Cuban scientific articles in ISI Citation Indexes and CubaCiencias databases (1988-2003)

Authors: Araujo Ruiz, Juan A.¹; van Hooydonk, Guido²; Torricella Morales, Raul G.³; Arencibia Jorge, Ricardo⁴

Source: Scientometrics, Volume 65, Number 2, November 2005 , pp. 161-171(11)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

<Para OutputMedium="All">This comparative study covers the period 1988-2003 of the Institute for Scientific Information Databases (ISI-DBs), CD-ROM edition: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) as international databases and from the CubaCiencias (CubaCiencias) as an internal database. The number of articles published in Cuban journals, ISI-DBs, the author associativeness trend, the most important institutions and other indicators are collected. However, it is observed that CubaCiencias and ISI-DBs are not perfectly suitable for a study of the productivity of Cuban authors. It is necessary to properly standardize the author fields. For bibliometric studies, Cuba needs a database not only for the published papers in Cuban journals, but also for all the papers published by Cuban authors.</Para>

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-005-0265-4

Affiliations: 1: National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC). Department of Scientific Information, P. O. Box 4145, CP 10 400, Ciudad de La Habana, CUBA, 2: University of Gent, Department of Library Sciences, Belgium, 3: Ministry of Higher Education (MES), Havana City (Cuba), 4: National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC). Department of Scientific Information, Havana City (Cuba),

Publication date: 2005-11-01