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Call for Papers. Special Issue: Ibero-American Scientometrics

2024-10-09

Submission dates: 15/10/2024        30/05/2025

Guest Editors:

  • Zaida Chinchilla (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC). España.
  • Ricardo Arencibia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). México.
  • Rogério Mugnaini (Universidade de São Paulo) Brasil.

Robert Broadus notes that Bibliometrics originated when the librarians of Alexandria began counting their papyrus volumes (1987), setting a precedent for the quantitative analysis of the production and organization of knowledge. The development of scientometrics in Ibero-America has followed a unique path, influenced both by global trends and the region’s particular characteristics. Although the concepts and tools for quantitative analysis of science began to develop in the United States and Europe in the mid-20th century, it was in recent decades that these fields began to consolidate in Hispanic America (Hispania being the territory that would now correspond to Spain and Portugal).