed in the Resolution of October 25, 2005 ("Official State Gazette" number 266, of November 7).

Since the publication of the Resolution of October 25, 2005, the CNEAI has agreed to introduce some changes that, without being substantial, reflect the experience of the last call, materially facilitating the evaluation process, especially with regard to the Field of Engineering and Architecture.

The criteria set out here reflect the basic principles of the preceding regulations (RD 1086/1989 of 28 August, BOE of 9 September; OM of 2 December 1994, BOE of 3; Resolutions of 5 December 1994, BOE of 8; of 26 October 1995, BOE of 16 November, 6 November 1996, BOE of 20 and 25 October 2005 ("Official State Gazette" number 266, of 7 November), of which this is a continuation and update, taking into account the experience and reasoned opinions of the numerous experts who have participated in the evaluation committees of the National Commission.

As indicated in the Resolution of 25 October 2005 ("Official State Gazette" number 266, of 7 November) within the general task of orientation and updating the criteria with which the CNEAI acts, an important aspect is to determine the formal conditions that must be required of a means of disseminating research results, so that an acceptable impact of the same can be expected. In the different areas of knowledge, scientific, technical and social, there are indexes that order, by degree of dissemination, publications of recognized prestige. The CNEAI understands that appearing in one of these indexes is sufficient guarantee that what is published in that journal has assured quality. It is more complicated to determine when there is a guarantee of quality in a means of dissemination that does not appear in international indexes. The Resolution leaves open the possibility for authors to communicate to the Evaluation Commission the independent citations and recognitions that the publications have had up to that moment that endorse the research activity carried out.

Furthermore, in order to alleviate the difficulty mentioned, this Resolution includes, in Appendix 1, a list of minimum formal criteria that a research dissemination medium must meet in order to be recognized a priori as offering sufficient guarantee. The list of criteria is inspired by those that govern publications that form part of the consolidated international indexes.

Finally, although the minimum requirements set out for obtaining a positive evaluation attempt to regulate the evaluation as much as possible, their application is not absolute, since it must be modulated according to the circumstances of each discipline, as provided for in the Order of 2 December 1994. The modulation of these minimums, in each particular case, corresponds to the Committees of experts and, ultimately, to the CNEAI. In the same sense, the field of evaluation that must be dealt with in a given application is sometimes not an unequivocal decision; for this reason, the CNEAI will take into account the wishes expressed in this regard by each applicant.

Consequently, after its study by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity, this General Directorate-Presidency of the CNEAI has decided to make public the specific evaluation criteria by scientific fields.

APPENDIX I

Criteria that a research dissemination medium (journal, book, conference) must meet so that what is published in it is recognized as "impactful"

A. Criteria that refer to the informative quality of the journal as a means of scientific communication.

• Identification of the members of the editorial and scientific committees.
• Detailed instructions to authors.
• Information on the manuscript evaluation and selection process used by the journal, publisher, selection committee, including, for example, the criteria, procedure and review plan of the reviewers or judges.
• Translation of the summary, article titles, keywords and abstracts into English, in the case of journals and conference proceedings.

B. Criteria on the quality of the editorial process.

• Periodicity of journals and regularity and homogeneity of the editorial line in the case of book publishers.
• Anonymity in the review of manuscripts.
• Reasoned communication of the editorial decision, for example, use by the journal, the publisher or the selection committee of a reasoned notification of the editorial decision that includes the reasons for the acceptance, revision or rejection of the manuscript, as well as the opinions issued by external experts.
• Existence of an advisory board, made up of professionals and researchers of recognised solvency, without institutional links to the journal or publisher, and aimed at setting the editorial policy and subjecting it to evaluation and audit.

Criteria on the scientific quality of journals.

• Percentage of research articles: more than 75% of the articles must be works that communicate original research results.
• Authorship: degree of editorial inbreeding, more than 75% of the authors will be external to the editorial committee and virtually unrelated to the editorial organization of the journal.

Special attention will also be paid to the progressive indexing of journals in specialized international databases.

Criteria for assessing the activity of academic staff in:

Subfield 6.3. Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction and Urban Planning.

1. Contributions will only be assessed if they represent real progress in knowledge, measurable technological development or methodological innovation.

2. The number of authors will not be evaluable as such, but must be justified by the topic, its complexity and its length.

3. Among the contributions, the following will be preferably valued:

• a) Works published in journals of recognised value, accepting as such those occupying relevant positions in the lists by scientific fields in the "Subject Category Listing" of the "Journal Citation Reports" of the "Science Citation Index" (Institute for Scientific Information, -ISI- Philadelphia, PA, USA), in the areas of knowledge to which it is applicable. In other cases, as appropriate, the "Journal Citation Reports" of the "Social Science Citation Index" (ISI) will be considered. Articles published in journals included in international engineering databases (such as TRIS Electronic Bibliography Data and International Development Abstracts), the international indexes of architectural publications (Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals of the Avery Library -Columbia University-; Architectural Publications Index of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Arts and Humanities Citation Index -ISI-) will also be taken into account. Electronic journals will be considered when they appear in the ISI listings or meet the criteria for journals specified in Appendix I of this resolution.
• b) Works published in the proceedings of conferences that have a system of external peer review, when these proceedings are a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge comparable to international journals of recognized prestige.
• c) Important technological and architectural developments whose recognition can be demonstrated.
• (d) Books and book chapters, particularly relevant in the architectural field, whose evaluation will take into account the number and quality of citations, where possible, or other measures of their level of impact, as well as the international prestige of the publisher; the editors; the collection in which the work is published; the rigorous process of selection and evaluation of originals, and the reviews in specialized scientific journals.
• e) Singular architectural, urban planning or engineering projects, which will be assessed for their innovative nature, as confirmed by the awards and distinctions received, for their impact on national and international specialist literature or for having been shown in relevant exhibitions with a catalogue.
• f) Participation in prestigious exhibitions and monographic exhibitions dedicated to a single author. Participation as a curator of these exhibitions will also be considered, provided that a catalogue is published with repercussion in the national and international specialized media.
• g) Patents in operation, proven by a sales contract or a licensing contract. The scope of the patent protection (national, European or by the Patent Cooperation Treaty -PCT-) will be taken into account, with the most extensive protection being valued more. This contribution will also be valid if the patent has been granted by the European Patent and Trademark Office through the prior examination system.

4. As a general rule, to obtain a positive evaluation, the contributions in the short CV must meet one of the criteria described in the previous points.

5. As a guide, it is considered that to obtain a positive evaluation, for technological profiles, in the areas of Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction and Urban Planning, at least two of the contributions must be of types 3.a), 3.b), 3.c) or 3.g).

Also as a guide, it is considered that to obtain a positive evaluation in the areas of Architecture, for non-technological profiles, at least one of the contributions must be of one of the types 3.a), 3.b), 3.c), 3.d), 3.g) and another of any of the types provided for in section 3.

Criteria of RD 1086/1989 of August 28, BOE of September 9; OM of December 2, 1994, BOE of 3; Resolutions of December 5, 1994, BOE of 8; of October 26, 1995, BOE of November 16, of November 6, 1996, BOE of October 20 and 25, 2005 ("Official State Gazette" number 266, of November 7) and appendix 1 of this last resolution