Papers by Ricardo Arencibia Jorge
Introducción: El dominio de las Ciencias farmacéuticas ha sido estudiado desde la perspectiva cie... more Introducción: El dominio de las Ciencias farmacéuticas ha sido estudiado desde la perspectiva cienciométrica con relativa frecuencia, debido a la importancia médica y la repercusión económica que tiene la investigación en esta área. En Cuba, los resultados alcanzados por este sector han permitido elevar los indicadores de salud del país hasta alcanzar niveles solo reservados a naciones desarrolladas. La creación del Grupo de las Industrias Biotecnológica y Farmacéutica (BioCubaFarma) consolidó el impacto de este sector en la economía cubana. Objetivo: El presenteestudio comparativo aborda las características de la producción científica en 15 empresas multinacionales farmacéuticas y BioCubaFarma durante el período 2003-2013. El principal objetivo es identificar semejanzas y diferencias en los procesos de publicación de la investigación.
Scientific production of the health institutes in Cuba on the Web of Science from 2000 to 2004
ACIMED, Sep 1, 2007
Universidad de La Habana, 2013
Resumen El presente trabajo ofrece una visión, desde la perspectiva cienciométrica, de las instit... more Resumen El presente trabajo ofrece una visión, desde la perspectiva cienciométrica, de las instituciones académicas cubanas más relevantes durante el Siglo XXI. A partir de indicadores
ACIMED, Feb 27, 2013
The scientific output of research sectors involved in Cuban R&D activities during the period 2003... more The scientific output of research sectors involved in Cuban R&D activities during the period 2003-2007, using Scopus as data source, was analyzed. Quantitative and qualitative dimension of the scientific production was described through a set of bibliometric indicators. The most productive and visible sectors were identified. The evolution of the total scientific output by sector, and the behavior of the three most important sectors were studied. Inter-sector relationships were visualized with the aim to analyze the national scientific macro-structure. The growth of Higher Education and Health Sector determined the nation's growth during this period. Despite a positive evolution of the Cuban scientific output, a weak linkage between universities and institutions of science and technological innovation, and also scarce relationships between scientific research centers and health institutions, were observed. Low indices of international collaboration in Health Sector, and deficient links between R&D units of enterprises and institutions belonging to Higher Education and Science and Technology, were also identified.
RESUMEN I ntroducción: los estudios cienciométricos utilizan indicadores relativos para la caract... more RESUMEN I ntroducción: los estudios cienciométricos utilizan indicadores relativos para la caracterización temática de la producción científica, para identificar las principales fortalezas y debilidades de un país en un dominio del conocimiento. Objetivo: hacer la caracterización temática de la producción científica cubana sobre salud indexada en Scopus durante el período 1996-2010, a partir de patrones de especialización temática. Métodos: estudio descriptivo. Se compilaron datos relativos al número total de documentos indexados por Scopus, así como la productividad y la tasa de crecimiento anual. Se calculó el índice de especialización temática de la producción científica. Resultados: el índice de especialización temática de la producción científica cubana sobre salud alcanzó niveles superiores con respecto a la región y el mundo. Los mayores índices de especialización se alcanzaron en dominios temáticos donde, a su vez, Cuba exhibe importantes indicadores de salud. Las investigaciones publicadas en revistas nacionales indexadas por Scopus influyeron de manera decisiva en el índice de especialización de las principales categorías temáticas estudiadas. Conclusiones: las ciencias de la salud de manera general, y particularmente la salud pública, tienen un rol protagónico dentro de la producción científica nacional.
Revista cubana de salud pública (Impresa), 2012
Introducción: los estudios cienciométricos utilizan indicadores relativos para la caracterización... more Introducción: los estudios cienciométricos utilizan indicadores relativos para la caracterización temática de la producción científica, para identificar las principales fortalezas y debilidades de un país en un dominio del conocimiento. Objetivo: hacer la caracterización temática de la producción científica cubana sobre salud indexada en Scopus durante el período 1996-2010, a partir de patrones de especialización temática. Métodos: estudio descriptivo. Se compilaron datos relativos al número total de documentos indexados por Scopus, así como la productividad y la tasa de crecimiento anual. Se calculó el índice de especialización temática de la producción científica. Resultados: el índice de especialización temática de la producción científica cubana sobre salud alcanzó niveles superiores con respecto a la región y el mundo. Los mayores índices de especialización se alcanzaron en dominios temáticos donde, a su vez, Cuba exhibe importantes indicadores de salud. Las investigaciones publicadas en revistas nacionales indexadas por Scopus influyeron de manera decisiva en el índice de especialización de las principales categorías temáticas estudiadas. Conclusiones: las ciencias de la salud de manera general, y particularmente la salud pública, tienen un rol protagónico dentro de la producción científica nacional.
ACIMED, Apr 1, 2008
La evaluación de la investigación científica: una aproximación teórica desde la cienciometría The... more La evaluación de la investigación científica: una aproximación teórica desde la cienciometría The evaluation of scientific research: a theoretical approach from scientometrics Ricardo Arencibia Jorge I ; Félix de Moya Anegón II la producción científica, con el objetivo de desarrollar instrumentos evaluativos que aceleren el crecimiento de la producción científica a nivel nacional y mejoren su visibilidad y posicionamiento en el contexto de la actividad científica mundial. Palabras clave: Evaluación de la investigación, política científica, cienciometría, indicadores cienciometricos, análisis de citas, redes de colaboración, análisis de dominio.
arXiv (Cornell University), Nov 6, 2009
The current communication presents a simple exercise with the aim of solving a singular problem: ... more The current communication presents a simple exercise with the aim of solving a singular problem: the retrieval of extremely large amounts of items in the Web of Science interface. As it is known, Web of Science interface allows a user to obtain at most 100,000 items from a single query. But what about queries that achieve a result of more than 100,000 items? The exercise developed one possible way to achieve this objective. The case study is the retrieval of the entire scientific production from the United States in a specific year. Different sections of items were retrieved using the field Source of the database. Then, a simple Boolean statement was created with the aim of eliminating overlapping and to improve the accuracy of the search strategy. The importance of team work in the development of advanced search strategies was noted.
Scientometrics, Jan 25, 2018
Transmission levels and severity of infections in Aedes aegypti-transmitted diseases have been cu... more Transmission levels and severity of infections in Aedes aegypti-transmitted diseases have been currently intensified. This short communication is a bibliometric approach about research on this vector, which is responsible for more than 25,000 deaths annually. Current scientific research on A. aegypti is characterized, using Scopus as data source. A total of 5039 published articles during the period 2006-2015 were retrieved. Two time-slices to calculate growth rates by countries and subject areas were developed. Coword analysis for research fronts identification was used. Scientific output was mainly concentrated in four Scopus subject areas: Medicine; Immunology and Microbiology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Highest growth rate was observed in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics. United States, Brazil and India were the most productive countries. Four research fronts were identified: epidemiology; gene expression and biological control; larvicidal and insecticidal effects; and reproduction and insecticide resistance. Literature on A. aegypti during the last 10 years showed an exponential growth. This growing was associated with This brief communication was presented during the International Seminar of Quantitative and Qualitative Studies of Science and Technologies ''Prof. Gilberto Sotolongo Aguilar'', from November 2nd to 4th,
Estudio bibliométrico de la investigación científica más reciente sobre Aedes aegypti: Scopus, 2006-2015
XIV Congreso Internacional de Información Info'2016, Sep 28, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Transmission levels and severity of infections in Aedes aegypti-transmitted disease... more INTRODUCTION: Transmission levels and severity of infections in Aedes aegypti-transmitted diseases have been currently intensified. However, non bibliometric studies have been published abording research on this vector, which is responsible of more than 25,000 deaths annually. PURPOSE: To characterize current scientific research on Aedes aegypti. METHODOLOGY: Scopus was used as data source. A total of 5039 published articles were retrieved during the period 2006-2015, using the term Aedes aegypti as serch strategy. Two time-slices to calculate growth rates by countries and subject areas were developed. Co-words analysis was used for research fronts identification. Bibexcel and VOSviewer were the software used for clustering and visualization of the most frequent terms. RESULTS: Scientific output was mainly concentrated by four Scopus subject areas: Medicine; Immunology & Microbiology; Agricultural & Biological Sciences; and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Highest growth rate was observed in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics. United States, Brazil and India were the most productive countries. Four research fronts were identified: epidemiology; gene expression and biological control; larvicidal and insecticidal effects; and reproduction and insecticide resistance. CONCLUSIONS: Literature on Aedes aegypti during the last ten years experimented a linear growth. This growing was associated to the identification of mosquitos in new environments, as well as the appearing of outbreaks related to diseases transmitted by this vector.
The Wally Index: an altmetric proposal for Cuban editorials indexed in the e-Libro.com platform
Nanotechnology as a scientific discipline: a bibliometric study of the Web of Science in the period 1987- 2004
ACIMED, Aug 1, 2005
Frontiers in Physics
In this article, we will describe a model to examine the influence of differently organized insti... more In this article, we will describe a model to examine the influence of differently organized institutions on their scientific productivity. We take two extreme cases, on one hand, an institution divided in departments with no collaboration between people in different departments. These could be disciplines or merely projects. On the other hand, we consider an institution that allows interactions between all individuals, without a departmental structure to a department. We compare the results with data from the Institute of Renewable Energy (IER) at UNAM, which has changed its organization and policies during the last 30 years, and we could quantitatively predict the changes observed in productivity and multidisciplinarity. This model can be applied to a broader set of institutions and processes.
Bibliotecas: Anales de Investigación, Jun 28, 2021
Configuración de un sector-red basado en el desarrollo de un Sistema de Inteligencia Colaborativa... more Configuración de un sector-red basado en el desarrollo de un Sistema de Inteligencia Colaborativa: estudio de caso. Bibliotecas. Anales de Investigacion;17(2), 3-19 RESUMEN Objetivo. Describir la implementación de un Sistema de Inteligencia Colaborativa en el sector biotecnológico y farmacéutico cubano, desde los enfoques tecnológico y social. Diseño / Metodología / Enfoque: Los marcos metodológicos empleados para el desarrollo del sistema fueron los requisitos de la
LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal, 2016
Background. Over the past four decades there have been considerable arguments against the arbitra... more Background. Over the past four decades there have been considerable arguments against the arbitrary use of Garfield's Impact Factor in research evaluation. Over the past decade, the emergence of databases with considerable breadth of coverage, such as Scopus and Google Scholar, together with the general demand for greater accuracy in journal assessments, has motivated the emergence of alternative journal indicators. However, the study of Latin American journals using these quantitative measures is still scarce. Objectives. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of advanced bibliometric indicators to analyze the performance of scientific journals, and to identify a mainstream journals core in national and regional contexts. Methods. Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Report and Elsevier's Journal Metrics were used as information sources. Four bibliometric indicators were selected to identify clusters of high-visibility journals: Impact Factor, Eigenfactor Score, Source Normalized Impact per Paper, and SCImago Journal Rank. A Self-Organizing Map (SOM) based artificial intelligence method to identify a mainstream journals core was also used. Mexican serials were selected for the case study. Results. The coverage of Mexican journals in Web of Science and Scopus during the period 2004-2013 was studied. The performance of Mexican scientific journals was also evaluated. Mexican journal rankings based on Scopus-based metrics versus Web of Science-based metrics were compared.
RESUMEN: Objetivo. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo identificar, desde una perspec-tiva cuantitati... more RESUMEN: Objetivo. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo identificar, desde una perspec-tiva cuantitativa, las diferencias existentes entre la investigación científica cubana publicada en revistas de máxima visibilidad y el resto de la produc-ción científica nacional, utilizando como herramienta de análisis los cuar-tiles de visibilidad establecidos por el portal Scimago Journal & Country Rank, elaborados a partir de la base de datos Scopus. Diseño/Metodología/Enfoque. Se seleccionó como caso de estudio la producción científica cubana sobre Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Infor-mación indizada en esta base de datos. Se empleó una batería de indica-dores cienciométricos para analizar los niveles de citación, colaboración y liderazgo presentes en el conjunto de artículos perteneciente a cada uno de los cuartiles de visibilidad. Se analizó la correlación entre los indicado-res estudiados. Resultados/Discusión. Se confirmó la alta dependencia de los indicado-res basados en análisis de citas,...
Knowledge domains are strongly related to the communities integrated for their configuration and ... more Knowledge domains are strongly related to the communities integrated for their configuration and development. Bibliometrics is one of the more objective ways to the analysis and characterization of these communities. The current study characterized the behavior of the scientific community specialized on alopecia areata during the period 2001-2014, through a bibliometric perspective. The Web of Science was used as information source. A battery of bibliometric indicators was used to determine productivity, influence and performance of authors, as well as to characterize their most relevant researches. Annual productivity was determined. An exponential growth of the scientific output on alopecia areata was observed. The fifteen most productive journals were identified, which produced around 50 % of the total amount of articles. The most visible author´s core was identified. The value of H index was demonstrated, not only as indicator to determine scientific performance, but also as a measure to identify leadership in scientific knowledge domains, especially in the field of Medical Sciences.
Iberoamerican Journal of Science Measurement and Communication, 2020
Colaboración y performance científico en el dominio científico de Cuba en Scopus, 2003-2011 Colla... more Colaboración y performance científico en el dominio científico de Cuba en Scopus, 2003-2011 Collaboration and scientific performance in Cuban scientific domain in Scopus, Abstract: This paper presents the preliminary results of some behavioral patterns of the Cuban scientific production in the Scopus database for the period 2003-2011. From a set of
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