Abstract
Through a co-occurrence bibliometric and citation analysis of 1.272 texts published in the four Colombian engineering journals available in Scopus between 2014 and 2018, this paper identified that most articles belong to supply chain optimization and logistics and involve work with information that requires minimal laboratory experimentation. Works applying artificial neural networks, clustering, and genetic algorithms are also prominent. Results from researching on biomass analysis on bioenergy and sustainability are more recent and are present to a lesser extent. Most of the reference texts of the articles published come from Spanish-speaking countries and mostly cite DYNA, the European Journal of Operational Research, the Journal of Food Engineering, and Ingeniería e Investigación.
Highlights
It was found that: i) generally, the Colombian academic production on engineering comes mainly from Universidad Nacional and Universidad de Antioquia, and focuses on recognized Latin American journals such as DYNA, Revista Facultad de Ingeniería, and Revista Ingeniería e Investigación [2]; ii) it is characterized for the low citation of its articles [2], and iii) about half of the texts on Colombian engineering journals in Scopus are written in Spanish, by authors from non-English speaking countries [3]
Colombian engineering journals in Scopus show a different dynamic from the journals ranked in the same quartile: i) fewer texts have been published in the last three years than the average of Q3 journals; ii) their number of citations during the last three years is lower than the average of Q3 journals, and iii) the citations per text for the last two years are higher than Q3 journals for Ingeniería e Investigación and Ingeniería y Universidad, and lower for DYNA and Revista Facultad de Ingeniería (TABLE II)
In engineering and the aggregate of Colombian journals, most texts are signed by authors affiliated to Colombia and with some participation by Spain, Brazil, and other Latin American countries
Summary
The dynamics of Colombian journals in the Scielo database show that: i) Colombian journals are the leading destination of texts with Colombia affiliation; between 2002 and 2013, 12,534 articles (81.9%) were published in these journals; ii) the journals with most articles published were Biomédica (449), Revista de Salud Pública (438) and Agronomía Colombiana (369); iii) most collaboration is between Colombian authors (56%), whereas the most prominent international collaboration was with Spain (438, 2.9%), Brazil (422, 2.8%), and the USA (418, 2.8%) Both the titles of the journals where articles are published, and the articles' themes show that health sciences, engineering, and biology are the most significant fields of the bibliographic production of Colombian scientific research published in the region's journals [1]. According to SJR, a detailed look at the quartile classification shows that: i) the four journals were part of quartile three in 2017; ii) DYNA achieved quartile two between 2012 and 2016; iii) in 2017, the classification by SJR showed that Ingeniería and Investigación (0,189) in the first place, followed by Revista Facultad de Ingeniería (0,172), DYNA (0,167), and Ingeniería y Universidad (0.161), and iv) the h-index shows DYNA (11) in the first place, followed by Revista Facultad de Ingeniería (9), Ingeniería e Investigación (7) and Ingeniería y Universidad (4), which are relatively low indexes compared to similar journals in quartile three.
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