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Title: | b-on's evolution and its contribution to the development of Portuguese science |
Authors: | Costa, Teresa Lopes, Carlos Vaz, Francisco |
Keywords: | b-on Produção científica Bibliometria Portugal |
Issue Date: | Nov-2013 |
Publisher: | ACM |
Abstract: | In recent years several initiatives have taken place to promote
universal access to the Information and Knowledge Society. It
was in this context that in 2004 the Online Knowledge Library (bon)
was launched in Portugal. With it, it became easier to get
access to full text international scientific publications. This study
aims to present and analyze some bibliometric indicators of the
Portuguese scientific output seeking to evaluate its link it with bon.
It was analyzed the usage of b-on resources by the public
universities members of the consortium from 2004 to 2010, and
we chose as sample the five universities with more downloads per
FTE (full time equivalent).In addition to the usage data of the
consortium, we used the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus from
which we identified the articles indexed with Portuguese
affiliation and by the five Portuguese universities between 2000-
2010. In WoS we found 79.192 articles indexed with at least one
Portuguese author, published in the years under analysis, 40.413
have affiliation at least in one of the five universities considered
in this study (51%). In Scopus the number of articles is similar,
62.634 articles for Portugal from which 33.417 have affiliation in
at least one of the five universities (54%).We identified the
research areas with the largest number of articles. The national
scientific production concerning the scientific areas is relatively
diverse in accordance with both databases: Chemistry, Physics
Engineering, Materials Sciences and Biochemistry Molecular
Biology are the subject areas with more indexed articles in WoS;
Medicine, Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, Biochemistry,
Genetics and Molecular Biology and Chemistry in Scopus . The
same article can have multiple authors, with different institutional
affiliations from different nationalities. The Portuguese
international co-authorship is growing in the recent years, mainly
with the USA, Spain and United Kingdom. We conclude that the
availability and access to electronic resources contributes to the
increased of the scientific productivity of the universities and that
the study and analysis of its use and output are essential. |
URI: | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2536536.2536595 http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16292 |
Type: | lecture |
Appears in Collections: | CIDEHUS - Comunicações - Em Congressos Científicos Nacionais
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