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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 author citation of these works, we identified their origins and the seminal papers, and through word co-occurrence extracted from the titles and abstracts, the main lines of research were identified. In view of both structures, we may affirm that NST is a young scientific discipline in constant expansion, needing time to establish its foundations but showing a strongly interdisciplinary character; its development is furthermore dependent upon knowledge from other disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, or material sciences. We believe that this information may be very useful for the NST scientific community, as it reflects a large-scale analysis of the research lines of NST and how research has changed over time in the diverse areas of NST. This study is moreover intended to offer a useful tool for the NST scientific community, revealing at a glance the main research lines and landmark papers. Finally, the methodology used in this study can be replicated in any other field of science to explore its intellectual and cognitive structure.
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Objetivo: caracterizar el patrón cubano de comunicación científica en salud pública en la base de datos Scopus a partir de los patrones de producción y colaboración y su influencia en el impacto de las publicaciones. Métodos: se aplicaron indicadores bibliométricos de producción, visibilidad y colaboración extraídos de los portales SCImago Institutions Rankings y SCImago Journal and Country Rank a partir de datos de Scopus, categoría Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, período 2003-2011. Resultados: el patrón de comunicación presentó una tendencia al incremento de la producción científica con un alto liderazgo de autores cubanos y escasa colaboración nacional e internacional. Este incremento no repercutió en un mayor impacto en la comunidad internacional; el 7,22 por ciento de los documentos aparecieron en revistas de alto impacto, y el 2,16 por ciento entre los documentos de excelencia. La producción de excelencia con liderazgo fue casi inexistente. El 75 por ciento de la producción se ubicó en revistas de bajo impacto (cuarto cuartil) y la mayoría en revistas nacionales. La producción en inglés representó menos del 30 percent del total y alcanzaron mayor impacto que los artículos en español. Conclusiones: se caracterizó el patrón de comunicación científica cubano en salud pública, donde la poca publicación en inglés, en revistas de alto impacto y la insuficiente colaboración nacional e internacional son factores que pudieran estar influenciando en el bajo impacto científico. Estos resultados pueden utilizarse como complemento de la evaluación de la investigación en salud pública en el marco de su décima función esencial(AU)
Objetive: 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 and Country Rank portals were used, according to Scopus database, in the Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health category in 2003-2011 period. Results: the communication pattern showed an increasing tendency of the scientific output, with great leadership of Cuban authors and poor national and international collaboration. This increase did not have a higher impact on the international community; 7.22 percent of documents were published in high impact journals and 2.16 percent were among excellence documents. The excellence output with leadership was almost non-existent. Seventy five percent of the output was seen in low impact journals (fourth quartile) and most of it in national journals. The English output accounted for less than 30 percent of the total amount but had higher impact than the Spanish articles. Conclusions: the pattern of Cuban scientific communication in public health was characterized, in which low number of English publications, of publications in high impact journals and poor national and international collaborations are factors that may influence on the low scientific impact. These results can be used to supplement the assessment of research in public health within the tenth basic function of this specialty(AU)
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Humans , Public Health , Databases as Topic , Bibliometrics , Collaboration Indicator , Essential Public Health Functions , CubaABSTRACT
Objetivo: caracterizar el patrón cubano de comunicación científica en salud pública en la base de datos Scopus a partir de los patrones de producción y colaboración y su influencia en el impacto de las publicaciones.Métodos: se aplicaron indicadores bibliométricos de producción, visibilidad y colaboración extraídos de los portales SCImago Institutions Rankings y SCImago Journal and Country Rank a partir de datos de Scopus, categoría Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, período 2003-2011.Resultados: el patrón de comunicación presentó una tendencia al incremento de la producción científica con un alto liderazgo de autores cubanos y escasa colaboración nacional e internacional. Este incremento no repercutió en un mayor impacto en la comunidad internacional; el 7,22 por ciento de los documentos aparecieron en revistas de alto impacto, y el 2,16 por ciento entre los documentos de excelencia. La producción de excelencia con liderazgo fue casi inexistente. El 75 por ciento de la producción se ubicó en revistas de bajo impacto (cuarto cuartil) y la mayoría en revistas nacionales. La producción en inglés representó menos del 30 por ciento del total y alcanzaron mayor impacto que los artículos en español.Conclusiones: se caracterizó el patrón de comunicación científica cubano en salud pública, donde la poca publicación en inglés, en revistas de alto impacto y la insuficiente colaboración nacional e internacional son factores que pudieran estar influenciando en el bajo impacto científico. Estos resultados pueden utilizarse como complemento de la evaluación de la investigación en salud pública en el marco de su décima función esencial(AU)
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 and Country Rank portals were used, according to Scopus database, in the Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health category in 2003-2011 period.Results: the communication pattern showed an increasing tendency of the scientific output, with great leadership of Cuban authors and poor national and international collaboration. This increase did not have a higher impact on the international community; 7.22 percent of documents were published in high impact journals and 2.16 percent were among excellence documents. The excellence output with leadership was almost non-existent. Seventy five percent of the output was seen in low impact journals (fourth quartile) and most of it in national journals. The English output accounted for less than 30 percent of the total amount but had higher impact than the Spanish articles.Conclusions: the pattern of Cuban scientific communication in public health was characterized, in which low number of English publications, of publications in high impact journals and poor national and international collaborations are factors that may influence on the low scientific impact. These results can be used to supplement the assessment of research in public health within the tenth basic function of this specialty(AU)
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Bibliometrics , Collaboration Indicator , Databases as Topic , Health Research Evaluation , Public Health , Cuba , Essential Public Health FunctionsABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: In the greater framework of the essential functions of Public Health, our focus is on a systematic, objective, external evaluation of Latin American scientific output, to compare its publications in the area of Public Health with those of other major geographic zones. We aim to describe the regional distribution of output in Public Health, and the level of visibility and specialization, for Latin America; it can then be characterized and compared in the international context. METHODS: The primary source of information was the Scopus database, using the category "Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health", in the period 1996-2011. Data were obtained through the portal of SCImago Journal and Country Rank. Using a set of qualitative (citation-based), quantitative (document recount) and collaborative (authors from more than one country) indicators, we derived complementary data. The methodology serves as an analytical tool for researchers and scientific policy-makers. RESULTS: The contribution of Latin America to the arsenal of world science lies more or less midway on the international scale in terms of its output and visibility. Revealed as its greatest strengths are the high level of specialization in Public Health and the sustained growth of output. The main limitations identified were a relative decrease in collaboration and low visibility. CONCLUSIONS: Collaboration is a key factor behind the development of scientific activity in Latin America. Although this finding can be useful for formulating research policy in Latin American countries, it also underlines the need for further research into patterns of scientific communication in this region, to arrive at more specific recommendations.
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Bibliometrics , Public Health , Publishing , Research , Databases, Factual , Humans , Latin AmericaABSTRACT
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una comparativa de las representaciones científicas de la Psicología en distintos países iberoamericanos; para ello utilizamos una metodología de cocitación de categorías temáticas (clasificación JCR-Thompson & Cia.) que nos facilita larepresentación de la actividad científica. Los mapas resultantes permiten focalizar el área de Psicología, cuya representación nos servirá como base de información para el análisis de ladisciplina, en el ámbito científico de cada país, con visibilidad internacional. Con este estudio se ofrece una visión empírica de la estructura que subyace en la Psicología de los países objetode estudio, esto es de importancia puesto que la mayoría de los científicos tienen una idea intuitiva de esta estructura, que puede o no corresponderse con la realidad, pero de esta manera se les presenta una visión global de toda la disciplina que favorece el análisis objetivo de la misma en función del comportamiento de los científicos en la comunicación de la ciencia a través de los canales formales establecidos. Este modelo nos permite realizar una comparación objetiva de la investigación psicológica entre ocho países iberoamericanos.
The objective of this study is to compare the scientific representation of Psychology in the different Latin-American countries. We use a methodology of subject categories cocitation (JCR-Thomsom Cia, Subject Category Listing) which facilitates the representation of the scientific activity, the resulting maps permit us to focus on the Psychology Area, whose representation will serve as information base for the analysis of the discipline in each country scope, with international visibility. This is an empirical view of the underling structure in the Psychology in the countries studied and this is interesting since the majority of scientist have an intuitive idea of this structure which may or may not correspond to reality. Nevertheless ourrepresentation show an objective global view based on the scientist formal communication behavior. With this model an objective comparison of the Psychology research in the eight mostimportant Latin-American countries is carried out.
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Science/history , Psychology, Adolescent/education , Psychology/historyABSTRACT
This work aims to reveal some aspects of the scientific domain of Psychology, in the context of the internationally visible Spanish science in the databases of the Citation Index of The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which is represented by a map. We used the methodology of cocitation of thematic categories (JCR-Thompson Scientific), with which we obtained a representation of the scientific activity. The resulting map allowed us to focus on the area of Psychology, whose representation acts as database for the analysis of this discipline in the scientific field with international visibility. This study offers an empirical view of the underlying structure of Spanish Psychology. This is important because most scientists have an intuitive idea of this structure, but this may or may not be real. This way, we present a global vision of the entire discipline that favours its objective analysis as a function of scientists' behaviour as it affects their patterns of communication through the established formal channels.
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Psychology/statistics & numerical data , Publishing/statistics & numerical data , Science/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Spain/epidemiologyABSTRACT
El objetivo de este trabajo es desvelar algunos aspectos del dominio científico de la Psicología, en el contexto de la ciencia española visible internacionalmente en las bases de datos Citation Index del Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), representada ésta a través de un mapa. Para ello utilizamos una metodología de cocitación de categorías temáticas (clasificación JCR-Thompson Scientific) que nos facilita la representación de la actividad científica. El mapa resultante permite focalizar el área de Psicología, cuya representación nos servirá como base de información para el análisis de la disciplina en el ámbito científico con visibilidad internacional. Con este estudio se ofrece una visión empírica de la estructura que subyace en la Psicología, esto es de importancia puesto que la mayoría de los científicos tienen una idea intuitiva de esta estructura, que puede o no corresponderse con la realidad, pero de esta manera se les presenta una visión global de toda la disciplina que favorece el análisis objetivo de la misma en función del comportamiento de los científicos en cuanto afecta a sus pautas de comunicación a través de los canales formales establecidos (AU)
This work aims to reveal some aspects of the scientific domain of Psychology, in the context of the internationally visible Spanish science in the databases of the Citation Index of The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which is represented by a map. We used the methodology of cocitation of thematic categories (JCR-Thompson Scientific), with which we obtained a representation of the scientific activity. The resulting map allowed us to focus on the area of Psychology, whose representation acts as database for the analysis of this discipline in the scientific field with international visibility. This study offers an empirical view of the underlying structure of Spanish Psychology. This is important because most scientists have an intuitive idea of this structure, but this may or may not be real. This way, we present a global vision of the entire discipline that favours its objective analysis as a function of scientists behaviour as it affects their patterns of communication through the established formal channels (AU)
