Título
A Scientometric Study of the Impact of Mexican Institutions in the Period 2007-2016
Autor
Héctor Gibrán Ceballos Cancino
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Acceso Abierto
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In management contexts of science, the study of the impact that different research outputs have often involves a combination of bibliometric and scientometric indicators, as well as peer review and expert opinion. Scientometric indicators are effective for a quantitative analysis as they provide a quick insight of the current and past situation at any organizational level. However, there is no indicator that fits every decision as there are many factors that can have an effect on the impact of an entity (e.g., different publication and citation patterns among disciplines or types of publications), and not all indicators are normalized to account for them.
The present study, focuses on the analysis of a set of indicators and their relation with a proposed field-normalized indicator, known as the Field-Weighted Citation Impact for Mexican Institutions (FWCIMX), using a panel data model. The proposed indicator is based on the formula for the FWCI developed by Scopus; the main differences involve ignoring the document type and using data that only contemplates the citations done to Mexican documents, so it only compares Mexican institutions against other Mexican institutions. Two models are proposed: the first model analyzes the relation between the citations per region and the FWCIMX, while the second one analyzes the collaborations per region. Both models include other indicators, and have presented different results when tested in three-year time windows.
This research has been performed with the intention of helping researchers and research institutions understand the relation, either positive or negative, that certain indicators have on the behavior of the FWCIMX, which has been designed to compare the impact that the most relevant Mexican institutions have, regardless of the disciplines in which each one of them is more prominent. To achieve these results, it is worth mentioning that the data used was collected from Scopus and comprises a ten-year period that goes from 2007 to 2016.
Two batches of experiments were run. The first batch revealed that publishing in journals and trade journals had positive effects on the FWCIMX, so did receiving citations from Oceania, and collaborating with South America and Oceania. In contrast, indicators with negative effects on the FWCIMX include publishing in Open Access periodicals, receiving citations from Europe, and collaborating with Europe. The second batch of experiments revealed that Mexico is the main source of citations for the publications published by the institutions analyzed in this study. The results also suggested that international collaborations and publishing in journals have negative effects. This batch also revealed that publishing in periodicals that are open access have negative effects on the proposed metric. Not so surprisingly, publishing in periodicals in quartiles Q1 and Q2 have positive effects. During the computation of the metrics and the FWCIMX itself, other interesting discoveries where obtained, such as the identification of the averaged expected citations per area and year with respect to the production in Mexico, and the ranking of Mexican institutions with regard to their averaged FWCIMXs.
Maestro en Ciencias Computacionales
Editor
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Fecha de publicación
mayo de 2020
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