Producción científica de América Latina y el Caribe: una aproximación a través de los datos de Scopus (1996 – 2007)

Santa, Samaly and Herrero Solana, Víctor Producción científica de América Latina y el Caribe: una aproximación a través de los datos de Scopus (1996 – 2007). Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología, 2010, vol. 33, n. 2, pp. 379-400. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

The study, carried out on the data from Scopus shows the main trends and characteristics of scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1996-2008. The scientific production and citation, publication profiles and cooperation were studied, with special emphasis on the ten major producers of the region. The analysis revealed an important increase of scientific production in the recent years, a growth observed in almost all the countries, with Brazil on top of the list representing 50% of the total production in 2007. The region as a whole increased its percentual weight in the world, in its production as citation, and the growth has been even higher in citation; however, the visibility of regional science, in terms of average citation per document, ranked below the world average, the smaller countries reaching the highest averages. In summary, scientific production has been characterized by a high international cooperation, which has also grown significantly, and although the interegional cooperation has experienced a higher growth, it is still precarious.

Spanish abstract

El trabajo, que se llevó a cabo sobre datos de Scopus, tuvo como propósito retratar las principales tendencias y características de la producción científica de América Latina y el Caribe durante el periodo 1996-2007. Para ello se analizaron la producción y la citación, los perfiles de publicación y la colaboración científica, con especial énfasis en los diez mayores productores de la región. El análisis reveló un importante aumento de la producción científica regional en los últimos años, crecimiento que se ha observado en casi todos los países, con Brasil a la cabeza, que representó el 50% del total de la producción en 2007. La región en conjunto ha aumentado su peso porcentual en el mundo, tanto en producción como en citación, e incluso el crecimiento ha sido mayor en citación; sin embargo, la visibilidad de la ciencia regional, en términos de citación media por documento, se ubicó por debajo de la media mundial y fueron los países pequeños los que alcanzaron los mejores promedios. En síntesis, la actividad científica se ha caracterizado por una intensa colaboración internacional, que ha crecido también de manera significativa, y aunque la colaboración intrarregional ha experimentado un mayor crecimiento, sus cifras siguen siendo precarias.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Scientific production, Latin America and the Caribbean, scientific cooperation, visibility, producción científica, América Latina, visibilidad, Scopus
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information.
Depositing user: Luis Fernando Ramírez Restrepo
Date deposited: 21 Apr 2012
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:22
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16874

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