Mapping of Scientific Production in Social Sciences in Ecuador

Abstract:

In recent years, Ecuador has experienced an increase in scientific production. Thus, in the year 2013, Scopus database had a number of 737 articles published, and in the following two years it grew a percentage of 32% (976) and 59% (1174). This growth has been conditioned by two aspects. The first from international origin, where the quality of scientific work was measured through scientific production in high-impact databases. The second, from national origin, focused on the new policies of Higher Education, where the processes of evaluation and accbkp_reditation valued significantly the scientific production. In this context, the measurement of scientific production has been aggregated without distinguishing particularities inherent to the areas of knowledge. In Ecuador, the Social Sciences (SS) showed a total number of 41 publications in 2013, increasing to 61 and 142 in the following two years; nevertheless …

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2019

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