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      Cooperation in the Latin American behavioral sciences: Motivation, evaluation and difficulties Translated title: Cooperación en las ciencias del comportamiento latinoamericanas: Motivación, evaluación y dificultades

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          This study investigated the motivation for establishing partnerships, how these partnerships are evaluated, and the difficulties encountered in the partnerships among Latin-Americanresearchersin behavioral sciences. A hundred Latin-American researchers who had published scientific work indexed in Psycinfo in which another author from the continent participated. The participants answer0ed a questionnaire on theabove-mentioned topics. The results indicated that the main reasons for establishing partnerships with other Latin-Americans were to seek broader and more significant results and increased productivity or the visibility and recognition of production. As regards the evaluation of the results of the partnership, most participants indicated that the partnership has resulted in an increase in publications and publications of higher scientific level and greater visibility. Several difficulties were recognized, whichin general, were access and communicationin order to maintain the partnership. The main difficulties in conduct in gresearch were related to the final writing of the paper, as an article, chapter or other, as well as data collection. In terms of work infrastructure, the main barriers were financial constraints and lack of time to devote to the partnership. It can be concluded that the main reasons to cooperate are qualitative and quantitative advances, and that the difficulties in the partnerships are secondary.

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          Este estudio investigó la motivación para el establecimiento de asociaciones para cooperación, cómo se evalúan estas asociaciones y las dificultades encontradas entre los investigadores latinoamericanos en ciencias de la conducta. Participaron un centenar de investigadores latinoamericanos que habían publicado trabajos científicos indexados en Psycinfo con otro autor del continente. Los participantes respondieron a un cuestionario sobre los temas antes mencionados. Los Resultados indicaron que las principales razones para el establecimiento de asociaciones para cooperar con otros latinoamericanos fueron: buscar resultados más amplios y significativos y aumento de la productividad o de la visibilidad y el reconocimiento de la producción. En cuanto a la evaluación de los resultados de la asociación, la mayoría indicó que la asociación se ha traducido en aumento de las publicaciones, en publicaciones de mayor nivel científico y en una mayor visibilidad. Se reconocieron varias dificultades. En general, las principales dificultades fueron el acceso y la comunicación para mantener la asociación. Las principales dificultades para llevar a cabo la investigación se relacionan con la redacción final del documento, como un artículo, capítulo u otro, y la recopilación de datos. En cuanto a la infraestructura de trabajo, las principales barreras fueron las limitaciones financieras y la falta de tiempo para dedicar a la asociación. Se puede concluir que las principales razones para cooperar son los avances cualitativos y cuantitativos, y que las dificultades en las asociaciones son secundarias.

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              World Scientific Production in Psychology

              This study examines world scientific production in Psychology based on bibliometric indicators (scientific production, production's percentage variation, average citations per document, normalized citation, impact, etc.), for the period 2003-2008. The analysis is made by country, by research institutions, and scientific journals, using the Scopus (Elsevier), database of scientific literature. The results show that total world production has increased over the period studied. Four groups are acknowledge for each country, institutions, and journals, taking into account their values of scientific production, normalized citation, and subject specialization.

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                Journal
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                Suma Psicológica
                Suma Psicol.
                Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz (Bogotá, , Colombia )
                0121-4381
                December 2016
                : 23
                : 2
                : 125-132
                Affiliations
                [02] Bogotá orgnamePontificia Universidad Javeriana Colombia
                [03] Brasilia orgnameUniversidade Católica de Brasília Brazil
                [01] Vitoria orgnameUniversidade Federal do Espírito Santo Brazil
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                S0121-43812016000200007
                10.1016/j.sumpsi.2016.08.002
                d90a890a-7ed0-4187-a88a-95a24102f8ba

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 26 August 2016
                : 30 June 2016
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                Motivación,Latin-America,América Latina,Comunidades académicas,Psicología,Academic communities,Scientific cooperation,Cooperación científica,Psychology,Motivation

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