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Science in america latina: A comparison of bibliometric and scientific-technical indicators

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Abstract

Latin-American scientific achievement is generally under-represented in databases for a number of reasons pointed out in our study. In this paper we analyze Latin-American scientific production in terms of input (resources) and output (publications). The indicators used were: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economically active population (EAP), percentage of GNP destined to R+D, and total number of researchers dedicated to R+D. These indicators were subjected to bivariant analysis to determine the degree of correlation with the number of ISI publications.

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  1. Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Granada, Campus Cartuja, Granada, (Spain)

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  2. Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. Alcaraz y Alenda 1, Badajoz, (Spain)

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De Moya-Anegón, F., Herrero-Solana, V. Science in america latina: A comparison of bibliometric and scientific-technical indicators. Scientometrics 46, 299–320 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464780

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