Concentración y desigualdad científica en América Latina y el Caribe a principios del siglo XXI: un estudio cienciométrico

Santin, Dirce Maria; Caregnato, Sônia Elisa

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“…Generally speaking, the results reveal that Latin America has enhanced its representativeness in Nursing as compared to the previous decades and, in turn, it explains why some LATAM countries have climbed their positions in different rankings ( Santin, 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 89%

Differences in scientific collaboration and their effects on research influence: A quantitative analysis of nursing publications in Latin America (Scopus, 2005–2020)

Saldaña

Castañeda-Rodriguez²,

Perianes‐Rodríguez³

2022

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Differences in scientific collaboration and their effects on research influence: A quantitative analysis of nursing publications in Latin America (Scopus, 2005–2020)

Saldaña

Castañeda-Rodriguez²,

Perianes‐Rodríguez³

2022

Heliyon

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“…A recent study indicates that the most scientifically productive countries in Latin America are, from highest to lowest, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile [18]. With regard to only Ecology, said productivity is ordered in the same decreasing sequence, but it is somewhat reversed when the data are expressed by number of ecologists per million inhabitants [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

World-level ecologists in Chile: Oldtimers, newcomers, and the bypassed

Rau

Jaksic

2022

Rev. Chil. de Hist. Nat.

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Background A team of 3 scientometrists led by John Ioannidis published in 2020 an extensive and updated database (ca. 6.9 million researchers in 22 disciplines and 176 sub-disciplines), ordering them according to a composite bibliometric index that measures their whole trajectory (career-long) impact and their annual impact at year 2019. They reported the top 100,000 scientists (1.45% across all disciplinary fields) or the top 2% of each subfield discipline, thus publishing the ranking of ca. 150,000 researchers worldwide. Methods and findings We filtered that information for the disciplinary and sub-disciplinary areas corresponding to Ecology and identified a total of 14 ecologists with residence in Chile that appear in either of those two worldwide rankings. We report their measured productivity as both whole trajectory (career-long) and as annual impact at year 2019. We attribute their high registered productivity to their training at the doctoral level in prestigious foreign universities, their academic positions in internationally recognized Chilean universities, and their participation in state-funded research centers of scientific excellence. Exceptions to the rule are presented. Conclusions The 14 ecologists identified with the scientometric algorithm proposed by Ioannidis and coworkers include, but are not restricted, to the most cited ecologists in Chile. We put forth possible reasons for some puzzling omissions from these rankings.

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“…Based on first authors who published in journals indexed by the Web of Science database, the four most scientifically productive Latin American countries in 2017 were: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Chile, in decreasing order, together accounting for 9.3% of the world production [1]. A more current study [2] shows that the descending sequence is now: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. Here, we study the scientific productivity of these four countries on a worldwide comparison, based on the results of the recent review paper by Ioannidis et al [3], wherein these authors reported a database built with an extensive sample of ca.…”

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Are Latin American ecologists recognized at the world level? A global comparison

Rau

Jaksić

2021

Rev. Chil. de Hist. Nat.

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Background Ioannidis et al. (2020) reported a standardized estimate of scientific productivity obtained from a worldwide database of 6,880,389 scientists who published at least 5 papers picked up by the Scopus database, and elaborated a ranking of ca. 120,000 scientists by both whole trajectory (career-long) impact and their current impact at year 2019. The goal of our paper is to contextualize Latin American ecologists’ contribution at the world level based on the four most scientifically productive countries in the region. Methods and findings Ioannidis et al. (2020) proposed a composite index that is the sum of six scientometric indicators: (1) The number of allocites, (2) the h index, (3) a per capita corrected version of h, (4) the allocites received as single author, (5) those received as single + first author, and (6) those as single + first + last author. We selected data for ecologists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico and comparatively analyzed their productivity according to the proposed index. We also compared these data with those obtained from a global sample of the top ecologists worldwide. Conclusions Based on Ioannidis et al.’s proposition to evaluate scientific productivity we extract three lessons: (1) It does not pay to publish many papers; what counts is the number of allocites (i.e., self-citations do not add up). (2) Either be single, first, or last author; it does not pay to be in the middle of an authorship line. (3) Even worse it is to be among many co-authors because the proposed index allocates credits on a per capita basis.

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Concentración y desigualdad científica en América Latina y el Caribe a principios del siglo XXI: un estudio cienciométrico

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Differences in scientific collaboration and their effects on research influence: A quantitative analysis of nursing publications in Latin America (Scopus, 2005–2020)

Differences in scientific collaboration and their effects on research influence: A quantitative analysis of nursing publications in Latin America (Scopus, 2005–2020)

World-level ecologists in Chile: Oldtimers, newcomers, and the bypassed

Are Latin American ecologists recognized at the world level? A global comparison

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