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is the need to share and utilize it among the members of the scientific community. The concept of science, either basic or applied, implicates its utility for the development of the society. This is the reason why no discovery should stay private and the public access needs to be established. It is a kind of exchange which benefits the authors and the scientific community. The investigators gain because thanks to the propagation of their works they obtain fame and prestige and the community gains a new knowledge. Once the investigation is completed the researchers use the communication channels to spread the results. Among them, the articles published in scientific journals are the most common and their advantage is that they give a feedback to the researcher by calculating the impact factor of the work. Different criteria are continuously being analyzed to increase the propagation and the quality of the scientific journals (see for example GiménezToledo, Rodríguez-García, & de la Moneda Corrochano, 2009; Giménez-Toledo, Román-Román, & Alcain-Partearroyo, 2007; Jiménez Contreras, Delgado López-Cozar, Ruiz Pérez, Rodríguez García, & de la Moneda Corrochano, 2009). Taking into account the increase in the research activity (Jiménez-Contreras, Moya Anegón, & Delgado López-Cózar, 2003) it is crucial to distinguish between the works which quality is high and other which quality is lower. Traditionally, the most important method to evaluate the quality of the work was the peer review, also called the experts review. According to Fernández Cano (1995) one of its most important functions is the selection of Analysis of the relationship between the number of citations and the quality evaluated by experts in psychology journals