[Sigiii-l] Fwd: [Sigmetrics] Latin American and Caribbean publications in the SciELO Citation Index and the Web of Science -- preprint

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[Sigmetrics] Latin American and Caribbean publications in the 
SciELO Citation Index and the Web of Science -- preprint
Date: 	Sat, 10 Oct 2015 08:38:56 +0200
From: 	Loet Leydesdorff <loet at leydesdorff.net>
Reply-To: 	loet at leydesdorff.net
Organization: 	University of Amsterdam
To: 	SIGMetrics <sigmetrics at mail.asis.org>



  Regional and Global Science:
  Latin American and Caribbean publications in the SciELO Citation Index
  and the Web of Science <http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02453>

Gabriel Velez-Cuartas, Diana Lucio-Arias, and Loet Leydesdorff

We compare the visibility and performance of Latin American and 
Caribbean (LAC) publications in the Core collection indexes included in 
the Web of Science (WoS) -- Science Citation Index Expanded, Social 
Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index -- and the 
Scielo Citation Index (SciELO CI) which was integrated into the larger 
WoS platform in 2014. The purpose of this comparison is to contribute to 
our understanding of the communication of scientific knowledge produced 
in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to provide some reflections on 
the potential benefits of the articulation of regional indexing 
exercises into WoS for a better understanding of geographic and 
disciplinary contributions. How is the regional level of ScieLO CI 
related to the global one of WoS? In WoS, LAC authors are integrated at 
the global level in international networks; for example, as postdocs. In 
SciELO CI, south-south collaboration is more central, and the focus is 
shifted towards social problems. The articulation of SciELO into WoS may 
improve the international standardization (for example, of referencing) 
in the regional journals, but comes at the price of losing independence 
of the journal inclusion criteria.

·Preprint available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02453

·Apologies for cross-postings

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Loet Leydesdorff

University of Amsterdam
loet at leydesdorff.net <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net>; 
http://www.leydesdorff.net/



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