El Salvador publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: subjects, authorship, collaboration and citation patterns

Abstract

Abstract:In contrast with other countries of the Central America biodiversity "hotspot", El Salvador has received considerable attention from the scientometrics point of view. According to previous studies, the country is unusual in its strong concentration of research funds in the social sciences, and in the unexpectedly low productivity and visibility of its scientific institutions. We only found 788 publications with El Salvador authors in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) until 2015, mostly in English and about health, environment and agriculture. Articles have more authors than previously found for the rest of Central America. The fact that two historically important articles were written exclusively by Salvadoran scientists indicates the potential for high level science that the country has had at least since 1940. Scientific productivity and international collaboration are improving, but the whole productivity and impact of scientific institutions of El Salvador remain unknown because the country publishes 130 scientific journals that are not included in the SCI-EXPANDED. There is a clear need for a regional database covering Central American science and its citation. Rev. Biol. Trop. 65 (4):

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“…In the last decade, publication performances in tropical countries has received much attention. A series studies were presented for Latin America including Costa Rica (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2012), Panama (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2015), Nicaragua (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2017a), Honduras (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2017b), El Salvador (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2017c), Guatemala , and Ecuador (Calahorrano, Monge-Nájera, Wang, & Ho, 2020). Similar investigations were also done in Africa, including Gambia (Bah, Fu, & Ho, 2019), Cameroon (Tchuifon Tchuifon, Fu, & Ho, 2017) and Ghana (Boamah & Ho, 2018).…”

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“…The higher citation rates of reviews and book chapters reflects the fact that reviews and books summarize large amounts of information from many articles. Thus, reviews and book chapters are more likely to be cited when an author wants to reflect what is known about a particular subject (Monge-Nájera & Ho, 2016;2017a;2017b;2017c;Ho, Lim, & Monge-Nájera, 2018) The relatively high citation rate that we found for publications with Benin authors can be explained by their participation in well financed international health-related projects, which in turn are frequently cited in the American and European journals that make most of the SCIExpanded database (Tijssen, 2007). The increase in total publications also follows the world trend of a growing number of papers published each year, a trend that is stronger in Africa in general (Confraria & Godinho, 2015).…”

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