The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global health emergency. Mapping this health emergency in scientific publications demands multiple approaches to obtain a picture as complete as possible. To progress in the knowledge of this pandemic and to control its effects, international collaborations between researchers are essentials, as well as having open and immediate access to scientific publications, what we called "coopetition". Our main objectives are to identify the most productive countries in coronavirus publications, to analyse the international scientific collaboration on this topic, and to study the proportion and typology of open accessibility to these publications. We have analyzed 18,875 articles indexed in Web of Science. We performed the descriptive statistical analysis in order to explore the performance of the more prolific countries and organizations, as well as paying attention to the last 2 years. Registers have been analyzed separately via the VOSviewer software, drawing a network of links among countries and organizations to identify the starred countries and organizations, and the strongest links of the net. We have explored the capacity of researchers to generate scientific knowledge about a health crisis emergency, and their global capacity to collaborate among them in a global emergency. We consider that science is moving rapidly to find solutions to international health problems but access to this knowledge by society is not so quick due to several limitations (open access policies, corporate interests, etc.). We have observed that papers from China in the last 3 months (from January 2020 to March 2020) have a strong impact compared with papers published in years before. The United States and China are the major producers of documents of our sample, followed by all European countries, especially the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. At the same time, the leading role of Saudi Arabia, Canada or South Korea should be noted, with a significant number of documents submitted but very different dynamics of international collaboration. The proportion of international collaboration is growing in all countries in 2019-2020, which contrasts with the situation of the last two decades. The organizations providing the most documents to the sample are mostly Chinese. The percentage of open access articles on coronavirus for the period 2001-2020 is 59.2% but if we focus in 2020 the figures increase up to 91.4%, due to the commitment of commercial publishers with the emergency. Extended author information available on the last page of the article Keywords Coronavirus • COVID-19 • SARS-CoV-2 • 2019-nCoV • Scientific collaborations • Open access • Bibliometric analysis Introduction: analyzing a pandemic through bibliometric analysis In December 2019, a new type of virus of the family Coronaviridae, currently called SARS-CoV-2 (former 2019-nCoV), was identified as the cause of an outbreak that was later on January 30, 2020 declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)...
Mapping bi-regional scientific collaboration demands multiple approaches to obtain a picture as complete as possible. Usually, the first approach is the measuring of the number and typology of scientific co-publications in the most visible indexes of journals and publications covered by databases like Web of Science or Scopus, among others. This paper analyzes scientific publications listed by Web of Science (WoS), which comprises authors from the 28 EU countries and Latin American and Caribbean countries (EULAC) between 2005 and 2016. The following questions have been addressed: How are bi-regional scientific relations between EULAC countries reflected by international collaboration? What effects does this scientific collaboration have in smaller or emerging countries? Which area of knowledge has more international collaborations? The study highlights the existence of a growing global network of researchers from several countries that collaborate on their research. EULAC scientific collaboration cannot be understood in isolation from this global network.
Este trabajo aborda una revisión y desarrollo teórico del concepto Identity Work a partir de la lógica del acontecimiento y la multiplicidad para poner de relieve las potencialidades creativas de lo colectivo en los entornos organizacionales. Se introduce una nueva perspectiva sobre los procesos de control normativo más allá de la mera problematización de los discursos organizacionales y su impacto en nuestra construcción identitaria. La sensación de sentirse atrapado por…, o inmerso en…, o comprometido con la dinámica de la empresa se presenta como un proceso complejo, no unidireccional, lleno de ambivalencias, contradicciones y reformulaciones que nos llevan a entender la identidad como un campo de batalla organizacional, como algo contingente que surge, que acontece, que se crea colectivamente y no tanto como algo que se tiene, se adopta o se impone indefinidamente.
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global health emergency. Mapping this health emergency in scientific publications demands multiple approaches to obtain a picture as complete as possible. To progress in the knowledge of this pandemic and to control its effects, international collaborations between researchers are essentials, as well as having open and immediate access to scientific publications, what we called “coopetition”. The following questions have been addressed: Which are the countries with the most scientific publications, how do organizations collaborate (international scientific collaborations) and how much impact can be observed? What percentage of these publications and cited references are open access (identifying countries and organizations)?We have analyzed 18,875 articles indexed in Web of Science. We performed the descriptive statistical analysis in order to explore the performance of the more prolific countries and organizations, as well as paying attention to the last two years. Registers have been analyzed separately via the VOSviewer software, drawing a network of links among countries and organizations to identify the starred countries and organizations, and the strongest links of the net.We have explored the capacity of researchers to generate scientific knowledge about a health crisis emergency, and their global capacity to collaborate among them in a global emergency. We consider that science is moving rapidly to find solutions to international health problems but access to this knowledge by society is not so quick due to several limitations (open access policies, corporate interests, etc.). We have observed that papers from China in the last 3 months (from January 2020 to March 2020) have a strong impact compared with papers published in years before. The United States and China are the major producers of documents of our sample, followed by all European countries, especially the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. At the same time, the leading role of Saudi Arabia, Canada or South Korea should be noted, with a significant number of documents submitted but very different dynamics of international collaboration.
Resumen: El mapeo de la colaboración científica birregional requiere múltiples enfoques para obtener una imagen lo más completa posible. El primer indicador de esta colaboración es el número y la tipología de copublicaciones científicas entre autores de ambas regiones. Este artículo analiza las publicaciones científicas que figuran en la base de datos de Web of Science, que incluye a coautores de países de eulac entre 2005 y 2016, prestando especial atención a las áreas de investigación más destacadas y al papel de las agencias nacionales de investigación en la promoción de la cooperación internacional. Además, se introduce un indicador específico, la fuerza del enlace, para dar cuenta de las alianzas destacadas entre países, así como de la conexión de un determinado país dentro de la red trazada por el conjunto de copublicaciones analizadas. Nuestro estudio destaca la capacidad de los países de eulac en la generación de redes científicas y su papel relevante en una creciente red mundial de investigadores de diversos países que hace cada vez más difícil aislar una colaboración científica interregional específica.
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