Publications of scientists of developing countries in international journals: Are they channels to the international circuit for colleagues that only publish in national journals?

Abstract

There are very few studies on the scientific production of Argentina. They usually range from extremely general (Quesada-Allud, in press; Velasco, 1983a, 1983b) to extremely specific ones, as a study of scientific production in the area of limnology (Gabellone et. al., 1987). The present paper shows the results of a study of argentine scientists working in one particular field of endeavour: ecology. The study had a fairly specific objective: to try to evaluate the importance of argentine authors that publish both in national and international journals as a channel for international detection of argentine colleagues that publish only in national journals.