Connecting and empowering the Latin American research community in the global sphere: an introduction to the special issue on the metric study of regional science and technology

In the early 2000s, a group of Latin American specialists headed by Gilberto Sotolongo Aguilar of Cuba and Cesar Macías Chapula from México, began to forge the idea of organizing a meeting to serve as a forum for discussion and exchange of knowledge on issues associated with the metric studies of in...

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Published in:Scientometrics 2018-06, Vol.115 (3), p.1439-1441
Main Authors: Russell, Jane M., Guzmán, María Victoria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Science
Information Storage and Retrieval
Knowledge sharing
Library Science
Organizational aspects
Qualitative research
Scientometrics
Seminars
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Summary:In the early 2000s, a group of Latin American specialists headed by Gilberto Sotolongo Aguilar of Cuba and Cesar Macías Chapula from México, began to forge the idea of organizing a meeting to serve as a forum for discussion and exchange of knowledge on issues associated with the metric studies of information. It was intended that this event follow the organizational model of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) Conferences but directed principally at researchers in Ibero-America, particularly those working in Latin America. As a result, the First International Seminar on the Quantitative and Qualitative Study of Science and Technology was held in Havana, Cuba in the spring of 2002. Due to the untimely death of one of its founders, Gilberto Sotolongo, the biennial meeting from 2004 onwards, was named in his honour, “Prof. Gilberto Sotolongo Aguilar”.
ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-018-2745-3