OLIVA: The scientific production indexed in Latin America and the Caribbean. Disciplinary diversity, institutional collaboration, and multilingualism in SciELO and Redalyc (1995-2018)

Abstract

This article presents the results of the Latin American Observatory of Evaluation Indicators (OLIVA, its Spanish acronym) which works to raise the visibility of the scientific production indexed in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to enhance its value for research assessment. This study deals with the production published in open access by journals indexed in SciELO and Redalyc, based on a deduplicated database of a total of 908,982 documents and 2,591,704 authors. It highlights the magnitude of this production and describes its disciplinary diversity, as well as trends in national, regional, and international research collaboration. It also examines the publishers of the 1,720 journals that make up the database of journals from 15 countries and highlights the predominance of universities and public institutions in this regional circuit. The journals that operate with the APC model are analyzed, confirming a clearly lower influence of this model compared to what is observed in other continents, although Brazil is identified as the country with the greatest incidence of this practice in the region. Finally, collaboration between states in Brazil, analyzed with SciELO data, proves to be highly significant, strongly challenging the traditional interpretation of co-authorship among researchers from the same country as academic inbreeding. The study concludes that these journals show multi-scalar circulation, a linguistic diversity, and a disciplinary breadth that can very effectively serve the current needs of scholarly communication in times of open science. Spanish version: https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.2653

The Language Barrier as Part of Editorial Policies on Diversity and Inclusion

“…However, unlike the main international databases where English is predominant, in the OLIVA set there is a great linguistic diversity. Spanish and Portuguese predominate, and only 23.9% of the articles are written in English (Beigel et al, 2022). The same study also points out that some publications are failing to publish in Portuguese to publish only in English, which means a loss for multilingualism.…”

Ranking, reconocimiento y cargos por publicación (APC): criterios priorizados por investigadores del CONICET para elegir dónde publicar

“…Estas disciplinas sociales y humanísticas, entonces, se caracterizan por esas menciones al acceso abierto que son bastante menores en las otras áreas. Esto podríamos relacionarlo con el importante número de revistas de acceso abierto diamante disponibles para las ciencias sociales y humanas en América Latina (Khanna, Ball, Alperin & Willinsky, 2022), frente a una cantidad menor para otras disciplinas en donde incluso las revistas de acceso abierto cobran cada vez más APC (Beigel, Packer, Gallardo & Salatino, 2022).…”

Instrumentos De Evaluación en La Formación De Competencias Profesionales De Estudiantes Universitarios

“…Una vez definidos los criterios se eligieron dos bases de datos para iniciar con la búsqueda: (a) Scopus, mediante su buscador ScienceDirect, por ser una base de datos confiable, multidisciplinaria y con altos estándares de calidad (Pranckutė, 2021), y (b) Scielo, base de datos electrónica dedicada a publicar investigación de Latinoamérica y El Caribe (Beigel et al, 2022).…”