Psychological Research Collaboration and Visibility in Iberoamerica

Abstract

The phenomenon of collaboration is an increasing trend in many fields of science, including that of psychology. In Iberoamerican psychology, collaboration occurs on a local and international level. The aim of the study was to evaluate the levels of collaboration in Iberoamerica, using as a baseline the level of worldwide collaboration in psychology in 2012. We collected data from the Scopus database and analyzed it by cluster distribution. Analysis of the sample found within-country collaboration prominent among Iberoamerican psychologists. Findings indicated that in Iberoamerica there is significantly less global collaboration than in other regions, although Iberoamerican scientists are receptive to the idea and acknowledge its potential. Keywords: Scientific production, psychology, collaboration, Iberoamerica Resumo O fenômeno da colaboração é uma tendência em crescimento em muitos campos da ciência, incluindo a psicologia. Na psicologia ibero-americana a colaboração vem ocorrendo em nível regional e internacional. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar níveis de colaboração em Ibero-América, usando como linha de base o nível de colaboração mundial em psicologia nos anos de 2012. Os dados foram coletados da base Scopus e analisado pela distribuição de dados segundo seu grau de agrupamento (cluster). A análise mostrou que a colaboração entre ibero-americanos é maior dentro dos respectivos países e menor em nível global. Mesmo assim, destaque-se que cientistas ibero-americanos são receptivos a ideia de internacionalização e reconheçam seu potencial.

Cooperación en Latinoamerica: red científica de psicología

“…The importance of organizing and disseminating scientific knowledge generated in developing countries, especially in Psychology, is discussed by Sampaio (2009). These findings do not follow some recommendations in terms of visibility so that an increase in the number of researches and institutions coauthoring projects increase the likelihood of being cited and create a higher chance of keeping cooperation networks (López-López et al, 2015).…”

“…In the present investigation, data also suggested Spain and the USA as the two most important countries, and Portugal was the third most representative one, though. Nevertheless, data suggests that the same trends to cooperate inside the American continent or inside Iberoamerica were present (López-López et al, 2015).…”

“…Some studies have indicated that cooperation is still little (Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Vargas-Quesada, HassanMontero, González-Molina & Moya-Anegón, 2009; López-López et al, 2015). However, the importance of research cooperation has already been stressed by different authors, as well as its advan-tages to those who cooperate, such as visibility and number of citations, as well as a mechanism to neutralize potential methodological errors, biases in analyses or openly fraudulent behaviors (Acevedo-Triana, López-López, & Cárdenas, 2014).…”

“…In Brasil, Vanz (2009) found that 30.3 % of the scientific papers published between 2004 and 2006 were based on international cooperation and the main scientific partners were the USA, France, Great Britain and Germany. This pattern of cooperation may be related to the need for better visibility, research quality or impact factors, what becomes highly attractive for researchers within institutions, universities or laboratories and may contribute to improve their rating processes of international recognition (Alzate-Medina, 2008; López-López, Moya-Anegón, Acevedo-Triana, García & Silva, 2015).…”

Las revistas de psicología en Chile: historia y situación actual

“…Algunos países como Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia y México desarrollaron políticas específicamente diseña-das para alentar el mejoramiento de la visibilidad de las producciones y la indexación de las revistas de psicología (Alonso Olivas-Ávila, Musi-Lechuga, Quevedo-Blasco y Luna-Hernández, 2012; Ávila-Toscano, Marenco-Escuderos y Madariaga, 2014;Bizarro, 2006;Fin Motta, Gomes de Castro y Pizzinato, 2015;Gamba, Packer y Meneghini, 2015; Gómez-Morales, Jaraba-Barrios, Guerrero-Castro y López-López, 2012;López-López, de Moya Anegón, AcevedoTriana, Garcia, y Silva, 2015;Vera-Villaroel, López López, Lillo y Silva, 2011).…”