Analysis of Ecuador's SCOPUS scientific production during the 2001-2020 period by means of standardized citation indicators.

ABSTRACT: An analysis of the scientific production of Ecuador is performed by means of the composite indicator computed for Ecuador-based authors as compared to their counterparts of other South American countries. The dataset employed was obtained from the Databricks platform of the ELSEVIER's International Center for Science Research, ICSR. Therefore, this analysis is limited to the metadata of the documents published in journals indexed in SCOPUS. Comparison of the results obtained for two decades: 2001-2010 and 2011-2020 showed that the number of Ecuador-based researchers has significantly increased in different areas of knowledge. Moreover, comparison between the total number of authors that worked in Ecuador at any given year of the 2011-2020 period and the number of authors that are still wor

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9062253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature