Cooperation in the Latin American behavioral sciences: Motivation, evaluation and difficulties

Garcia, Agnaldo; López‐López, Wilson; Acevedo-Triana, César; Bucher-Maluschke, Júlia Sursis Nobre Ferro

doi:10.1016/j.sumpsi.2016.08.002

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“…Kliegl and Bates (2011) indicate that the levels of collaboration in the top psychology journals reached their peak in the 1990s. Although the present observation window begun in the 2000s, there is a similar increasing trend in collabo-ration, which has been pointed out in other studies and is supported by the cooperation and previous reports on psychology journals in Colombia (Ávila-Toscano, Marenco-Escuderos, & Madariaga Orozco, 2013;Garcia et al, 2016Garcia et al, , 2017Guerrero & Jaraba, 2009;López-López, de Moya Anegón, Acevedo-Triana, Garcia, & Silva, 2015). Although the data are not presented in this study, this collaboration has been found to be going through a change, moving from intra-institutional to national and international collaborations; as such, this category is necessary for the optimization of various kinds of resources.…”

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“…Accordingly, productivity analyses using a bibliometric approach allow areas of greater or lesser proximity to be identified, and, thus, the interdisciplinarity of knowledge (Heberger et al, 2010); furthermore, similar analyses have been conducted on cooperation between authors or types of research (Garcia, López-López, Acevedo-Triana, & Nogueira Pereira, 2017;Robayo-Castro, Rico, Hurtado-Parrado, & Ortega, 2016). This cooperation could be understood as joint efforts towards the common goal of scientific productivity (Garcia, López-López, Acevedo-Triana, & Bucher-Maluschke, 2016). One form of cooperation is publication co-authorship, which has been used to assess collaboration between researchers and contrasts with other forms of cooperation, such as joint research projects, development of regional associations, creation of academic events, and scholar exchanges (Garcia, Acevedo-Triana, & López-López, 2014).…”

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Productivity Analysis and Impact of Colombian Psychology Journals between 2000 and 2016

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The growing output of Colombian psychology journals over past decades leads to questions regarding the regional and international relevance and impact of their productivity. Considering the lack of recent efforts to assess the output of these journals across different information sources, the present study analyzed the production, collaboration, and impact of Colombian psychology journals between 2000 and 2016 using information from the following databases: Scopus, Scielo, Redalyc, and Journal Scholar Metrics. We analyzed 3915 articles published across 13 journals. A journal was included in the analysis if it was indexed in several of these databases, which allowed for multiple comparisons. We observed journals' diversification and growth across all the proposed indicators, with different degrees of visibility and quality depending on the criteria used. Although all the journals generally showed similar regional and international results, some excelled across indicators, which in turn challenges other journals to improve their scores. We conclude that Colombian production in psychology is visible on a regional level. Moreover, journals need to increase some of the indicators so they can be compared with other regional and international open-access benchmarks, which is the model in which they were originally conceived.

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Productivity Analysis and Impact of Colombian Psychology Journals between 2000 and 2016

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“…Examples of bibliometric studies on the effects of linguistic and cultural proximity are: Luukkonen et al (1992) with the analysis of collaboration patterns among the top-30 countries by the level of publication activity in 1981-1986Landry et al (1996) for the case of a questionnaire for 1556 professors in Quebec universities about research collaboration; Bassecoulard et al (2000) for the analysis of collaboration of European countries with Japan and the USA; Zitt et al (2000) for the case of research collaboration among France, Germany, Japan, UK and USA; Larivière et al (2006) for the analysis of collaboration practices of Canadian researchers in different fields of science; Acosta et al (2010) for the case of interregional research collaboration in European countries). The most recent examples of studies on the effects of cultural and linguistic factors on research collaboration are: Garcia et al (2016)and Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al (2017.…”

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An investigation of impact of research collaboration on academic performance in Italy

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The aim of this paper is to investigate theoretically and empirically the impact of research collaborations on the scientific performance of Italian academic institutions. Data are derived from the international Scopus and Web of Science databases. We consider both quantity (the number of publications made in collaboration) and quality indicators from different databases (using indexes such as IF5Y (5-year impact factor of the journal, Web of Science), SJR (SCImago Journal Rank-key integral indicator of the quality of journals, Scopus), IPP (Impact per Publication, Scopus), AIS (Article Influence Scores, Web of Science), H-index (Google Scholar Hirsch-index metric) to evaluate the Italian case of scientific research. To this end, we develop a theoretical and empirical model to consider endogeneity of explanatory variables, the generalized method of moment estimation. The results suggest that international collaborations have a higher impact on the research quality index in Italy.

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“…It also promotes higher productivity, in terms of both quantity and quality, and this makes it more likely that they will have better impact (Barboza-Palomino et al, 2021;García et al, 2015;Stallings et al, 2013). With increased cooperation, there is also a strengthening of activities aimed to address common and compatible goals amongst countries, nourishing collaborative research networks, improving access to international funding, and reinforcing the exchange of knowledge, resources and experiences that impact training programmes, researcher careers and research itself in the end (Catalá-López et al, 2014;García et al, 2016;. In line with this, UNE-SCO ( 2010) has stated that increasing the scientific capabilities of the developing world goes together with a larger number of international co-authorships.…”

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International Collaboration in Latin American Psychology Through the Analysis of Co-authorship Networks

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More than half of a century has passed since a paradigmatic change in the scientific endeavour took place: from science that advanced through the discursive interchange of geographically dispersed research findings and reflections, to highly interconnected and collaborative efforts that transcend borders (Wagner & Leydesdorff, 2005, Research Policy, 34:1608–1618). These new “invisible colleges” have been recognized since the end of the twentieth century as the network structures that emerge from co-authorships in scientific publications. These network structures that also inspire further production of knowledge, diffusion of concepts, methodologies and theories, circulation of scientific metaphors, and, above all, knowledge transfer, transformation, and appropriation. The expected impact of scientific collaboration on the consolidation of national capabilities for producing and absorbing scientific knowledge has resulted in the implementation of diverse instruments that aim at encouraging collaboration, particularly among peers from different countries. Psychology has also seen this increased international collaboration, and to evaluate its impact, we used bibliometric techniques on Latin American articles published between 2016 and 2020 in journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) under the subject categories related to psychology, to explore the characteristics and conditions of scientific collaboration in this corpus.

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Cooperation in the Latin American behavioral sciences: Motivation, evaluation and difficulties

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Productivity Analysis and Impact of Colombian Psychology Journals between 2000 and 2016

Productivity Analysis and Impact of Colombian Psychology Journals between 2000 and 2016

An investigation of impact of research collaboration on academic performance in Italy

International Collaboration in Latin American Psychology Through the Analysis of Co-authorship Networks

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