Cooperación en las Ciencias del Comportamiento Latinoamericanas: Una Investigación Documental

Abstract

ResumenUna investigación basada en el Psycinfo, desde 2001 hasta 2010, sobre la cooperación científica entre al menos dos países latinoamericanos, en Ciencias del Comportamiento, resultó en 528 publicaciones. Los países con mayor participación fueron Brasil, México, Argentina, Colombia, Chile y Perú. Las publicaciones incluyen 281producciones exclusivamente latinoamericanas y 247 publicaciones con la participación de uno o más países de otros continentes. Las tres áreas con el mayor número de publicaciones han sido Trastornos de la Salud y Salud Mental psicológica y física: Tratamiento y Prevención, Psicología Fisiológica y Neurociencia, mientras que 95 habían publicado dos o más artículos.La principal revista había publicado 62 artículos. En tanto, 459 artículos indicaban la metodología empleada, 435 eran estudios empíricos y 24 eran revisiones de la literatura o meta-análisis. Los datos son analizados y discutidos con miras a ampliar la cooperación y tratar de cuantificar la cooperación entre investigadores Palabras clave: Psicología, cooperación y Latinoamérica. AbstractA survey based on Psycinfo, from 2001 to 2010, about scientific cooperation among of at least two countries in Latin America, in Behavioral Sciences, resulted in 528 publications. The countries with the highest participation were Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Peru.Publications included 281 productions exclusively Latin American and 247 publications with the participation of one or more countries from other continents. The three areas that showed the largest number ofpublications were Psychological Disorders and Physical Health; Mental Health: Treatment andPrevention, and Physiological Psychologyand Neuroscience. 157 journals published only one article while 95 published two or more items. The main journal has published 62 papers in cooperation. 459 articles indicated the methodology employed, and 435 were empirical studies and 24 were literature reviewsor meta-analyzes. The data are analyzed and discussed in view of possible ways to expand cooperation and attempted to quantify the cooperation between researchers.

Cooperación en Latinoamerica: red científica de psicología

“…According to Katz and Martin (1997), co-authorship is the basic unity to evaluate cooperation. This intensification is also observed in Latin American science (García, Acevedo-Triana & López-López, 2014). Fernán-dez, Gómez and Sebastián (1998) observed that 31.7 % of all scientific publications between 1991 and 1995 were coauthored; however, partnerships with other Latin American countries were less frequent than partnerships with European countries and the USA.…”

Psychological Research Collaboration and Visibility in Iberoamerica

“…Using the Scopus database, we examined psychology production with a focus on authors and institutional affiliation between at least two different countries to define the collaboration (Garcia et al, 2014). We developed two bibliometric maps according to the methodology described by Hassan-Montero et al (2014).…”

“…One way to measure international collaboration is through the analysis of output from researchers, joint projects, academic events, and research training (Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2009;Garcia et al, 2014). Following Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al (2009), we understand that collaboration is the reflection of an individual and institutional process that promotes generation of output, first and foremost which are scientific articles.…”

“…In the humanities, for example, the sense of authorship is strong and collaboration among authors is low (Bordons, Gomez, Fernandez, Zulueta, & Mendez, 1996;Garcia et al, 2014; Salazar-Acosta, Lucio-Arias, López-López, & Aguado-López, 2013). This feature is probably related to the way products relate to the contexts in which they are produced.…”

“…Publications are not the only way to measure the collaboration process, given that they can generate material difficult to evaluate in terms of long-term scientific merit; but they do serve as a means to quantify collaboration. For the purpose of this paper, collaboration will be defined as output derived from co-authorship between researchers at different institutions (Chinchilla-Rodríguez et al, 2009;Garcia et al, 2014;Katz & Martin, 1997).…”