Julián D. Cortés

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• PhD Engineering
• Principal professor at Universidad del Rosario

Management and business-related research (MBR) exhibits a disciplinary dissension path and a lack of cumulative knowledge development. This study aims to find and discuss evidence of MBR dissension and to identify intellectual/methodological bridges as potential pillars for cumulative knowledge development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)....

A well-established agenda on the research output, impact, and structure of global scientific elites such as Nobel Prize laureates has generated interest in the scientific elites from developing countries. However, this topic has not been investigated in detail. This study, first, deploys science mapping techniques to provide a comprehensive analysi...

In which research fields is industry involved with research institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? To shed light on this question, we applied bibliographic coupling to 13,000+ research articles and 500,000+ references indexed in Scopus for 1996–2021 as a means of determining the research fronts in which LAC-based research institutio...

Each government has priorities for science, technology and innovation policy/ies (STIP). How to identify the changing or reinforced STIP research priorities induced by government transitions? This study aims to unveil the STIP changing structure at the public funding research call contents in Colombia from 2007 to 2022, applying a co-word and netwo...

Mission statements are one of the most used strategic planning conceptual and communication tools. In this data challenge, students will assess this strategic planning tool through a series of hands-on exercises in a fictional, though plausible, scenario for an early-career professional. Essentially, students will have a central role in the strateg...

Background: Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) in Colombia has evolved over time, yet significant gaps remain in its alignment with national research structures and the scientific workforce. While scientific production has increased, there is still a disconnect between policy priorities and the realities of the research community. Ob...

Energy demands are expected to grow worldwide, from 630 exajoules in 2022 to 670 by 2030 [7]. A single exajoule can power an average US household for 26.1 million years [4]. Meeting energy needs and addressing the environmental impact of clean energy systems poses complex challenges. Hydropower affects water and nearby ecosystems, solar and wind po...

Academic mobility plays a crucial role in fostering intellectual collaboration, knowledge transfer, and the internationalization of science. While existing research has extensively examined international scientific migration, national mobility, particularly in middle and low-income countries, remains underexplored. This study investigates the relat...

This study focuses on measuring the disciplinary diversity within Colombian social science (SS) research groups, a context that has received limited attention in existing literature dominated by analyses of STEM disciplines in high-income countries. Using data from MinCiencias' national assessments (2013-2021), we applied the DIV diversity index to...

Gender equality remains a central issue in global scientific development, with women comprising approximately 30% of the global research workforce. Addressing disparities in gender representation in science teams is vital to fostering inclusivity and driving scientific innovation. This study investigates the relationship between gender composition...

Social science (SS) research groups play a critical role in advancing interdisciplinary knowledge within Colombia’s evolving scientific landscape. However, the interplay between the disciplinary diversity of research groups members and their scientific status remains underexplored. Existing studies often focus on high-income countries or STEM field...

2025 R&D Management Conference: Innovation & Biodiversity — Track proposal Sustainable Synergies: Innovation Ecosystems and Biodiversity for a Sustainable Future The relationship between innovation ecosystems and biodiversity presents both opportunities and challenges, as these systems are fundamentally intertwined. Achieving synergies between th...

Public research funding is central to build human capital and scientific infrastructure for development [1, 2]. Around USD 2.47 trillion were invested in R&D in 2022, where Europe-US accounts for over a half [3, 4]. In comparison, Latin America's Research and Development (R&D) expenditure is ~0.7% of GDP and countries such as Colombia invest ~0.2%...

The juglar vallenato was a wonderer, traveling on the back of a mule from town to town across the Caribbean coastal region of Colombian, singings about love and nature. Are the modern Colombian researchers also the juglares of science? This study aims to identify patterns in Colombian researchers, examining their demographic aspects and disciplines...

This pilot study explores the diversity of science teams in Colombia, focusing on disciplinary expertise, country affiliations, and gender composition. Leveraging data from OpenAlex (April 2024 snapshot), the study categorizes team diversity into three factors: variety (disciplinary expertise), separation (country affiliations), and disparity (gend...

The academic age (AA) measures a researcher’s experience in producing scientific knowledge. It has an impact on national and institutional policies, including career incentives and funding. However, there have been few studies conducted in global south countries. Our aim was to compare and refine different AA approaches for the Colombian scientific...

Various aspects of academic careers are studied using academic age as a proxy for the chronological age. The limitation of this metric is that it does not consider a wide range of scientific workforce outputs, since it only focuses on scientific publications. This study aims to extend understanding of the scientific workforce by amplifying the comp...

STIP (science, technology, and innovation policy/es) strive to give direction and incentives to the formation and specialization of the scientific workforce. How to draw the linkage between both factors of the national STI system? Here we explore the correlation between highly strategic research areas/fields supported by STIP and the scientific wor...

Patentometrics in middle and low-income countries is an emergent field. Here, we propose a methodological appraisal which combines text mining (lexical similarity) and network science (bipartite network) to associate the inventive structure of research and patents by matching classification standards in a middle-income country, Colombia, as a pilot...

Patentometrics studies in middle-low-income countries is an emergent field. This study aims to unveil the inventive structure of Colombia from 1983–2021 as a pilot case. Applying the co-word analysis network analysis to the IPC (International Patent Classification) subclasses of +2,900 patents granted to inventors/applicants with Colombian affiliat...

Research collaboration between the private sector and academia is one of the core aspects to solve complex problems through science, technology and innovation. Despite this societal relevance, we still lack insights about the research topics in which both sectors intersect their agendas, particularly in middle-low-income regions. To shed light on t...

Quantitative science studies have been used to facilitate the systematic analysis of the digital tide of literature over the last few decades. This chapter reviews two applications related to science mapping of scholarly communication. Science mapping includes visualisations to analyse potential relationships among people, organisations and concept...

STIP (science, technology, and innovation policy/es) affect how rules, methods and practices are designed and applied to develop basic or applied research within national borders. Literature on STIP has been fertile in multiple streams, such as theoretical/conceptual frameworks for improving STIP. This study built on the literature stream by unveil...

The mission statement (MS) is the most used organizational strategic planning tool worldwide. The relationship between an organization’s MS and its financial performance has been shown to be significantly positive, albeit small. However, the relationship between the ms and the macroeconomic environment and organizational innovation has not been inv...

This study estimates the relationship between macro and industry-sector economic factors, mission statements content, and the innovation-financial performance of cross-sectorial organizations. Results show that research-intensive organizations provide more complex mission statements, and those from the private sector that are simpler and financial-...

Mission statements (henceforth: missions) are strategic planning communication tools used by all types of organizations worldwide. Missions communicate an organization’s purpose, values, standards, and strategy. Research on missions has been prolific over the past 30 years, nevertheless several empirical gaps remain, such as single sector or countr...

The mission statement (MS) is used by all types of organizations worldwide. It expresses environmental factors, formulates goals and targets to be achieved, selects differentiated competencies, and identifies the resources needed to carry out and assess its primary activities. Over the past forty years, research on the relationship between the MS a...

The research agenda on global academic elites (e.g., those awarded the Nobel Prize) has overlooked academic awards and elites from developing countries and the public symbolic recognition of scientific elites by research awards. In this study, we examine the bibliometric features of individual researcher profiles of those participants who received...

This study estimates the relationship between macro and industry-sector economic factors, mission statements content, and the innovation-financial performance of cross-sectorial organizations. Results show that research-intensive organizations provide more complex mission statements, and those from the private sector that are simpler and financial-...

Governments and organizations recognize the need to revisit a mission-driven innovation amidst national and organizational innovation policy formulations. Notwithstanding a fertile research agenda on mission statements (hereafter mission(s)), several lines of inquiry remain open, such as crossnational and multisectorial studies and an examination o...

The mission statement(s) (MS) is one of the most-used tools for planning and management. Universities worldwide have implemented MS in their knowledge planning and management processes since the 1980s. Research studies have extensively explored the content and readability of MS and its effect on performance in firms, but their effect on public or n...

The research agenda on global academic elites (e.g., those awarded the Nobel Prize) has overlooked academic awards and elites from developing countries together with those who participate in such competitions, fail to win an award, but receive a special mention instead. In this study, we examine the bibliometric features of individual researcher pr...

There is an established agenda seeking to disentangle the relationship between journal articles’ title, keywords, or abstract attributes and their association with bibliometric performance. To date, however, there have been few comparative, benchmarking studies in MBR (management-business research), particularly between top-tier, mid-tier, and peri...

A well established agenda on the research output, impact, and structure of global scientific elites such as Nobel Prize laureates has generated interest in the scientific elites from developing countries. This study deploys science mapping techniques to provide a comprehensive analysis of the output, impact, and structure of the Colombian scientifi...

Research conducted by scientific elites (SE) pushes the frontiers of knowledge. However, studies on SE’s acknowledged by important awards or a cumulative advantage have focused mainly on developed countries. For instance, Nobel awardees or to be ranked among the most cited researchers worldwide. That leaves a substantial gap for understanding SE’s...

Esta ponencia presenta evidencia longitudinal sobre la colaboración académica institucional entre América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) y China en negocios y economía 1996-2019. Las coautorías institucionales fueron fertilizadas mediante su participación en proyectos globales relacionados con liderazgo. Las instituciones de cada región divergieron de su...

There is an established research agenda on dissecting an article's components and their association with a journal's prestige. However, journals' titles and their overview, aim and scope (i.e. journal's mission statement-JMS(s)) have not been investigated with the same diligence. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive outlook of titles and JMSs...

Trade and investment between developing regions such as China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are growing prominently. However, insights on crucial factors such as innovation in business and management (iBM) about both regions have not been scrutinized. This study presents the research output, impact, and structure of iBM research publish...

Research on innovation and sustainability is prolific but fragmented. This study integrates the research on innovation in management and business and STEM fields for sustainability in a unified framework for the case of developing countries (i.e., the Global South). It presents and discusses the output, impact, and structure of such research based...

This study presents longitudinal evidence on the dissension of Management and Business Research (MBR) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It looks after intellectual bridges linking clusters among such dissension. It was implemented a coword network analysis to a sample of 12,000+ articles published by authors from LAC during 1998-2017. Struc...

Research on innovation and sustainability is prolific but fragmented. This study integrates the research on innovation in management and business and STEM fields for sustainability in a unified framework for the case of developing countries (i.e., the Global South). It presents and discusses the output, impact, and structure of such research based...

China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are now key players in global research production. This study presents a comparative study on research on innovation in management and decision sciences based on data from Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) between China and LAC. Findings showed significant differences between regions regarding journals’...

This study compares the lexical structure of articles titles and abstracts of two extremes in MB (management-business research): the AMJ (Academy of Management Journal), one of its most revered periodicals, and Espacios, the one that unveiled a structural problem in Latin-American MB. Results showed significant differences in the median of titles l...

The application of mathematics and statistical methods to scholarly communication has facilitated the systematic analysis of the modern digital tide of literature. This chapter reviews three of such applications: coauthorship, bibliographic coupling, and coword networks. It also presents an exploratory case of study for the knowledge circulation li...

This study presents longitudinal evidence on the dissension of Management and Business Research (MBR) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It looks after intellectual bridges linking clusters among such dissension. It was implemented a coword network analysis to a sample of 12,000+ articles published by authors from LAC during 1998-2017. Struc...

The institutional coauthorships between LAC and China were fertilized through their participation in global leadership related projects. The institutions in each region diverged from their initial position: LAC to the periphery and China to the center. Institutional communities have become more compact and their links with external communities have...

This study aims to comprehend the structure of RIBM (research on innovation in business and management) in China and LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean) via co-word and institutional co-authorship networks using Scopus' bibliographic data (1998- 2018). Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Social Network Analysis were applied. Public institutions...

Trade and investment between developing regions such as China and Latin America (LATAM) are growing prominently. However, insights on crucial factors such as innovation in business and management (iBM) about both regions have not been scrutinized. This study presents the research output, impact, and structure of iBM research published about China a...

China and Latin America (LATAM) are now key players in global research production. This study presents a comparative study on research on innovation in management and decision sciences based on data from Scopus and Web of Knowledge (WoS) between China and LATAM. Findings showed significant differences between regions regarding journals citation dep...

There is an established research agenda on dissecting an articles components, title and abstract readability and diversity, keywords, number references, and determining their association with bibliometrics performance. Yet, journals titles and their overview, aim and scope (i.e., journals mission statement, JMS(s) have not been investigated with th...

The mission statement(s) (MS) is one of the most-used tools for planning and management. Universities worldwide have implemented MS in their knowledge planning and management processes since the 1980s. Research studies have extensively explored the content and readability of MS and its effect on performance in firms, but their effect on public or n...

The mission statement (MS) is the most used organizational strategic planning tool worldwide. The relationship between an MS and an organizations financial performance has been shown to be significantly positive, albeit small. However, an MSs relationship to the macroeconomic environment and to organizational innovation has not been investigated. W...

Research on innovation and sustainability is prolific but fragmented. This study integrates the research on innovation in management and business and STEM fields for sustainability in a unified framework for the case of developing countries (i.e., the Global South). It presents and discusses the output, impact, and structure of such research based...

The study aims to generate a map of the knowledge based on the research on topics related to governance and security, risks, competition and cooperation for the FDDI (Fudan Development Institute) proceedings publishing project: 'Reflections on Governance: Security and Risks, Competition and Cooperation.' That mapping exercise would enable a broader...

A diferencia de los anteriores tres volúmenes del Atlas de la investigación en administración en América Latina, en donde se modelaron, analizaron y discutieron redes construidas a partir de información, este volumen presenta redes de colaboración o coautoría a nivel institucional. Se estudiaron las redes de coautoría en más de 17 000 artículos del...

Este documento presenta el tercer volumen del Atlas de la investigación en administración en América Latina. Se empleó la técnica de coocurrencia de palabras (CP) o co-word analysis a una muestra de más de 17 000 artículos del campo de negocios, administración y contabilidad indexados en la base de datos bibliográfica Scopus publicados por autores...

Resumen Los mapas de ciencia (science mapping) son empleados para cartografiar las fronteras y pilares del conocimiento. Este trabajo presenta un compendio de mapas de la investigación en administración en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) para el período 1998-2018. Se generó una visualización de redes para ALC (2018-2014) y para cada uno de los pa...

Resumen Este documento presenta el segundo volumen del Atlas de la investigación en administración en América Latina. Se empleó la técnica de cocitaciones (CC) a una muestra de más de 17 000 artículos del campo de negocios, administración y contabilidad indexados en la base de datos bibliográfica Scopus publicados por autores de América Latina (AL...

Research on innovation for sustainability in developing countries (i. e., the Global South: gs) is crucial for the global development agenda. Previous research has contributed to establishing the relationship between sustainability and management and outlining fragmented insights on several research topics and industries. However, little is known o...

The business world is a voracious consumer of business media content. Research on business columnists has been focused mainly on the effects of columns’ content on stock prices and stock exchange performance indicators. In this study, we delve into the characteristics of business media and their development in terms of the readability and content o...

Research on business, management and accounting (BMA) in the past century has been overwhelming. Regardless of its significance, regions such as Ibero-America have been overlooked from exhaustive studies on bibliometrics in the subject of BMA. Here, a bibliometric outlook of the subject of BMA in Ibero-America using 19 variables was conducted by an...

Both China and Latin-America (LATAM) are now key players in the production of scientific publications among developing economies. A note published in the journal Nature in 2018, declared China as the largest source of research articles. By 2016, China published 426,000 studies (18,6%) indexed in Scopus, a citation database that incorporates 70 mill...

Research in the field of innovation in business, management, and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) has surpassed all expectations of its net output. Yet this digital tide suggests several concerns regarding its impact and both its established and emergent research topics at the individual, institutional, and country level. In this paper, an...

Mission statements (MSs) are one of the most widespread managerial practices. However, a deeper understanding of the relationship between MS’s characteristics and firms’ financial performance is still necessary. The vast majority of the research on this topic has been performed on companies of the global north, rather than global south. The present...

The production of knowledge stock is essential for the long-term growth of a nation. One component of knowledge stock is patents. The publication of patents, nevertheless, is unevenly distributed around the world. To better understand these inequalities in the context of a developing country such as Colombia, it is crucial to integrate historical i...

Purpose: To conduct a transnational study of universities' mission statements (MS) through content analysis by identifying characteristics related to language (e.g., number of words, the most and least frequently used words) and if those characteristics are related to universities' location, size, focus, research output, age band, and status. Desig...

After more than half a century of armed conflict, Colombia is moving towards a post-conflict period. National and regional strategies aimed to strengthen institutional capacities, promote productive entrepreneurship and reduce organized violence and crime, are crucial lines of action for the alleviation of current (and future) grievances among ex-c...

There has been considerable research on business, management, and accounting (BMA) over the past century. Amid this intellectual ocean, more recently disturbed by the digital tide, bibliometric methods are crucial to identifying leading authors and emerging research topics and calculating the impact of research. Although they are important, regions...

The Career Orientation Inventory model proposed by Edgar Schein is one of the most discussed methods for identifying individuals’ career orientations. However, there are several gaps related to its implementation for developing countries using factor analysis and digital open access data. We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis fo...

The Career Orientation Inventory model proposed by Edgar Schein is one of the most discussed methods for identifying individuals’ career orientations. However, there are several gaps related to its implementation for developing countries using factor analysis and digital open access data. We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis fo...

Three indexes were proposed and constructed based on seminal-conceptual definitions or international assessment standards, namely: 1) Institutional Strength Index; 2) Building Peace Index (based on Negative Peace Index and Positive Peace Index); and 3) Productive Entrepreneurship Index.

This paper presents an assessment of efficiency in the use of digital databases (DD) for scientific production in Colombian accredited universities in 2013. The methodology used was the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The number of DD and the number of tenured professors were used as input. The number of scientific publications indexed in Scopus w...

En el marco de la convocatoria No. 525 de 2011 del programa nacional de Jóvenes Investigadores e Innovadores “Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda” del Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación de Colombia (Colciencias) modalidad tradicional, se presentó el proyecto de investigación: “Evaluación del impacto de las Tecnologías de la Inf...

This study presents the results of the transparency and electronic transparency diagnosis conducted prior to the implementation of the second phase of the Organization of American States (OAS) Electronic Government program “Municipios Eficientes y Transparentes” (MuNet) in 28 municipalities of Panama. Through surveys based within descriptive and cl...

Se presenta una evaluación de eficiencia del uso de la información científico-tecnológica en las universidades acreditadas de Colombia para la producción de acervos y la consolidación de redes: dos resultados de la generación de Capital Intelectual. Los resultados demuestran un crecimiento sostenido en la producción de Capital Intelectual haciendo...

Se presenta una revisión del marco normativo sobre modernización del Estado y Gobierno Electrónico en Colombia desde 1995 hasta la fecha, y la evaluación de su despliegue bajo criterios internacionales empleando tres índices durante el período 2003-2012: a) El índice de Gobierno Electrónico de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas; b) El Networke...

Se presenta una revisión del marco normativo sobre modernización del Estado y Gobierno Electrónico en Colombia desde 1995 hasta la fecha y la evaluación de su despliegue bajo criterios internacionales empleando tres índices durante el período 2003-2012: i) El Índice de Gobierno Electrónico de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas; ii) El Networked...

Se presenta el diagnóstico de transparencia y transparencia electrónica realizado previamente a la implementación de la segunda fase del programa de Gobierno Electrónico “Municipios Eficientes y Transparentes” (MuNet) de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) en 28 municipios de Panamá. A través de encuestas descriptivas con respuestas cer...

The Information Technology and Communications (ICT) have taken a prominent place in the Knowledge Society. As a result of this phenomenon, the Public Sector is responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating policies that address this symbiosis of social and technological changes, and that in sense, integrate the potential of ICT to the func...

This document aims at presenting the results of the efficiency diagnosis executed in 26 municipalities of Panama during the implementation of the Electronic Government Program of the Organization of American States –oas– called “Municipios Eficientes y Transparentes –MuNet–”. This diagnosis was made in municipal governments to obtain an overview of...

This document aims at presenting the results of public participation diagnosis executed in 28 municipalities of Panama, during the implementation of the Electronic Government Program of the Organization of merican States - Oascalled: “Municipios Eficientes y Transparentes” –MuNet–. This diagnosis was made in municipal governments to obtain an overv...

Se presentan algunos avances en materia de educación superior desde 1998 cuando se llevó a cabo la primera conferencia mundial de su tipo por parte de la UNESCO hasta 2008.

El Gobierno Electrónico se ha posicionado como una estrategia de política internacional, implementada con el fin de incrementar la eficiencia, la transparencia y la participación ciudadana a través del uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC) en el sector público. En el caso colombiano, la modernización del Estado comenzó...

Este documento tiene el objetivo de presentar los resultados del diagnóstico de participación ciudadana realizado en 28 municipios de Panamá durante la implementación del programa de Gobierno Electrónico de la Organización de los Estados Americanos – OEA denominado Municipios Eficientes y Transparentes – MuNet. Este diagnóstico se efectuó en los Go...

Las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC) han tomado un lugar preponderante en la Sociedad del Conocimiento. Como resultado de este fenómeno, el sector público tiene la responsabilidad de diseñar, implementar y evaluar políticas que respondan esta simbiosis de cambios sociales y tecnológicos, y que a su vez integren el potencial...