Publishing Performance, Bibliodiversity and Bilingualism in a Complete Corpus of Scientific Publications
Keywords:
bibliodiversity, CONICET, scientific publications, knowledge circulationAbstract
Discussions on open access publishing, scientific information systems, and institutional repositories are continually renewed in Latin America and other latitudes. Initiatives that seek to compile everything produced by scientific researchers, and not only indexed publications, also take a central role. To this end, this article analyzes the complete publication corpus of all the researchers of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, due to its acronym in Spanish) of Argentina. Publishing styles are examined (format, language, and place), in addition to differences between disciplines and specific gender asymmetries. The article also delves into the changes occurred in the last decade within the assessment cultures of CONICET and its recruitment policy. The results show that, while the paper format and the English language are dominant, they coexist with other forms of knowledge production and circulation. Publications in Argentina, written in Spanish and published in book format, are far from marginal in the population analyzed.Downloads
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