UNESCO Project on Open Science Output Indicators
The proposal seeks to generate a working space and explore the existing conditions, obstacles and technical requirements to build a platform of Argentine scientific journals to make this production accessible to different users, students, researchers, librarians and information management personnel from different institutions. Building the architecture of such a platform could generate bridges of interoperability with open-access repositories of institutions, offer a valuable tool for evaluation processes and enhance the editorial professionalization of journals.
Hence, the project is clearly in line with the principles of UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendation, approved in November 2021. This proposes, among other dimensions, to advance in the institutionalization of enabling environments for open science, promoting responsible practices in the evaluation of research and researchers, which tend to encourage quality science, recognizing the diversity of research results, activities and missions. Likewise, these recommendations recognize that to foster a culture of open science, one of the main areas of action lies in redirecting incentives in academic evaluation systems. Finally, among its programmatic actions, it recommends that Member States, by their specific circumstances, governance structures and constitutional provisions, and by international and national legal frameworks, actively seek to reward open science practices in terms of research data, publications, as well as citizen and participatory science.
The survey of Argentinean journals: a contribution of the CECIC team to the UNESCO project
Within the framework of a study funded by CIECTI on accessibility and circulation of Argentine scientific journals, the dataset of the “Relevamiento de Revistas Científicas Argentinas” has recently been made available in open access in the digital CONICET Institutional Repository, to consolidate information on currently active Argentine scientific journals created between 1858 and 2020.
The digital CONICET Institutional Repository is an open-access virtual platform that makes available to society, the scientific-technological production made by researchers, fellows and other staff of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). This dataset includes descriptive information about these journals at the time of the survey (October 2021) that allows to analyze them according to their editorial professionalization, institutional anchorage and indexing and also includes a set of characteristics such as title, date of creation, discipline, website, editorial management, publishing institution and information on APC collection, subscriptions and indexing in databases, among others.
The journal titles were extracted from lists from different indexing databases or portals (Latindex Catalog 2.0, SciELO, RedALyC, Scopus and Web of Science, ISSN Argentina, Oliva-CECIC-Cuyo, national universities and scientific societies). Also, the data were collected and subjected to a process of cleaning and detection of duplicates and inactive journals between May and October 2021, resulting in a list with information on 786 active journals in 2020.
The Survey of Argentine Scientific Journals results were published in Chapter 1 of the book “Policies for the Promotion of Knowledge and intellectual property rights”, recently presented at the 47th Book Fair. This chapter offers a current overview of Argentine scientific journals in all areas. The first part completely describes the universe of recent publications surveyed. It then analyzes the structure of the Argentine scientific publishing space and its forms of circulation, offering a classification of the journals. Finally, it relates the world of scientific publishing with academic evaluation systems to present some conclusions and proposals for the future.
The survey was carried out within the framework of the Study of Argentine scientific journals by Fernanda Beigel (CONICET and UNCUYO), Carolina Monti (CONICET/UNLP) and Maximiliano Salatino (CONICET/UNCUYO), financed by the Interdisciplinary Center for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation (CIECTI).
The purpose of making this survey available is to encourage and promote quality Argentine journals.
The dataset can be accessed here.
Project: Sociologie de la circulation des savoirs: une prosopographie exploratoire basée sur les systèmes d’information CRIS de l’Espace universitaire francophone (PRISA 2021)
The project “Sociologie de la circulation des savoirs: une prosopographie exploratoire basée sur les systèmes d’information CRIS de l’Espace universitaire francophone (PRISA 2021)” is part of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). Its objective is to consolidate a research network on the circulation of scientific knowledge based on the convergence between bibliometric studies and prosopographical studies of the publications of researchers from Canada, Brazil and Argentina. Unlike traditional studies based exclusively on traditional databases, such as Scopus or Web of Science, this project aims to mobilize new sources, such as curricular information systems or CRIS systems in each country and large aggregators such as Lens, Google Scholar, Dimensions. The importance of exploring new sources lies in knowing more fully the characteristics of researchers and their publications in all languages, overcoming the limitations pointed out by the available literature that verify the mercantile, linguistic and disciplinary biases of those databases.
Project participants:
Fernanda Beigel, full professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza), senior researcher at CONICET (Argentina)
Yves Gingras, full professor, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie, Université du Québec à Montréal (Québec, Canada)
Breno Marqués Bringel, full professor, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Vincent Larivière, full professor, École de bibliothéconomie et sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada)
Ana Maria Almeida, full professor, Universidade de Campinas (Brazil)
Denis Baranger, professor emeritus, Universidad Nacional de Misiones (Argentina)
Fabio Erreguerena, full professor, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)
Osvaldo Gallardo, postdoctoral fellow ANPCYT and professor Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Maria Pia Rossomando, doctoral candidate, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Soledad Gomez, doctoral candidate, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Project: Comparative study of gender inequalities in scientific publishing and its impact in career-building in Brazil and Argentina
CECIC members participate and have participated in several international projects with peers from Latin America and the rest of the world. The most recent project is part of the Chaire Femmes et Science de l’Université Paris Dauphine. It is called “Comparative study of gender inequalities in scientific publishing and its impact in career-building in Brazil and Argentina”. It is directed by Fernanda Beigel and has a team constituted by Mario Pecheny (UBA-CONICET), Ana Maria Almeida (UNICAMP), Alejandra Ciriza (CONICET, UNCuyo), Marilia Moscovici (UNICAMP), Marcia Rangel (IESP – UERJ) and Osvaldo Gallardo (ANPCYT, UNCuyo). In addition, two doctoral theses related to this issue (Pía Rossomando and Soledad Gómez) are included in this line of research.
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