Comparing the Scientific Production of Peruvian Universities with Equitable Indexes

Abstract

In recent years, research has been taking an important role in Peru. There are different sources of funding for research projects, research internships, the publication of scientific articles, scholarships for postgraduate studies, among others. This importance of research has resulted in an interest in being able to measure and compare universities according to their scientific production. One of the main factors to be used to make these comparisons is the number of articles published and indexed in SCOPUS. However, this measure is not entirely fair, since it is not equitable to compare a large university with a small university since large universities have more human resources to publish scientific articles. Seeing this reality, in the present work, we present a comparison of scientific production in Peruvian universities, taking into account the size of the institutions. Among the results obtained, we can observe a change in the ranking of small universities that invest heavily in research.

Scientific Production of Rectors of Peruvian Universities

“…Our results also show the impact of the university law, accreditation processes, and financing funds (Roman-Gonzalez et al, 2019), reporting exponential growth in recent years, but that, it is still scarce, similar data were found in relation to the vice-rectors of research (Herrera-Añazco et al, 2017). This result also helps us understand students who perceive in their leaders the lack of capacities to direct them and help them with their research (Mejia et al, 2016; and that it would be important that one of the qualifications to be rector, is related to his qualification by the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation of Peru (Concytec) and registration as a Renacyt researcher (National Registry of Researchers).…”

“…It is also observed that the rector of the Peruvian university best located in the global ranking does not have publications. It is important to note that this result has to take equity aspects into account since it is not entirely fair to compare a large university with a small one because large universities have greater human resources and therefore better groups of researchers (Roman-Gonzalez et al, 2019).…”

“…In recent years, there has been a discussion about the low Peruvian scientific production compared to other countries in the region (Hernández, 2019;Roman-Gonzalez et al, 2019). Even though some reports reveal that there has been improvement in some branches such as biomedical research (Glass et al, 2018), it is still pending to promote the exercise of research in other areas of health (Valle and Perales, 2016).…”

Scientific production of peruvian schools of Architecture: a bibliometric study

“…These academic institutions contribute to the scientific training of professionals involved in solving real problems that contribute to the social, economic, and technological development of a country. For this reason, the scientific evaluation of the university sector is essential to know its current state of contribution in a given field of knowledge (Escalante Cardoza and Ortiz Núñez 2021, p. 2; Roman-Gonzalez et al 2019).…”

Investigación formativa y producción científica del docente odontológico peruano

“…Un estudio realizado por Roman-González et al 15 determinó, al comparar la producción científica de las universidades peruanas, de acuerdo tanto con las publicaciones indizadas en Scopus como con el tamaño de las instituciones en cuestión, que la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia y la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos ocupan, en ese orden, los tres primeros puestos dentro de la producción científica universitaria peruana. Se debe destacar que son el segundo y tercer puesto los que priman en la investigación relacionada a las ciencias de la salud.…”