Requena J. "Dynamics of the modern Venezuelan research community profile" Scientometrics 65(1): 95-130 October 2005.

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: jaimerequena at cantv.net



Title: Dynamics of the modern Venezuelan research community profile

Author(s): Requena J

Source: SCIENTOMETRICS 65 (1): 95-130 OCT 2005

Document Type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 72      Times Cited: 0

Abstract: The main characteristics, human resources, organizational
development, R&D output and outcome of the Venezuelan scientific and
technological community, are studied in depth for three specific dates -
years 1954, 1983 and 1999 -, aiming to reveal its strengths and weaknesses
and to establish its dynamics. During the first half of the twentieth
century, Venezuela had no major organized or institutionalized scientific
activity. From 1954 thru 1983, the State built a considerable number of
institutions mostly for research and development activities. Initially,
researchers came from classical professions but were later substituted by
graduates in scientific and technological disciplines. Biomedical and basic
sciences are the areas of knowledge favored by researchers while, in terms
of intellectual creation, social sciences and humanities seem to be the
less productive, despite being one of the fields of knowledge embraced by
most professionals. Although from 1983 on there has been no major input to
the national S&T system, the research community showed a few years of
growth in absolute terms in the number of publications, however national
productivity decreased during the last decade of the century. It is
believed that this reflects an aging, asphyxiated and self-consuming
community using its reserves at a maximum rate. The S&T system constructed
exhibits a dominance of the public sector that privileged, financially, the
hydrocarbon related technological/service industry at the expense of
academic research in universities while maintaining agribusiness related
service and developmental research at the same level of expenditure
throughout the last twenty years of the twentieth century. While the
generation - practically from zero - of a modern R&D community in
Venezuela, together with higher education, could well be one of the most
significant accomplishments of democracy in Venezuela, this remarkable
social achievement has been put in peril by neglect and changes in public
policies. Downturn of the national S&T system is bound to worsen due to a
virtual collapse, on February 4, 2002, of the R&D centre of the
nationalized oil industry.

Addresses: Requena J (reprint author), POB 80383,Prados Este Baruta,
Caracas, 1080A Venezuela
Acad Ciencias Fis Matemat & Nat, Caracas, Venezuela

E-mail Addresses: jaimerequena at cantv.net

Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS
Subject Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS;
INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
IDS Number: 959IV
ISSN: 0138-9130

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