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This study proposes a methodology using OpenAlex (OA) for tracking Open Access publications in the case of Argentina, a country where a self-archiving mandate has been in effect since 2013 ( Law 26.899, 2013). A sample of 167,240 papers by researchers from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) was created and analyzed using statistical techniques. We estimate that OA is able to capture between 85-93% of authors for all disciplines, with the exception of Social Sciences and Humanities, where it only reaches an estimated 47%. The availability of papers in Open Access was calculated to be 41% for the period 1953-2021 and 46% when considering exclusively the post-law period (2014-2021). In both periods, gold Open Access made up the most common route. When comparing equal periods post and pre-law, we observed that the upward trend of gold Open Access was pre-existing to the legislation and the availability of closed articles in repositories increased by 5% to what is estimated based on existing trends. However, while the green route has had a positive evolution, it has been the publication in gold journals that has boosted access to Argentine production more rapidly. We concluded that the OA-based methodology, piloted here for the first time, is viable for tracking Open Access in Argentina since it yields percentages similar to other national and international studies. En este estudio se propone una metodolog\'ia utilizando OpenAlex (OA) para monitorear el acceso abierto (AA) a las publicaciones cient\'ificas para el caso de Argentina, pa\'is donde rige el mandato de autoarchivo -Ley 26.899 (2013)-. Se conform\'o una muestra con 167.240 art\'iculos de investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient\'ificas y T\'ecnicas (CONICET) que se analizaron con t\'ecnicas estad\'isticas. Se estim\'o que OA puede representar entre 85-93% de los autores para todas las disciplinas, excepto Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, donde solo alcanza al 47%. Se calcul\'o que 41% de los art\'iculos publicados entre 1953-2021 incluidos en la fuente est\'an en AA, porcentaje que sube a 46% al considerar exclusivamente el periodo post ley (2014-2021). En ambos periodos es la v\'ia dorada la que representa mayor proporci\'on. Al comparar periodos iguales post y pre ley, se observ\'o que la tendencia en alza de la v\'ia dorada era preexistente a la legislaci\'on y la disponibilidad de art\'iculos cerrados en repositorios aument\'o un 5% a lo que se estima en base a tendencias existentes. Se concluye que si bien la v\'ia verde ha tenido una evoluci\'on positiva, ha sido la publicaci\'on en revistas doradas lo que ha impulsado m\'as r\'apidamente el acceso a la producci\'on argentina. Asimismo, que la metodolog\'ia basada en OA, piloteada aqu\'i por primera vez, es viable para monitorear el AA en Argentina ya que arroja porcentajes similares a otros estudios nacionales e internacionales., Comment: in Spanish (en Espa\~nol)

The aim of this paper is to provide a classification of multilingual and plurilingual electronic lexicographic resources which would enable, one the one hand, the implementation of quantitative and qualitative criteria to produce a typological taxonomy of lexicographical tools, such as dictionaries, as opposed to platforms and websites and, on the other, the distinction of multilingual and plurilingual resources in terms of their larger or lesser prototyping degree. In addition to offering a thorough description of the different resources, this paper also puts forward some parameters and typological proposals to define and demarcate a number of electronic resources, particularly multilingual dictionaries and portals, while also outlining, and even questioning, the object of study of multilingual and plurilingual lexicography., Comment: 25 pages, in Spanish language

Clustering algorithms or methods for GPS trajectories are in constant evolution due to the interest aroused in part of the scientific community. With the development of clustering algorithms considered traditional, improvements to these algorithms and even unique methods considered as "novelty" for science have emerged. This work aims to analyze the scientific production that exists around the topic "GPS trajectory clustering" by means of bibliometrics. Therefore, a total of 559 articles from the main collection of Scopus were analyzed, previously filtering the generated sample to discard any article that does not have a direct relationship with the topic to be analyzed. This analysis establishes an ideal environment for other disciplines and researchers, since it provides a current state of the trend of the subject of study in their field of research. -- Los algoritmos o m\'etodos de agrupamiento para trayectorias GPS se encuentran en constante evoluci\'on debido al inter\'es que despierta en parte de la comunidad cient\'ifica. Con el desarrollo de los algoritmos de agrupamiento considerados tradicionales han surgido mejoras a estos algoritmos e incluso m\'etodos \'unicos considerados como "novedad" para la ciencia. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la producci\'on cient\'ifica que existe alrededor del tema "agrupamiento de trayectorias GPS" mediante la bibliometr\'ia. Por lo tanto, fueron analizados un total de 559 art\'iculos de la colecci\'on principal de Scopus, realizando previamente un filtrado de la muestra generada para descartar todo aquel art\'iculo que no tenga una relaci\'on directa con el tema a analizar. Este an\'alisis establece un ambiente ideal para otras disciplinas e investigadores, ya que entrega un estado actual de la tendencia que lleva la tem\'atica de estudio en su campo de investigaci\'on., Comment: 16 pages, in Spanish, 8 figures

In Colombia, astronomical research is experiencing accelerated growth. To better understand its evolution and current state, we conducted a bibliometric study using data from the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the Web of Science (WoS). In the ADS, we identified 422 peer-reviewed publications from 1980, the year of the first publication, until 2023, the cut-off year of the study. Of the 25 Colombian institutions participating in at least one publication, 14 are private and 11 are state institutions. More than half of these institutions are concentrated in two main cities: Bogot\'a with 11 institutions, followed by Medell\'in with 3 institutions. The number of contributions from four universities stands out: Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Industrial de Santander, and Universidad de Antioquia with 104, 78, 68, and 67 publications, respectively. By cross-referencing the information from the ADS and the WoS, we found that the areas in which publications with the highest impact are found are three: high energies and fundamental physics, stars and stellar physics, and galaxies and cosmology. At the global level, according to the WoS, Colombia ranks 52nd in the number of peer-reviewed publications between 2019 and 2023 and fifth in Latin America. Additionally, we identified three highly cited publications (top 1% worldwide) belonging to the field of observational cosmology., Comment: 33 pages, in Spanish language, 6 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, F\'isicas y Naturales (RACCEFYN). Texto en espa\~nol

The purpose of this systematic review is to identify and describe the state of development literature published in Latin America, in Spanish and English, since 2010. For this, we carried out a topographic review of 44 articles available in the most important bibliographic indexes of Latin America, published in journals of diverse disciplines. Our analysis focused on analyzing the nature and composition of literature, finding a large proportion of articles coming from Mexico and Colombia, as well as specialized in the economic discipline. The most relevant articles reviewed show methodological and thematic diversity, with special attention to the problem of growth in Latin American development. An important limitation of this review is the exclusion of articles published in Portuguese, as well as non-indexed literature (such as theses and dissertations). This leads to various recommendations for future reviews of the development literature produced in Latin America., Comment: Working paper, in Spanish language

This paper analyzes the evolution of coauthorship in Spain in the social sciences between 2000 and 2013. The goal is to explore to which extent limitations on the number of coauthors established by Spanish national evaluation agencies are justified. The analysis of 11681 papers authored by researchers affiliated to Spanish institutions in 20 subject categories of the social sciences reveals that there is no inflation in the number of authors, team size is similar to that found in foreign papers and the number of authors is dependent on international and institutional collaboration. With the exception of Anthropology and Special Education, in no area the average of authors by paper is higher than four. However, papers with a higher number of authors receive more citations. Overall, our results suggest that there is no justification on limiting the number of coauthors in publications, acknowledging that their inclusion in the criteria employed by Spanish evaluation agencies is to prevent honorary authors. Such limitation endangers institutional and international collaboration, and consequently, high impact research., Comment: Study written in Spanish language. Paper accepted for publication in Revista Espa\~nola de Documentacion Cientifica

The research assessments of countries or institutions should reveal their contribution to the advancement of science. Taking into consideration the correlation that exists between scientific impact and number of citations, research assessments can be based on citation counts. However, it is crucial to perform the counts in the heavy tail of citation distributions. Following this heavy tail approach, all measurements performed in Spanish universities show that their research is inefficient because the proportion of highly cited papers is much lower than in the most scientifically advanced countries. The same conclusion is reached when considering the number of researchers in the Ioannidis, Boyack, and Baas lists of highly cited researchers., Comment: 13 pages, in Spanish, 1 figure, 5 tables

The present paper wishes to extend the theoretical reflections that we're currently working on: the "satellite intellectuals". This concept points a new "repertoire" of intellectuals that critics have not studied thoroughly and that is emerging with the amplification of the archives' digitalization of archives and their digital edition. Today, it is necessary to rethink and reevaluate the criteria we used to apply to define, integrate or exclude works and authors from, or in, a "canon". At the same time, it suggests new methods to process and deal with some concepts of computer tools and science., Comment: in Spanish

In 2011, the programme for Severo Ochoa Centers of Excellence and Mar\'ia de Maeztu Units of Excellence was launched for the first time. Since this programme has become one of the axes of the Spanish scientific policy. 186 million euros have been distributed and 26 centers and 16 units have been accredited. One of the most relevant criteria for submission is the need for guarantor researchers to have a Normalized Impact of 1.5. In this work, we critically analyze the origin of this bibliometric indicator rooted in the 1980s, the different variants that have been proposed and the limitations its use in this programme have. Finally, we offer a series of practical recommendations for a more accurate use of normalized impact indicators for evaluative purposes., Comment: Paper published in Spanish language in El profesional de la informaci\'on

Here I present an investigation on the evolution and use of vocabulary in data science in the last 13 years. Based on a rigorous statistical analysis, a database with 12,787 documents containing the words "data science" in the title, abstract or keywords is analyzed. It is proposed to classify the evolution of this discipline in three periods: emergence, growth and boom. Characteristic words and pioneering documents are identified for each period. By proposing the distinctive vocabulary and relevant topics of data science and classified in time periods, these results add value to the scientific community of this discipline., Comment: 14 Pages, in Spanish language. 5 Figures

The scientific community is facing one of its greatest challenges in solving a global health problem: COVID-19 pandemic. This situation has generated an unprecedented volume of publications. What is the volume, in terms of publications, of research on COVID-19? The general objective of this research work is to obtain a global vision of the daily growth of scientific production on COVID-19 in different databases (Dimensions, Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus-Elsevier, Pubmed and eight repositories). In relation to the results obtained, Dimensions indexes a total of 9435 publications (69% with peer review and 2677 preprints) well above Scopus (1568) and WoS (718). This is a classic biliometric phenomenon of exponential growth (R2 = 0.92). The global growth rate is 500 publications and the production doubles every 15 days. In the case of Pubmed the weekly growth is around 1000 publications. Of the eight repositories analysed, Pubmed Central, Medrxiv and SSRN are the leaders. Despite their enormous contribution, the journals continue to be the core of scientific communication. Finally, it has been established that three out of every four publications on the COVID-19 are available in open access. The information explosion demands a serious and coordinated response from information professionals, which places us at the centre of the information pandemic., Comment: in Spanish

In recent years, new indicators known as altmetrics have been introduced to measure the impact of scientific activity. These indicators are obtained through the mentions realised from different social media, existing several aggregators of these data that collect several of them in the same database, being Altmetric.com the most popular. However, in spite of the popularization of these metrics, several limitations in their use have been manifested. For this reason, rhe objective of this work is twofold: (1) to show the possibilities of altimetric techniques applied to the Spanish social sciences in general and sociology in particular; (2) to critically analyse the results to observe the limitations of these indicators; (3) to check whether they can really add useful information that can be used to describe a scientific field and (4) to see the reasons why altmetrics cannot be applied in these fields., Comment: in Spanish, Cap\'itulo aceptado para su publicaci\'on en una monograf\'ia de la editorial CIS-Centro de Investigaci\'on Sociol\'ogicas

Decision making often requires information that must be Provided with the rich data format. Addressing these new requirements appropriately makes it necessary for government agencies to orchestrate large amounts of information from different sources and formats, to be efficiently delivered through the devices commonly used by people, such as computers, netbooks, tablets and smartphones. To overcome these problems, a model is proposed for the conceptual representation of the State's organizational units, seen as georeferenced entities of Electronic Government, based on ontologies designed under the principles of Linked Open Data, which allows the automatic extraction of information through the machines, which supports the process of governmental decision making and gives citizens full access to find and process through mobile technologies., Comment: 10 pages, in Spanish

Numerous institutions and organizations need not only to preserve the material and publications they produce, but also have as their task (although it would be desirable it was an obligation) to publish, disseminate and make publicly available all the results of the research and any other scientific/academic material. The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and the introduction of Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), make this task much easier. The main objective of this work is to make a comparative and qualitative study of the data -metadata specifically- contained in the whole set of Argentine repositories listed in the ROAR portal, focusing on the functional perspective of the quality of this metadata. Another objective is to offer an overview of the status of these repositories, in an attempt to detect common failures and errors institutions incur when storing the metadata of the resources contained in these repositories, and thus be able to suggest measures to be able to improve the load and further retrieval processes. It was found that the eight most used Dublin Core fields are: identifier, type, title, date, subject, creator, language and description. Not all repositories fill all the fields, and the lack of normalization, or the excessive use of fields like language, type, format and subject is somewhat striking, and in some cases even alarming, Comment: BIREDIAL-ISTEC 2017, in Spanish

The objective of this article is to describe the academic impact, the editorial process quality, and the editorial and visibility strategies of Bibliotecas. Anales de Investigacion (BAI), a scientific Cuban journal edited by National Library of Cuba Jose Marti. The academic impact is determined through a citation analysis, which considers Google Scholar database as reference source. The bibliometric indicators applied are: citation per year, citation vs. self-citation, citable journals vs. non-citable documents, Hirsch Index, and impact factor. The editorial process quality and the visibility strategies are determined through a self-evaluation which takes into account the SciELO, Scopus, CLASE, Redalyc, Latindex, Dialnet, and ERIH PLUS methodologies. The results reveal an ascending citation line that highlights citing journals from the field of Library and Information Science, Medicine and Health Sciences, and Education. Aspects related content and format have negatively influenced on editorial process quality. Some strategies are proposed to improve scientific visibility through the inclusion in databases, directories, and social and academic networks. In general, this study contributes to the editorial decision taking, an issue that could augment the impact and scientific visibility of BAI., Comment: in Spanish, Biblios, 2016

Main characteristics of Google Scholar Metrics new version (july 2013) are presented. We outline the novelties and the weaknesses detected after a first analysis. As main conclusion, we remark the lack of new functionalities with respect to last editions, as the only modification is the update of the timeframe (2008-2012). Hence, problems pointed out in our last reviews still remain active. Finally, it seems Google Scholar Metrics will be updated in a yearly basis, Comment: 10 pages, in Spanish, 8 figures