Analysis of production and scientific visibility of Ecuador in the Andean context (2000-2013)

Authors

  • Patricio Álvarez-Muñoz El profesional de la información
  • Mario Pérez-Montoro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2015.sep.07

Keywords:

Scientific production, Databases, Higher education, Research assessment, International collaboration, SJR, Ecuador, Colombia, Perú, Latin America.D

Abstract

A quantitative analysis of the scientific production of Ecuador in the Andean context is provided for 2000-2013, using data provided by the SCImago journal & country rank (SJR). We identified the indicators of absolute production and growth rate, and used three indicators to evaluate visibility: absolute citation, cites per document and international collaboration. We concluded that 1) Ecuador enjoyed positive growth in scientific production during the study period, except in 2010 and 2011; 2) it rebounded at the end of the period analyzed; 3) half of the production was in the areas of agriculture and medicine, which therefore appeared as the main areas of national scientific development; and 4) the most productive area, agriculture, was also the most cited.

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Published

2015-09-24

How to Cite

Álvarez-Muñoz, P., & Pérez-Montoro, M. (2015). Analysis of production and scientific visibility of Ecuador in the Andean context (2000-2013). Profesional De La información, 24(5), 577–586. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2015.sep.07

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 5 (2015): Información cientí­fica

Section

Research articles

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