Are the Publications of Mexican Astronomers in Line with World Trends?
María Magdalena Sierra Flores1★, Alejandro Cristian Raga2, Juan Claudio Toledo Roy2★ Corresponding author
- 1Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, MEXICO.
- 2Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM, MEXICO.
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María Magdalena Sierra Flores
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, MEXICO.
Received: 01-12-2020; Revised: 01-02-2021; Accepted: 29-03-2021.
Volume 10, Issue 1 · pp. 74–83 · PUBLISHED · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.9
ABSTRACT
We present an evaluation of the 2010-2019 production of refereed papers by Mexican astronomers. We show that the yearly number of papers grows by a factor of ~ 2 (over this period), and that this growth appears to be due to the combination of a decrease in the av erage fraction of Mexican co-authors and an increase in the number of Mexican research ers active in astronomy. We also show the behaviour of a set of chosen astronomical f ields, and an evaluation of Mexican institutions with active astronomers. We find that the growth of Mexican astronomical publications in the 2010-2019 period can be explained as a combination of the growth in the number of researchers (as found in studies of the dominant countries in astronomical research) and also of a growing “import industry” of research papers. This latter mechanism is due to a trend of growing participation of small numbers of Mexican astronomers in large collaborations with foreign researchers. Finally, a comparison of these results with astronomical publications of countries with large numbers of researchers is made.
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Flores, M. M. S., Raga, A. C., & Roy, J. C. T. (). Are the Publications of Mexican Astronomers in Line with World Trends?. Journal of Scientometric Research, 10(1), 74–83. https://doi.org/10.5530/jscires.10.1.9