Maria Alejandra Tejada

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Invitation Doctora Defense

The logic of international rankings standards has favoured scientometric indicators for measuring research, focusing mainly on evaluating scientific journals’ citations and impact factors. This focus has led national science policy makers to revise their research evaluation models to comply with international standards, prompting changes in scienti...

Durante el periodo 2015-2017, en Colombia se modificaron los criterios utilizados por el Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Colciencias) para la indexación de revistas especializadas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación en Publindex. Estos cambios han conllevado tensiones entre los editores, las instituciones y Colcienc...

The purpose of the present paper is to assess the current situation of the science and technology system in Colombia from a comparative perspective of quality indicators in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We analyze the development of the science and technology policy in Colombia form a historical perspective. Our comparative analysis shows...

RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Los nuevos retos de las instituciones de investigación están atados a la internacionalización regida por políticas de los organismos supranacionales y los rankings universitarios o de investigación, así como por las políticas de los sistemas de ciencia y tecnología e innovación de cada país. Este trabajo se enfoca en realizar un a...

The future of scientific journals in Latin America is uncertain. The inability to calculate bibliometric indicators to classify and homologate journals according to globally-used quartiles reduces journal visibility. For instance, Colombian journals classified in the National Bibliographic Database Publindex (BBNP) under categories A1, A2, B and C,...

Colombian scientific journals are poorly represented in international digital libraries; however, through Google Scholar (GS) it is possible to determine their use by the community. Between the years of 2003 and 2007 a classification of 185 Colombian journals indexed in the Colombian National Bibliographical Index (IBNP) was performed using the inf...