New data on research landscape of 34 countries across South &
In the latest Global Research Report,
Key findings:
- The number of academic research papers indexed in the Web of Science™ has grown more rapidly for the region than for most of the rest of the world. More than three-quarters of the region's research is from
South America . - From 2016 to 2020, five countries published more than 25,000 papers, another 12 published between 1,000 and 10,000 papers, and the other 17 countries published fewer than 200 papers per year on average.
Brazil is by far the largest research producer and 10 of the 34 countries, includingCuba andMexico , account for more than three-quarters of regional output. - The analysis reveals that regional collaboration is uniformly low, approaching just 10% of collaboration in
Nicaragua andBolivia , whileBrazil is the most collaborative country within the region. - International research output is significant and increasing -
the United States ,Spain ,Germany ,France and theUnited Kingdom are collaborating with all the major economies in the region, but particular interest comes from Mainland China, where collaboration withLatin America is rising at twice that of other major countries. - As output has grown, research subject diversity has risen in most of the larger countries, driven by international collaboration. Areas of particular regional strength, identified through analysis of journal use and citation topic modeling, include life and environmental sciences, tropical medicine, astronomy, education and romance literature.
- The report also finds that language is an important regional factor. With growing international collaboration, the benefits of enabling access of research findings to a global network of researchers is beneficial to both writer and reader. Comparison between the numbers of papers in the English, Portuguese and Spanish languages in the Web of Science and in the regional SciELO Citation Index™ produces a similar language balance, although SciELO has fewer internationally collaborative papers in English. A fall is evident in the number of papers authored in Portuguese, and English has become the dominant 'lingua americana' of science as researchers in
Brazil increasingly seek to publish in English-language journals. - Open access (OA) is a successful and expanding part of regional publication patterns, but citation rates of OA papers are not yet as high as in other regions.
Notes to editors:
Report authors are available for interview.
The international citation data from the Web of Science used in this report was complemented by regional citation indexes from the SciELO Citaion Index, providing increased visibility and access to regional, language-specific scientific literature. SciELO is included on the Web of Science platform, to which it was linked in 2013.
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