Invisible Publications: A Study of Academic Productivity in the Web of Science Database

Eliandro Schvirck; Caroline Lievore; Priscila Rubbo; José Roberto Herrera Cantorani; Luiz Alberto Pilatti

doi:10.3989/redc.2024.1.1454

Autores/as

Eliandro Schvirck Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1957-9115
Caroline Lievore Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2448-089X
Priscila Rubbo Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2488-4627
José Roberto Herrera Cantorani Federal Institute of São Paulo (IFSP). Department of Program in Production Engineering https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1792-0383
Luiz Alberto Pilatti Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2679-9191

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2024.1.1454

Palabras clave:

Productividad académica, citación, Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, publicaciones invisibles

Resumen

El propósito de este estudio es examinar el panorama contemporáneo de la publicación académica, con énfasis específico en la difusión y evaluación de la investigación académica y en las características de los artículos indexados en la base de datos Web of Science, en el marco temporal de 2017 a 2021, que no han sido citados o han sido citados con poca frecuencia. Se utilizó la estadística descriptiva para caracterizar la muestra según el campo de investigación. Se utilizó un método de regresión binomial negativa para estimar qué variables influyen en el número de citas recibidas por los artículos de la muestra. Encontramos que de los 256.524 artículos que componen el corpus de investigación, 39.469 (15,39%) no recibieron citas y 91.963 artículos (35,85%) recibieron hasta cuatro citas. Concluimos que las presiones de la productividad académica crean un círculo vicioso en el que los estudios son referenciados en función de su posición en la lucha por un espacio editorial privilegiado.

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