Producción Científica

The study aims to identify whether, from the promulgation of the 1988 Federal Constitution, there was the emergence and consolidation of the Public Administration paradigm as a public interest in scientific production in the country. To achieve this objective, 1229 articles from the SPELL database were selected, which contained in the title, abstract or keyword, the expression “public administration” or “public management”. After preliminary analysis, the articles were reduced to 911, which formed the corpus of the present study. The analysis was made using bibliometric techniques and content analysis. The most cited authors were identified, the locus and focus of the articles and the paradigm of each study. The consolidation of a Public Administration paradigm as a public interest has not been confirmed. The study contributes to the identification of the stage of maturity in which the studies in the area are, as well as its historical evolution and possible trends in the field.

The objective of this research is to describe and analyze the policies adopted by some Latin American countries aimed at promoting and strengthening scientific production. This research corresponds to a descriptive and analytical work of a bibliometric order. The study uses the method of descriptive statistical analysis of data obtained from the World Bank, Scimago Journal & Country Rank and the National Directory of Researchers and Innovators. The results indicate that the research culture has been encouraged and established in most of the countries. In the case of Peru, the application of the research incentive methodology has been shown to be insufficient, the Scopus scientific indexing platform has only 8 journals considered high impact distributed between quartiles Q3 and Q4. These publications include the biomedical, veterinary, humanities, literature, psychology, philosophy, and communication disciplines. The mastery of the biomedical and veterinary thematic areas is an indicator of the local demand for indexed multidisciplinary journals that make Peruvian research visible within the national and international scientific community.

This article analyzes different bibliometric indicators on research papers which examine the issue of economic integration in the Latin American region. The documents have been obtained from the Scopus bibliographic database; a total of 564 papers published in the time span from 2000 to 2020 have been identified, processed, and analyzed using the open-source software Bibliometrix and Vos Viewer. The results achieved allow identifying elements such as volume and relevance in scientific publications by country, H-G-M index of researchers with the greatest impact, estimation of Lotka’s Law, the analysis of co-occurrence between keywords, the dynamics in publication of the main sources, and finally, the thematic evolution in the last two decades. The findings provide a better understanding of the research processes as well as a comprehensive analysis of authors, their impact and the relevant sources in the economic integration of Latin America.