Abstract

ROJAS-SOLA, José Ignacio  and  JORDA-ALBINANA, Begoña. Bibliometric analysis of Mexican scientific production in hydraulic engineering based on journals in the Science Citation Index-Expanded database (1997-2008). Tecnol. cienc. agua [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.4, pp.195-1213. ISSN 2007-2422.

The objective of this work was, first, to identify hydraulic engineering journals published throughout Latin America. To this end, the initial focus was to review the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-E) database for journals associated with two categories-water resources and civil engineering. This resulted in a total of 20. Second, a bibliometric analysis was performed of papers published in those journals between 1997 and 2008 by Mexican research institutions. This analysis found 373 papers in the 20 journals, of which 298 were in Spanish, 73 in English and 2 in French. Mexico has become the second most published country in Latin American in terms of scientific articles and has the third greatest sum of mean impact for the journals in which they are published. Furthermore, the journal Ingeniería Hidráulica en México (Hydraulic Engineering in Mexico) represents 81% of all Mexican and 33.51% of all Latin American scientific production. International collaborations were also identified, mainly with the United States, France and Spain.

Keywords : bibliometrics; hydraulic engineering; scientific production; Mexico; Science Citation Index-Expanded.