Measuring the Cuban scientific output in scholarly journals through a comprehensive coverage approach

Galbán-Rodríguez, Ernesto; Torres-Ponjuán, Déborah; Martí-Lahera, Yohannis; Jorge, Ricardo Arencibia

doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03233-6

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“…We used two measures: 1) Cuban overall scientific productivity excluding the papers with the participation of the U.S., 2) The Cuba-U.S. joint scientific production. Previous studies analyzed the Cuban scientific output in scholarly journals [27], the productivity in biotechnology [28], the Cuban productivity of publications and patents [3]. The results of the study will shed light on the Cuban scientific productivity in collaboration with U.S.…”

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Cuba—U.S. scientific collaboration: Beyond the embargo

Ronda-Pupo

2021

PLoS ONE

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Cuba and the U.S. have the oldest Academies of Sciences outside Europe. Both countries have a long history of scientific collaboration that dates to the 1800s. Both scientific communities also share geographical proximity and common scientific research interests mainly in Biotechnology, Meteorology, and Public Health research. Despite these facts, scientists from both nations face serious barriers to cooperation raised by the U.S. embargo established in 1961 that prohibits exchanges with Cuba. The study aims to analyze the effects of U.S. policy on scientific collaboration with Cuban scientific institutions. The results of the bibliometric analysis of Cuba-U.S. joint publications in the Web of Science, and Scopus databases between 1980 to 2020 indicate sustained growth of scientific collaboration between scientists of both nations over the past forty years. The results also show that after the 1980 Smithsonian Institution and the Cuba’s Academy of Sciences agreement significantly increased scientific collaboration between U.S. scientists with their Cuban peers. President Barack Obama’s approach to normalizing the U.S. Cuba relations in 2015 enhanced Cuban scientific production with U.S. scientists by exceeding the number of collaborative papers published during any preceding U.S. Presidential administration. By 2020, Cuba had expanded its scientific links to 80% of the countries in the world. Cuban and U.S. scientists converted from adversaries into partners, showing that science is an effective diplomatic channel. A particularly important question for the future is how robust is the collaboration system in the face of greater political restrictions?

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Cuba—U.S. scientific collaboration: Beyond the embargo

Ronda-Pupo

2021

PLoS ONE

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“…Un ejemplo del efecto del idioma corresponde al vietnamita: según Hien (2010), el Science Citation Index Expanded deja por fuera el 95 % de los artículos científicos de Vietnam, por hallarse en vietnamita. Un ejemplo del problema a nivel de país es Cuba, donde solo un 22% de la producción científica aparece en revistas indexadas internacionalmente (Galbán-Rodríguez et al 2019).…”

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“…All that literature, locally important and influential, is missing from the Web of Science (Arencibia-Jorge & de Moya-Anegón, 2010;Zacca-González et al, 2015). This poor coverage of Cuban science by the Web of Science and Scopus has been repeatedly reported but not solved but those databases, in detriment of Cuban science (Araujo Ruiz et al, 2005;Galbán-Rodríguez et al, 2019).…”

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“…More recently, a comparative study in several databases estimated that 78 % of the Cuban scientific output is published in Cuban journals, and that, of those published in foreign journals, Scopus missed 33 % and the Web of Science missed 38 % (Galbán-Rodríguez et al, 2019).…”

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Cuba Publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: publication characteristics, institutions and journals

Mónge-Nájera¹

2021

Rev. Biol. Trop.

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Introduction: In contrast with other tropical countries, Cuba has been frequently studied from the point of views of scientometrics. It has been reported that Cuban researchers often failed to cite other Cuban researchers or to collaborate with them, and that 78 % of the Cuban scientifc output is published in Cuban journals and mostly missed by Scopus and the Web of Science. Objective: In this article, we analyze article characteristics (subject, language, authorship), institutions and journals that appear in the Science Citation Index Expanded, as well as citations from the Web of Science Core Collection. Methods: We analyzed publications from Cuba, dated 1900 to 2019, that reached the index. Results: We retrieved a total of 23576 publications, mostly articles. In this database, English is the dominant language, and, over time, articles have become longer and increased the number of authors and references. Numerically, the leading institution is Universidad de La Habana. Research is strongly concentrated around medical subjects. Collaboration teams lead by foreign authors have more citations recorded by the database, where the number of Cuban articles has decreased after 2008. Conclusion: For Cuban publications that reach the Science Citation Index Expanded (under 22%), most research is applied to health subjects and productivity has decreased in the last decade.

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Measuring the Cuban scientific output in scholarly journals through a comprehensive coverage approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Cuba—U.S. scientific collaboration: Beyond the embargo

Cuba—U.S. scientific collaboration: Beyond the embargo

Cómo aplicar la cienciometría a la investigación ecológica

Cuba Publications in the Science Citation Index Expanded: publication characteristics, institutions and journals

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