BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION OF RESEARCHERS WITH PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OFFICE OF THE UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA (ARGENTINA): 1996-1999

Abstract

The aim of this analysis is to trace the scientific production of the directors and collaborators whose investigation projects had been approved by the Department of Science and Technology of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba during 1996 – 1999. These projects were used as a sample of scientific productivity, and the application of bibliometric laws on the analysis of the scientific production of
fourteen academic units, made it possible to identify who publishes and where the researchers publish their work. The investigation concluded that, from 1997
until 1998, there was a small increase of projects, which was not significant; the difference between the participation of authors of one or the other gender was not significant, either; the multiple authorship was predominant, and the works written by two or three authors in collaboration, were the most frequently found. Concerning the most productive authors, the research indicated that, the more significant was his/her collaboration, the less was his/her fractional productivity. Finally, it became clear that investigators mainly publish their work in international publications/ periodicals; while they do it less frequently in national periodicals and conferences. This result reinforces another conclusion of the investigation, which is that, the investigators of academic units converge their production to the scientific magazines.