Portal de indicadores bibliométricos BIBLAT

Abstract

Recently, the relevance of bibliometric and scientometric indicators has been increased by some of new rank- ings that compare and evaluate the performance of all world universities. Notwithstanding the methodological differences between these rankings all of them use the data from Web of Science and Scopus. However, these rankings and databases are not sufficiently representative of the Latin American and the Caribbean science. This situation is adverse for the recognition of the regional scientific production published in journals that have not been indexed in the major journal databases. This paper presents the objectives, functionality and informatic platform of BIBLAT, a project focused in the generation of regional science indicators. BIBLAT portal is supported by clase and periodica, both of the oldest and most representative journal databases from Latin America and the Caribbean. The indicators generated by BIBLAT are based on measurement of productivity in terms of the number of articles published by author, author’s institutions/universities and their nationality, journals and their nationality, knowledge areas, and intra and extra regional collaboration.
Keywords: Bibliometric indicators, Latin America, scientific journals, http Protocol, html, Javascript, url, opac, databases, interface, php, mysql, client-server, free software, clase, periódica, aleph.