Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez

Spanish National Research Council | CSIC · Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos

In this study, we introduce a new literature-aging conceptual model to study the citation curve and discuss its implications. First, we improve the conceptual model by adding a period to describe the “death” of citations. Second, we offer a feasible operationalization for this conceptual model and implement a set of cross-discipline publications in...

Mapping and depicting the structure, dynamics and national specialisation profiles of scientific fields at the country level affords a better understanding of national developments and changes in a given field, particularly when these changes may serve as an aid in decision-making with regard to research management. This article looks at the cognit...

Literature obsolescence has been widely studied in scientometrics. Yet, most existing research has studied a set of publications (e.g., those in a certain discipline or a certain journal; the macro-level analyses) instead of each individual publication (e.g., the micro-level analyses). Among micro-level analyses, Bailón-Moreno et al. (2005) propose...

The evolution of the patterns of collaborative strategies plays an important role in the social construction of science to design efficient research policies and to support the production of knowledge. As the international research landscape is clearly undergoing continued structural change, we aim to analyze dynamics in collaboration strategies/pa...

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 paper presents a large-scale document-level comparison of two major bibliographic data sources: Scopus and Dimensions. The focus is on the differences in their coverage of documents at two levels of aggregation: by country and by institution. The main goal is to analyze whether Dimensions offers as good new opportunities for bibliometric analy...

Responsible indicators are crucial for research assessment and monitoring. Transparency and accuracy of indicators are required to make research assessment fair and ensure reproducibility. However, sometimes it is difficult to conduct or replicate studies based on indicators due to the lack of transparency in conceptualization and operationalizatio...

Comparing distinct dimensions of diversity and author order in publications could improve the understanding of collaborative work and help to identify opportunities for and risks of evaluation of collaborative work in different scientific career stages. Thus, the aim of this paper is to better understand the contextual dynamics of evaluating collab...

Author co-citation analysis (ACA) is a commonly used method to map knowledge domains and depict scientific intellectual structures. Although all authors’ information has been considered in previous studies, ACA does not distinguish credits of different collaborators within a team. Authors’ sequence in a publication illustrates their contributions a...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar los patrones de colaboración de la producción científica argentina de agroindustria de acuerdo con el alcance geográfico de la investigación, es decir, temas dirigidos a lectores nacionales y temas que van más allá de la frontera nacional recogida en la base de datos Scopus para el periodo 2007-2016. El com...

Responsible indicators are crucial for research assessment and monitoring. Transparency and accuracy of indicators are required to make research assessment fair and ensure reproducibility. However, sometimes it is difficult to conduct or replicate studies based on indicators due to the lack of transparency in conceptualization and operationalizatio...

This paper analyses the influence of a Brazilian institution delivering the corresponding author on its scientific citation impact, distinguishing between its collaborative papers with foreign institutions and those resulting from national collaboration. We retrieved from Scopus database a total of 607,454 Brazilian documents for all 443 Brazilian...

Proper field delineation plays an important role in scientometric studies, although it is a tough task. Based on an emerging and interdisciplinary field nanoscience and nanotechnology– this paper highlights the problem of field delineation. First we review the related literature. Then, three different approaches to delineate a field of knowledge we...

In scientometrics, it is critical to investigate the patterns of scientific collaboration and how these patterns result in different impacts. In this research, we investigate the relationship between the sequence of authors in the publication bylines and the diversity of their collaborators. The diversity of collaborators is quantified with two dim...

This paper analyses the influence of a Brazilian institution delivering the corresponding author on its scientific citation impact, distinguishing between its collaborative papers with foreign institutions and those resulting from the national collaboration. We retrieved from the Scopus database a total of 607,454 Brazilian documents for all 443 Br...

National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings and cultures. Nations do not have equal opportunities to access the global scientific market, and therefore, often seek out international partners with complementary resourc...

Consejo nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica de Perú - CONCYTEC. Principales indicadores cienciométricos de la actividad científica peruana, hace un recuento de las tendencias claves en la ciencia y la tecnología en Perú. Mediante los últimos datos e indicadores disponibles, estudia temas relevantes para el desarrollo del país,...

Mediante science mapping, se muestra la visualización de la estructura intelectual de la inteligencia artificial, a nivel mundial. Se identifican sus principales líneas de investigación a partir de las citas de sus trabajos, como interactúan entre sí, mediante la detección de los nodos con un alto grado de centralidad de betweenness o intermediació...

Proper field delineation plays an important role in scientometric studies, although it is a tough task. Based on an emerging and interdisciplinary field-nanoscience and nanotechnology-this paper highlights the problem of field delineation. First we review the related literature. Then, three different approaches to delineate a field of knowledge wer...

This study explores the characteristics of scientific activity patterns through co-author affiliations to obtain new insights into interdisciplinary research. To classify the interdisciplinarity in research, we explored and compared two different approaches: the diversity of disciplines reflected in the listed affiliations of the authors and the di...

This study compares the flows of mobile researchers and the number of publications in international collaboration within the context of scientific and economic capacities. The goal is to identify the convergence or discrepancy of countries in mobility and collaboration and determine the positions and relative influence of countries in both processe...

This study explores the international profiles in collaboration and mobility of countries included in the so-called “travel bans” implemented by US President Trump as executive order in 2017. The objective of this research is to analyze the exchange of knowledge between countries and the relative importance of specific countries in order to inform...

“Smart specialization” allows one to identify national strengths and weaknesses within research fields and establish priorities accordingly. It may be a useful strategy for building scientific capacity in developing and peripheral countries. The objective of this paper is to characterize the scientific output and specialization of the most producti...

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...

Since the discovery of the promising properties of graphene, research in the field has attracted numerous grants and sponsors, leading to an exponential rise in the number of papers and applications. This article presents a global map of graphene research and its intellectual structure, drawn using the terms of more than 50,000 documents extracted...

This study presents a preliminary comparison of networks of international collaboration and mobility. Using affiliation data from scientific publications, we analyse the structural differences in the two networks and the role of countries. The results show that researchers collaborate internationally to a much higher degree than they become interna...

This study provides a preliminary analysis of the international profiles in collaboration and mobility using the seven countries indicated in the US executive order of January 27, 2017. The objective of this research is to analyze the flow of knowledge between countries and the relative importance of specific countries in order to inform evidence-b...

El Consorcio Nacional de Recursos de Información Científica y Tecnológica (CONRICYT) de México, tiene como propósito proveer de recursos de información especializada a instituciones públicas de educación superior federales y estatales, así como a instituciones particulares de educación superior, centros públicos de investigación, institutos naciona...

The aim of this paper is to make manifest the intellectual and cognitive structure of nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST) by means of visualization techniques. To this end, we used data from the Web of Science (WoS), delimiting the data to the category NST during the period of 2000–2013, retrieving a total of 198,275 documents. Through direct auth...

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...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to visualize the structure of SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) coverage of the extensive citation network of Scopus journals, examining this bibliometric portal through an alternative approach, applying clustering and visualization techniques to a combination of citation-based links. Design/methodology/appr...

This paper presents a comparative benchmarking of scientometric indicators to characterize the patterns of publication and research performance at the country level, in a specific field (nanoscience and nanotechnology) during the period 2003–2013. The aim was to assess how decisive collaboration may be in attaining a sound level of scientific perfo...

Cuba has developed a biopharmaceutical sector that involves some of the country’s most relevant scientific institutions. Despite the severe constraints on resources resulting from the U.S. embargo, the results achieved by this sector have contributed to put the country’s health indicators at the same level of high-income nations. Recently, the crea...

Comparative benchmarking with bibliometric indicators can be an aid in decision-making with regard to research management. This study aims to characterize scientific performance in a domain (Public Health) by the institutions of a country (Cuba), taking as reference world output and regional output (other Latin American centers) during the period 2...

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...

Based on documents filed in the Scopus database between 1999 and 2007, this paper identifies, displays, and analyzes the main structures of scientific collaboration by authors in the library and information sciences in Spain. We apply techniques of similarity, techniques of social network analysis, like K-core, bibliometric procedures, such as auth...

Objective: to characterize the Cuban pattern of scientific communication in public health in Scopus database on the basis of the output and collaboration patterns and their influence on the impact of publications. Methods: bibliometric indicators of output, visibility and collaboration taken from SCImago Institutions Rankings and SCImago Journal an...

Cuban scientific output is analyzed for the period 2003-2011, in Scopus database. Based on a set of bibliometric indicators, we try to shed light on the evolution of the volume of scientific output in Cuban and foreign journals, and its distribution and visibility by quartiles. Also analyzed is the citation per document received, broken down by lan...

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...

This study characterizes the volume and visibility of Latin American scientific output in the area of Public Health, through a combined analysis of bibliometric, socioeconomic and health indicators of the top 10 Latin American producers of documents. The information was obtained from the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) portal, based on Scopus d...

Objective: to characterize the Cuban pattern of scientific communication in public health in Scopus database on the basis of the output and collaboration patterns and their influence on the impact of publications. Methods: bibliometric indicators of output, visibility and collaboration taken from SCImago Institutions Rankings and SCImago Journal an...

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...

Este estudio presenta una radiografía que permite diagnosticar el estado actual de la investigación científica chilena, e identificar brechas que ayuden a diseñar nuevas políticas públicas que sitúen a la actividad científica como un agente que otorga un creciente valor a la sociedad y colabora en resolver los desafíos país.

L'enfocament principal d'aquest informe elaborat per Scimago, una de les principals fonts d'informació estadística, se centra en el sistema de producció científica de Catalunya i la seva relació amb l'Estat espanyol i amb el món. L'estudi conté un conjunt d'indicadors de macroanàlisi basada en comparacions amb altres comunitats autònomes; una anàli...

El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la evolución del volumen y la visibilidad de la producción científica cubana en Salud Pública y en Medicina para determinar si siguen los mismos patrones de comunicación, y recomendar buenas prácticas de publicación. Se aplicaron indicadores bibliométricos de volumen, visibilidad y colaboración extraídos del...

En los últimos años, los estudios bibliométricos se han convertido en un instrumento fundamental de análisis en los países más desarrollados porque ayudan a mejorar la gestión de la política científica y tecnológica. Los indicadores bibliométricos también han sido incorporados a la evaluación de la actividad científica y de las publicaciones elabor...