Sandra Edith Miguel

• PhD
• Researcher at National University of La Plata

Resumen: El objetivo de esta ponencia es identificar el comportamiento de los paleontólogos argentinos al establecer en qué revistas generalistas de paleontología publican sus documentos, comparándolo con el de colegas de otros países. Para el lapso 2012-2022, se seleccionaron los países con revistas generalistas de paleontología, pertenecientes a...

Scientometrics has traditionally examined place in terms of author affiliations and, as such, has tended to overlook the more detailed use of geographical data in scholarly publications to design indicators of the scientific literature. This study constructs a comprehensive framework to formalize and unify the Scientometrics analysis of places (Spa...

Resumen: El objetivo de esta contribución es estudiar la situación de las mujeres en la ciencia argentina, específicamente en el campo de la paleontología, a partir de un estudio cuantitativo de género basado en la distribución de las firmas de los documentos publicados en la Revista del Museo de La Plata durante el lapso 1930-2022. Por medio del m...

El objetivo de esta ponencia es evaluar la congruencia existente entre los indicadores bibliométricos del portal Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SCIJCR) cuando se aplican a revistas de diferentes disciplinas científicas. Las unidades de estudio fueron los 17 indicadores de SCIJCR. Parar el análisis se consideraron 35 revistas generalistas, 12 de...

Trece revistas generalistas de antropología, seleccionadas entre las listadas en el portal Scimago Journal and Country Rank, han sido estudiadas con una metodología bibliométrica. Los objetivos fueron: a) analizar las relaciones de similitud entre las revistas; b) analizar las relaciones de similitud entre los indicadores bibliométricos; y c) estab...

Son escasos los trabajos que, como éste, estudian la producción científica sobre un país o región objeto de investigación. Esta investigación centra su atención en el estudio de la producción científica sobre Argentina, delimitado por el conjunto de publicaciones científicas en los que el país (Argentina) es el tema o el alcance geográfico de las i...

Preferences of researchers and institutional/disciplinary practices in the dissemination and socialisation of research results. The objective of this work is to contribute to the knowledge of the practices and preferences of university researchers when they have to disseminate and socialize their publications in open access institutional repositori...

International collaboration in the creation of knowledge is changing the structural stratification of science, with implications for science policy. Analyses of collaboration in developing and emergent countries are of particular significance because initiatives are often the result of “research-for-aid” arrangements, generally based on North–South...

This study shows the presence of the community of university full time researchers of three Faculties of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina) in the local institutional repositories and the social network ResearchGate. The study describes and analyzes the volume and temporal coverage of the scientific production of the three communities...

Los objetivos de este trabajo son: (1) determinar el valor de las variables analizadas para discriminar la producción científica de los países; y (2) establecer las relaciones de similitud entre los países, con especial énfasis en la situación relativa de Argentina. Para el análisis se utilizó SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SCIJCR) que ofrece, a p...

Este estudio analiza las actitudes y percepciones sobre revistas de acceso abierto de los evaluadores de la carrera científica en Argentina, focalizándose en diferencias por rango de edad, áreas temáticas e instituciones de pertenencia. Los resultados muestran que los evaluadores mantienen opiniones y actitudes tradicionales tanto en la elección de...

This study aims to analyze the visibility of the journals that publish research on metric studies (MS) by using the impact indicators of these journals, present at the databases Scopus and Web of Science (WOS). The selected journals represent the domain metric studies in the SciELO database and are present in the other databases, which were taken f...

Busca conhecer as motivações e dificuldades dos discentes do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito (PPGD) da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) para publicar em periódicos científicos. Desenvolve uma pesquisa qualitativa e exploratória e utiliza o questionário como instrumento de coleta de dados. Tem como população da pesquisa os discentes do Pro...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la evolución de la paleontología de los vertebrados en Argentina, tomando como fuente la revista Ameghiniana. Utilizando todos los documentos sobre paleontología de los vertebrados publicados en dicha revista en el período 1957-2014, se cuantificaron aspectos como el número de trabajos publicados, el número d...

International collaboration in the creation of knowledge is responsible to change the structural stratification of science having profound implications for the governance of science. Analysis of collaboration in Latin American and Caribbean countries is of particular significance, because initiatives are often the result of "research-for-aid" arran...

Recientes normativas sobre el contenido y forma de mencionarla afiliación institucional de los investigadores de dos de las principales instituciones públicas de investigación de Argentina (la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)obligan a reflexionar sobre problemas recurrentes y nuevas t...

This research aims to diachronically analyze the worldwide scientific production on open access, in the academic and scientific context, in order to contribute to knowledge and visualization of its main actors. As a method, bibliographical, descriptive and analytical research was used, with the contribution of bibliometric studies, especially the p...

This study explores the capacity of Latin America in the generation of scientific knowledge and its visibility at the global level. The novelty of the contribution lies in the decomposition of leadership, plus its combination with the results of performance indicators. We compare the normalized citation of all output against the leading output, as...

Materiales y métodos: El estudio utiliza el método bibliométrico y comprende el análisis cuantitativo de las publicaciones de autores de instituciones argentinas localizados en buscadores web como Google y Google Scholar, repositorios digitales especializados como E-LIS (E-Prints in Library and Information Science), bibliotecas digitales como SciEL...

Los objetivos de este trabajo son: (1) analizar las relaciones de similitud de los indicadores bibliométricos; y (2) estudiar el valor de estos para discriminar/agrupar revistas científicas. Como unidades de estudio se utilizaron los 15 indicadores brindados por SCImago Journal Rank (SCImagoJR), aplicados a las 11 revistas paleontológicas generalis...

El trabajo realiza una revisión de la literatura académica sobre altmetrías publicada en revistas internacionales indizadas en Scopus abarcando el período 2010-2014. En primer lugar se presenta un análisis bibliométrico con el objetivo de identificar el volumen de la producción, así como los principales autores, revistas, instituciones, y conceptos...

Local and global issues in the Argentinian scientific production in Scopus, 2008-2012. National and international dimensions of the research. Since the beginning of this century in Argentina scientific and technological policies show a clear interest in producing knowledge aimed at solving social, productive and environmental local problems. The bi...

Argentina´s patterns of publication in the humanities and social sciences were studied for the period 2003-2012, using the Scopus database and distinguishing the geographic realm of the research. The results indicate that “topics of national scope” have grown and gained international visibility. They can be broadly characterized as having Spanish a...

Since the beginning of this century in Argentina scientific and technological policies show a clear interest in producing knowledge aimed at solving social, productive and environmental local problems. The bibliometric field has been studying the scientific production in the different countries around the world, and there is a background that focus...

Resumen El objetivo general de esta investigación es conocer las características de la formación en investigación en las carreras de grado de las escuelas de Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información de las universidades nacionales argentinas. Con una aproximación metodológica cuanti y cualitativa se analizaron los programas de asignaturas con co...

This paper aims to observe and describe the bibliometric research picture in Argentina in the period between 1984 and 2012, based on analysis of the publications of argentine authors located in web search engines, subject repositories and regional and international databases. It interprets forms lining the items studied focusing attention on the fo...

En Argentina, las políticas nacionales de investigación de los últimos años manifiestan una clara orientación hacia temas y problemas sociales y productivos locales, en medio de tensiones hacia el interior de la comunidad científica y con los organismos de promoción y evaluación de la investigación entre la pertinencia y la excelencia de los result...

The main objective of this study is to figure out the volume and evolution of the Spanish scientific production in Psychology based in the data provided by the databases Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) and Scopus (Elsevier) during the years 2000-2009. It is proposed to determine which are the scientific journals used by most Spanish psychologists...

The objective of this work is to assess gender distribution differences in authorship of papers in the field of vertebrate paleontology published in the Argentine journal Ameghiniana from 1957 to 2011. The bibliometric method was used to analyze gender distribution and evolution of the signing authors, their productivity, geographical origin, autho...

The objective of this work is to assess gender distribution differences in authorship of papers in the field of Vertebrate Paleontology published in the Argentine journal Ameghiniana from 1957 to 2011. The bibliometric method was used to analyze gender distribution and evolution of the signing authors, their productivity, geographical origin, autho...

Se presenta un panorama de la situación y perspectivas del movimiento de Acceso Abierto en Argentina, situándola en el contexto internacional mundial y de América Latina. Se describe el estado y la evolución de las dos principales vías del OA (dorada y verde) desde el análisis de las revistas y de los repositorios como principales canales de public...

This perspective article presents an overview of the Open Access movement in Argentina, from a global and regional (Latin American) context. The article describes the evolution and current state of initiatives by examining two principal approaches to Open Access in Argentina: golden and green roads. The article will then turn its attention to: the...

Introduction: this paper studies the scientific production published by researchers at two argentine universities (National University of La Plata and National University of Rosario) in the discipline of medicine. Objective: to establish the volume and evolution of scientific production published in open access journals and in subscription journals...

Este trabajo presenta avances de investigación sobre el análisis de los patrones de publicación y colaboración seguidos por investigadores argentinos, en artículos publicados en de ciencias sociales, según sea el alcance temático-geográfico de las investigaciones: temas de alcance nacional u otros temas. Los resultados del trabajo se circunscriben...

Introduction: this paper studies the scientific production published by researchers at two argentine universities (National University of La Plata and National University of Rosario) in the discipline of medicine. Objective: to establish the volume and evolution of scientific production published in open access journals and in subscription journals...

The paper introduces the use of blockmodeling in the micro-level study of the internal structure of co-authorship networks over time. Variations in scientific productivity and researcher or research group visibility were determined by observing authors’ role in the core-periphery structure and crossing this information with bibliometric data. Three...

Bibliometric techniques and social network analysis are used to define the patterns of international medical research in Latin America and the Caribbean based on information available in the Scopus database. The objective was to ascertain countries' capacity to establish intra- and extraregional scientific collaboration. The results show that incre...

rea temática: Investigación en Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información Resumen: Se plantean algunas reflexiones en torno a la formación y la práctica de la investigación en Bibliotecología y Ciencia de la Información (ByCI) en las escuelas de Bibliotecología del MERCOSUR, en un intento por realizar un aporte al debate de la integración entre la...

The aim of present work attempts was to discover the opinions and habits of Argentinean researchers regarding open access publishing in four research fields: Medicine, Physics and Astronomy, Agriculture and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities. The study is based on the researchers’ responses to the SOAP (Study of Open Access Publ...

This work aims to determine and quantity the scientific production that researchers can deposit at institutional repositories. It applies a methodology based on the analysis of the access models of journals used by researchers to publish their articles to estimate the actual and potential access to scientific research outputs. It includes the case...

Objective: The present study offers a novel methodological contribution to the study of the configuration and dynamics of research groups, through a comparative perspective of the projects funded (inputs) and publication co-authorships (output). Method: A combination of bibliometric techniques and social network analysis was applied to a case study...

This is a presentation of Institutional Repository, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Presentación a la comunidad académico-científica del repositorio institucional de la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

The Open Access in the scholarly communication is grouped into two areas referred to as gold and green roads. Some studies analyze the extent and magnitude of this phenomenon, but few show the effects in terms of impact and visibility. Our goal is to analyze these effects from the perspective of the economic model of the journals included in the da...

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the actual and potential access to scientific research outputs in a specific country based on an analysis of the access model of journals used by researchers to publish their articles. It includes a study of scientific production in Argentina from 2008 to 2010 in the following areas: Medicine, Physics a...

Objective: The present study offers a novel methodological contribution to the study of the configuration and dynamics of research groups, through a comparative perspective of the projects funded (inputs) and publication co-authorships (output). Method: A combination of bibliometric techniques and social network analysis was applied to a case study...

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the real and potential access to scientific research outputs in a specific country, based on an analysis of the access model of journals used by researchers to publish their articles. It includes a study of scientific production in Argentina from 2008 to 2010 in the following areas: medicine, physics an...

This study compared the coverage of journals, by country and topic, from Latin America and the Caribbean included in SciELO, RedALyC and SCOPUS. It measured the percentage of journals found in these sources in relation to those registered in the LATINDEX catalogue. It estimated the volume of scientific productivity recorded in the three sources men...

The last few years have seen the emergence of several open access (OA) options in scholarly communication, which can be grouped broadly into two areas referred to as gold and green roads. Several recent studies have shown how large the extent of OA is, but there have been few studies showing the impact of OA in the visibil-ity of journals covering...

Las revistas académico-científicas son uno de los principales canales de comunicación y difusión de los resultados de investigación. Sin embargo no todas tienen el mismo prestigio y grado de influencia en la comunidad científica. De su calidad y visibilidad dependen, en gran medida, las posibilidades de que un trabajo sea conocido, leído y citado....

Se presenta un avance de investigación para estimar el acceso abierto real y potencial en las prácticas de publicación de la comunidad científica argentina a partir del análisis del modelo de acceso de las revistas donde publican los investigadores. En esta primera etapa se estudia el campo de la medicina a partir de las publicaciones de 2008-2010...

In recent years a number of studies have focused on Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis and its political, social, and institutional repercussions. To date, however, no studies have analyzed its effects upon the country’s scientific system from a scientometric perspective, in terms of resources dedicated to scientific activity and the final output and...

Las revistas académico-científicas son uno de los principales canales de comunicación y difusión de los resultados de investigación. Sin embargo no todas tienen el mismo prestigio y grado de influencia en la comunidad científica. De su calidad y visibilidad dependen, en gran medida, las posibilidades de que un trabajo sea conocido, leído y citado....

The academic-scientific journals are one of the outstanding means of communication and diffusion of the investigation results. Nevertheless they don't have all the same prestige and degree of influence in the scientific community. The possibilities that a work is well-known, read and cited depend on its quality and visibility. The aim of this inves...

Improvement of the interfaces and search capacities of the opacs continues to be one of the main challenges for libraries, especially with regard to searching by subject. The visual interfaces can help with retrieval. This paper explores the combination of co-term analysis techniques with social networks for the generation of subject maps of collec...

The intellectual structure and main research fronts of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the National University of La Plata, Argentina is studied, based on the cocitation analysis of subject categories, journals and authors of their scientific publications collected in the Science Citation Index, CD-ROM version, for the period 1991–200...

Se muestra aquí la pertinencia y utilidad del análisis de co-citas como método de investigación en Biblioteco- logía y Ciencia de la Información (BCI), mediante un análisis bibliométrico y una revisión del contenido de los principales trabajos publicados sobre este tema. Se analiza el tamaño y evolución de la literatura, la tipolo- gía documental y...

The pertinence and Utility of co-citation analysis as a research method in Library and Information Science (LIS) are shown by means of bibliometric nd content analysis of the main works published on this topic. The size and evolution of the literature are analysed, as well as the documentary typology and the subject of the journals where the main c...

La diversidad temática y complejidad estructural de las universidades nacionales argentinas hacen que la identificación de sus perfiles científicos no resulte sencilla. En este estudio se realiza una aproximación metodológica para el análisis del perfil temático y patrones de colaboración de estos dominios científicos, a partir del estudio bibliomé...

The thematic diversity and structural complexity of the national universities of Argentine make more difficult the identification of its scientific profiles. This study aims to do a methodological approach for the analysis of the thematic profile and collaboration patterns of the argentinian universities, starting from the bibliometric study of the...

:This project intends to develop a methodological tool for the evaluation of collections of university libraries, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, and adapting the indicators to the context of the Argentinean and Latin American universities.

Ones studies the scientific production of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum (FCNyM), of the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, on the Science Citation Index CD-ROM (1991-2000) by means of bibliometric indicators relative to the size and evolution of the contributions, discipline profile and patterns of scientific collaborat...

In 1995 it was presented before the Commission of Labour Relations of the UNLP, a proposal of ideal structure of the Libraries of the Schools, which included an study of the current status of its personnel, a brief summary of the concept, mission and objectives of what academic library shold be a and a description of positions and functions. On the...

The documente analyses the situation and features for the development of a plan of impovement in the quality of the ressources of the Library of the School of Natural Sciences and Museum belonging to the National University of La Plata, Argentina

This work presents a scientometric analysis of Argentine scientific domain for period 1990-2005.