Latin American Research Publications Rising Fast

Latin American scientists are producing more scientific papers and having those papers cited more widely, according to a recent study. From 2000 to 2010, the number of scholarly papers published in journals indexed in Scopus bibliographic database and authored by Latin American researchers rose by more than nine per cent a year, according to the study published in November in Research Trends.

The region's share of global papers increased by nearly 70 per cent in the same period. "The overall volume of scientific publications in the world is growing at around three per cent per year, so nine per cent is a fast active growth in comparison," Sarah Huggett, the study's author and publishing information manager at Elsevier, tells SciDev.Net...