Research Projects

UNESCO Project on Open Science Output Indicators

The project “Indicators of production in open science: building bridges towards the interoperability of information systems in Argentina” approved and funded by UNESCO held its inaugural meeting on June 15, 2023. The development of its scientific activities will be conducted

Study on accessibility and circulation of Argentine scientific journals

This study is the result of an empirical survey on a list of 1,724 journals, built through multiple sources, which resulted in the verification of a universe of active Argentine journals. For the purposes of the study, scientific journals were

Studies on publishing and circuits of recognition

Few studies are still available on scientific publications beyond the analyzes of the WoS-Scopus databases, and newly in the last years studies of complete publications corpus taken from repositories or national information systems are beginning to see. There is a

Institutional studies on the circulation of scientific research

In this line of work, we propose creating circulation indicators and leading institutional studies to generate primary information that allows the creation of a typology of universities. We start by considering that in the “periphery” knowledge of different types and

Academic Dependency Research Program – PIDAAL

The PIDAAL was initiated in 2004 and it constitutes the main antecedent of CECIC.  Its goal was to see the historical-structural development of the scientific – university field in Latin America, through a series of national studies and comparative analyses

Studies on evaluative cultures

This line of research is nourished by the results achieved in various studies on the dynamics and characteristics of existing evaluation systems at CONICET and National Universities in Argentina. In 2019, we published the results of a study aimed at

Study on accessibility of Argentine publications and expenditures in article processing charges (APC)

These studies focus on the transformation of scientific publications in the current transition to open access and the implications of the growth of journals with article processing charges (APC) for researchers, as well as for public funding of science in