Cooperación en Latinoamerica: red científica de psicología

Abstract

ResumenEste estudio investigó algunos aspectos de una red cooperativa dirigida a la Psicología Latinoamericana. El estudio se basó en datos documentales disponibles para el público. La red incluyó 262 investigadores latinoamericanos y 38 de otros países, puesto que la red apoya investigadores de otros continentes interesados en cooperar. Los datos investigados fueron el país de origen, el nivel educativo, la ocupación profesional, los intereses generales en cooperar y las modalidades de cooperación buscadas. En total, los miembros procedían de 23 países, incluyendo 12 de Latinoamérica y 11 de otros continentes. Los países con el mayor número de participantes fueron Colombia, Brasil, Argentina, Chile y Perú. En términos del nivel educativo se identificaron miembros desde pregrado hasta PhD. La mayoría (n = 199) reportó tener nivel de doctorado o maestría y la mayoría (n = 203) son profesores o investigadores en el nivel universitarios. Los intereses generales de cooperación se dividieron en cuatro grupos, de los cuales los temas más citados fueron salud, salud mental y psicología social. La forma de cooperación más frecuentemente señalada fue la participación

Productivity Analysis and Impact of Colombian Psychology Journals between 2000 and 2016

“…Kliegl and Bates (2011) indicate that the levels of collaboration in the top psychology journals reached their peak in the 1990s. Although the present observation window begun in the 2000s, there is a similar increasing trend in collabo-ration, which has been pointed out in other studies and is supported by the cooperation and previous reports on psychology journals in Colombia (Ávila-Toscano, Marenco-Escuderos, & Madariaga Orozco, 2013;Garcia et al, 2016Garcia et al, , 2017Guerrero & Jaraba, 2009;López-López, de Moya Anegón, Acevedo-Triana, Garcia, & Silva, 2015). Although the data are not presented in this study, this collaboration has been found to be going through a change, moving from intra-institutional to national and international collaborations; as such, this category is necessary for the optimization of various kinds of resources.…”

“…In turn, technological developments require the integration of multiple sources. Accordingly, productivity analyses using a bibliometric approach allow areas of greater or lesser proximity to be identified, and, thus, the interdisciplinarity of knowledge (Heberger et al, 2010); furthermore, similar analyses have been conducted on cooperation between authors or types of research (Garcia, López-López, Acevedo-Triana, & Nogueira Pereira, 2017;Robayo-Castro, Rico, Hurtado-Parrado, & Ortega, 2016). This cooperation could be understood as joint efforts towards the common goal of scientific productivity (Garcia, López-López, Acevedo-Triana, & Bucher-Maluschke, 2016).…”

Editorial: Research on Emotion and Learning: Contributions from Latin America

“…Collaboration between Latin American institutions was only observed in one instance (Colombia-Mexico). Both of these findings are aligned with previously reported patterns of collaboration (i.e., typically with non-Latin American institutions), which have been explained by the need of better visibility, research quality, impact factors, or international recognition (García et al, 2017).…”

The impact of Covid-19 on Latin American Psychology: research, profession, and public policy

“…Psychology in Latin America not only has a significant history as a discipline and profession, but also an important capacity for organization and response to exceptional phenomena such as the current one (Ardila, 1986;Gallegos, 2010Gallegos, , 2016aGarcía et al, 2017;Klappenbach et al, 2018;López-López et al, 2015;Saforcada, 2003). As psychologists and other health scientists began the novel task of examining the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the region, the number of studies has increased dramatically.…”