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      Impacto y calidad de la productividad académica de los investigadores en Colombia en neurociencia comportamental utilizando modelos animales Translated title: Impact and quality of academic production of Colombian researchers in Behavioral Neuroscience using animal models

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          La productividad científica colombiana es limitada considerando indicadores como el número de artículos publicados en revistas de alto impacto y el índice h. La ausencia de una línea de base y de metodologías de comparación de productividad dificulta trazar las expectativas de publicación provenientes de las instancias nacionales. El objetivo del presente estudio fue evaluar de manera comparativa aspectos relacionados con el impacto y la calidad de la productividad académica de los investigadores en neurociencia comportamental utilizando modelos animales en Colombia. Esto se hizo por medio de la descripción de la población total de investigadores activos en Colombia y la definición de una muestra comparativa de investigadores internacionales. Luego se determinaron en Scopus las métricas asociadas con producción de artículos científicos para cada investigador. Finalmente, se identificó el cuartil de las revistas en las que publicaron los investigadores para un subconjunto de artículos en el Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR; Scimago Lab). Se encontró que aunque los investigadores en Colombia presentan una tasa importante de publicación (0.9 artículos por año), cuando se hace un análisis comparativo están rezagados en todos los aspectos de productividad con relación a investigadores internacionales. Se espera que la metodología propuesta pueda extenderse a la evaluación del impacto y calidad de la productividad en temáticas específicas de otras áreas de investigación.

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          High-impact academic research productivity in Colombia is limited. The absence of baselines and methodologies for meaningful comparisons with other countries complicates productivity projections from academic institutions. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the impact and quality of the academic productivity of researchers working on behavioral neuroscience using animal models in Colombia. The total population of active researchers in Colombia was described, and a comparative international sample of researchers was determined. Subsequently, for each researcher, we analyzed metrics associated to scientific productivity using Scopus and the journal position in Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR; Scimago Lab) of a sample of published articles. We report that, although there is an important rate of productivity for researchers in Colombia (0.9 articles per year), all aspects related to productivity were notably lower when compared to a sample of international researchers. Analyses of academic productivity in other scientific areas in Colombia may be enriched by the proposed methodology.

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          Traditionally, the success of a researcher is assessed by the number of publications he or she publishes in peer-reviewed, indexed, high impact journals. This essential yardstick, often referred to as the impact of a specific researcher, is assessed through the use of various metrics. While researchers may be acquainted with such matrices, many do not know how to use them to enhance their careers. In addition to these metrics, a number of other factors should be taken into consideration to objectively evaluate a scientist's profile as a researcher and academician. Moreover, each metric has its own limitations that need to be considered when selecting an appropriate metric for evaluation. This paper provides a broad overview of the wide array of metrics currently in use in academia and research. Popular metrics are discussed and defined, including traditional metrics and article-level metrics, some of which are applied to researchers for a greater understanding of a particular concept, including varicocele that is the thematic area of this Special Issue of Asian Journal of Andrology. We recommend the combined use of quantitative and qualitative evaluation using judiciously selected metrics for a more objective assessment of scholarly output and research impact.
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            This article provides a broad overview of widely available measures of academic productivity and impact using publication data and highlights uses of these metrics for various purposes. Metrics based on publication data include measures such as number of publications, number of citations, the journal impact factor score, and the h-index, as well as emerging metrics based on document-level metrics. Publication metrics can be used for a variety of purposes for tenure and promotion, grant applications and renewal reports, benchmarking, recruiting efforts, and administrative purposes for departmental or university performance reports. The authors also highlight practical applications of measuring and reporting academic productivity and impact to emphasize and promote individual investigators, grant applications, or department output. © 2014 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
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                Universitas Psychologica
                Univ. Psychol.
                Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, , Colombia )
                1657-9267
                December 2016
                : 15
                : spe5
                : 1-12
                Affiliations
                [02] orgnameFundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz Colombia
                [03] orgnameFundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz Colombia
                [04] orgnameFundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz Colombia
                [01] orgnameFundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz Colombia
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                S1657-92672016000500026
                10.11144/Javeriana.upsy15-5.icpa
                f397cce0-1e2b-4b5a-9093-c16b5b782be6

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

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                : 22 July 2016
                : 01 December 2016
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