BRICS' scientific excellence and the search for relevance and replicability

• Autor: Vílchez‐Román, Carlos
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
• Repositorio: USIL-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.usil.edu.pe:20.500.14005/1746
• Enlace del recurso: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23654; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14005/1746
• Nivel de acceso: acceso embargado
• Materia: Comunicación científica; Research and development

JASIST recently published a brief communication focused on two dimensions of scientific production: excellence (top 10% and top 1% highly cited publications) and international collaboration (measured by coauthorship networks) of BRICS’s scholar publications (Bornmann, Wagner, & Leydesdorff, 2015). The authors used data from the Max Planck Digital Library, an in-house version of the Web of Science (WoS). Although their bibliometric analysis for data is detailed, three issues are discussed here: replicability, relevance for national research agendas, and contextualization