Challenges in the study of Cuban scientific output

Ricardo, Arencibia-Jorge and Félix, de Moya-Anegón Challenges in the study of Cuban scientific output. Scientometrics, 2010, vol. 83, n. 3, pp. 723-737. [Journal article (Paginated)]

[thumbnail of Study_of_Cuba-Preprint-Scientometrics.rtf] Text (Rich Text)
Study_of_Cuba-Preprint-Scientometrics.rtf
Download (1MB)

English abstract

Cuban scientific output at macro level has not been frequently studied in the literature on scientometrics. The current paper explores the different metric approaches to the Cuban scientific activity carried out by national and international authors. Also, the article develops a scientometric study of the Cuban scientific production as included in Scopus during the period 1996-2007, using socio-economic indicators combined with bibliometric indicators supported by the SCImago Journal & Country Rank. Web of Science and Scopus are compared as information sources. Results confirm the possibility to use Scopus to obtain an objective picture of the Cuban science behaviour during the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the XXI century. The SCImago Journal & Country Rank, in this case, offers an important set of indicators. The combination of these indicators with those related to socio-economic aspects of activities in Science and Technology, allow the authors to show a perspective of the Cuban science system evolution during the period analyzed. The inclusion in Scopus of less-cited journals published in Spanish language and its impact on productivity and citation-based indicators is also discussed. Our investigation found an increasing growth of the Cuban scientific production during the whole period, which is in correspondence to the country efforts and expenditures in Research and Development activities.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Scientific output, bibliometric indicators, socio-economic indicators, databases, GDP, Cuba.
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Ricardo Arencibia
Date deposited: 03 Jun 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:17
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14639

References

Araujo Ruíz, J.A., Arencibia Jorge, R. & Gutiérrez Calzado, C. (2002). Ensayos clínicos cubanos publicados en revistas de impacto internacional: estudio bibliométrico del período 1991–2001. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 25, 254–266.

Araujo Ruíz, J.A., Torricella Morales, R.G., Van Hooydonk, G. & Arencibia Jorge, R. (2005). Cuban scientific articles in ISI citation indexes and CubaCiencias databases (1988-2003). Scientometrics, 65, 161-171.

Arencibia Jorge, R. & Rousseau, R. (2009). Influence of individual researchers’ visibility on institutional impact: an example of Prathap’s approach to successive h-indices. Scientometrics, 79, 507-516.

Arencibia Jorge, R., Vega Almeida, R.L., Sánchez Tarragó, N. & Araujo Ruíz, J.A. (2008). Producción científica cubana sobre Dengue (1981-2006): un análisis bibliométrico a través de Scopus. ACIMED, 18(3). http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/aci/vol18_3_08/ aci05908.htm. Accessed 25 June 2009.

Collymore Rodríguez, A., Arencibia Jorge, R., Blanco, A. & Araujo Ruíz, J.A. (2008). Producción científica mundial sobre Biodiesel. ACIMED, 18(5). http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/ aci/vol18_5_08/aci041108.htm. Accessed 27 June 2009.

Dorta Contreras, J.A., Arencibia Jorge, R., Martí Lahera, Y. & Araujo Ruíz, J.A. (2008). Productividad y visibilidad de los neurocientíficos cubanos: estudio bibliométrico del período 2001-2005. Revista de Neurología, 47, 355-360.

ECLAC. (2008). Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean. Social statistics. Available in: http://www.one.cu/publicaciones/cepal/aecepal2008/ANUARIO2008_ CEPAL%2021-82.pdf. Accessed 15 June 2009.

Falagas M, Kouranos V, Arencibia-Jorge R, Karageorgopoulos D. (2008a). Comparison of SCImago Journal Rank indicator with journal impact factor. FASEB J. 22, 2623 –2628.

Falagas, M. E., Pitsouni, E. I., Malietzis, G. A., and Pappas, G. (2008b) Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses. FASEB J. 22, 338-342.

Glänzel, W. (2001). National characteristics in international scientific co-authorship. Scientometrics, 51, 69-115.

Glänzel, W. & Schubert, A. (2004). Analysing scientific networks through co-authorship. In: Moed, H.F., Glänzel, W. & Schmoch, U. (2004) (eds.). Handbook of quantitative science and technology research. The use of publication and patent statistics in studies of S&T systems. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 257-276.

Guzmán Sánchez, M.V., E. Sanz Casado, & Sotolongo Aguilar, G. (1998). Bibliometric study on vaccines (1990-1995) part I: Scientific production in Iberian-American countries. Scientometrics, 43, 189-205.

Guzmán Sánchez, M.V., Saavedra Fernández, O. & Sotolongo Aguilar, G. (2002). Medición de la producción científica en América Latina y el Caribe en el campo agrícola: un estudio bibliométrico. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 25, 151-161.

Hung Llamos, B.R., Arencibia Jorge, R. & Araujo Ruíz, J.A. (2008) Identificación de frentes de investigación sobre esteroides en la producción científica cubana en Scopus 1996-2006. ACIMED, 18(2). http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/aci/vol17_3_08/aci04308.htm. Accessed 25 June 2009.

Jacsó, P. (2008). The pros and cons of computing the h-index using Scopus. Online Information Review, 32, 524-535.

Jacsó, P. (2009). Errors of omission and their implications for computing scientometric measures in evaluating the publishing productivity and impact of countries. Online Information Review, 33, 376-385.

King, D.A. (2004) The scientific impacto f nations. What different countries get for their research spending. Nature, 430, 311-316.

Lancaster, F.W., Porta, M.A., Plagenz, K., Szymborski, K. & Krebs, M. (1986) Factors influencing sources cited by scientists: a case study for Cuba. Scientometrics, 10, 243-257.

Leydesdorff, L., Moya-Anegón, F. & Guerrero-Bote, V.P. (2009) Journal maps on the basis of Scopus data: a comparison with the Journal Citation Report of the ISI. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, in press.

Licea de Arenas, J., Valles, J. & Williams, D. (1994). Investigación cubana en agricultura: un enfoque bibliométrico. Ciencias de la Información, 25, 136-141.

Macías Chapula, C.A. (2001). Papel de de informetría y de la cienciometría y su perspectiva nacional e internacional. ACIMED, 9(Suppl.), 35-41.

Meske, W. & Fernández de Alaiza, M. C. (1990). Structure and development of the scientific and technological potencial in the republic of Cuba. Scientometrics, 18, 137-155.

Moed, H. (2005). Citation analysis in research evaluation. Dordrecht: Springer, 285-290.

Moral, L.P. (1989). Elements for a diagnosis of applied research and development in Cuba using patent information: 1968-1983. Scientometrics, 17, 83-96.

Moya-Anegón, F.D., Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z., Vargas-Quesada, B. & González-molina, A. (2006). Visualización de redes de colaboración internacional In: I Conferencia Internacional sobre Ciencias y Tecnologías Multidisciplinares de la Información. Mérida (España), 25-29 de octubre de 2006. Retrieved August 10, 2007 from: www.scimago.es/benjamin/265.pdf

Moya-Anegón, F.d., Chinchilla-Rodriguez, Z., Vargas-Quesada, B., Corera-Alvarez, E., Munoz-Fernandez, F. J., Gonzalez-Molina, A., and Herrero-Solana, V. (2007). Coverage analysis of Scopus: a journal metric approach. Scientometrics 73, 53–78.

Moya-Anegón, F.d. & Herrero-Solana, V. (1999). Science in America Latina: a comparison of bibliometric and scientifical-technical indicators. Scientometrics 46, 299–320.

Nalimov, V.V. & Mulchenko, Z.M. (1969). Naukometrija: izuchenie razvitija nauki kak nformatsionnogo processa, Moskva: Nauka.

Narin, F., Stevens, K. & Whitlow, E.s. (1991). Scientific co-operation in Europe and the citation of multinationally authored papers. Scientometrics, 21, 313-323.

Sancho, R., Bernal, G. & Galvez, L. (1993). Approach to the Cuban Scientific Activity by Using Publication Based Quantitative Indicators (1985-1989). Scientometrics, 28, 297-312.

Tomizawa, H. (2008). Custom data fuels OECD´s innovation strategy. Research Trends, 8, 3.

Torricella Morales, R.G., Van Hooydonk, G. & Araujo Ruíz, J.A. (2000). Citation analysis of cuban research. Part 1. A case study: the Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science. Scientometrics, 47, 413-426.

Vinkler, P. (2008). Correlation between the structure of scientific research, scientometric indicators and GDP in EU and non-EU countries. Scientometrics, 74, 237-254.

Zitt, M., Ramanana-Rahari, S. & Bassecoulard, E. (2003). Correcting glasses help fair comparisons in international science landscape: country indicators as a function of ISI database delineation. Scientometrics, 56, 259-282.

Zitt, M. & Bassecoulard, E. (2008). Challenges for scientometric indicators: data demining, knowledge-flow measurements and diversity issues. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 8, 49-60.


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item
Contact us
Send email Sponsors
Sponsor: AIMS Sponsor: D&P Sponsor: UniNa CAB Get connected
Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter Linkedin LinkedIn RSS RSS