Productividad e impacto de las ciencias sociales argentinas: economía y sociología en el CONICET

This article analyzes the productivity and impact of Argentine scientific research in economics and sociology in Scopus and Google Scholar. The main goal of this research was to examine the effect of the orientation of researchers towards greater visibility on their productivity and academic impact in the bibliometric database Scopus. The findings indicate that researchers in economics have higher levels of productivity and impact in Scopus than their peers in sociology. On the other hand, it is observed that visibility in Scopus has a positive effect on impact, operationalized by the Scopus h-index, in both economics and sociology; while it only has a positive impact on the Google Scholar h-index in the case of sociology. Considering productivity (number of documents) in Google Scholar as the dependent variable, visibility in Scopus affects it negatively and statistically significantly only in sociology. If productivity in Scopus is analyzed, visibility in Scopus has a positive effect on both disciplines.