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Centro de Convenciones Charles Darwin. San Cristóbal.Galápagos, Ecuador
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Actual status of the research publication process in Colombia

24 nov. 2022 8:45
15m
Centro de Convenciones Charles Darwin. San Cristóbal.Galápagos, Ecuador

Centro de Convenciones Charles Darwin. San Cristóbal.Galápagos, Ecuador

Oral Language Oral session

Ponente

Mrs Paula Rivera-Quintero (Polytechnique Montréal- Dept. of Chemical Engineering)

Descripción

From the point of view of the authors, there are pros and cons in producing scientific literature, i.e., funds are needed for research projects and publications are usually mandatory products at the end of the process yet accessing most of funding programs requires a certified publishing experience.

In such matter, el Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación (Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry) of Colombia has implemented a model to classify scientific journals according to specific characteristics such as content level, accessibility, and citation among others, assigning them in quartiles levels (Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 levels). This office is also in charge of administering Colombian funds for research projects with requirements of publication in highly ranked journals at Q2 and even Q1 level.

In most cases, the timeframe established for writing a publication is not enough and corresponds with the same period of time assigned to the whole project. For this reason, researchers are always in a hurry leading sometimes to weak publications with a lack of thorough discussion.

However, professors, research groups leaders and even students are forced to have certified experience in publications if they want to keep competitive in their research careers. In some cases, academic institutes in the private sector require a certain amount of publications per year to their faculty members with the risk of losing their jobs when failing to do so. In the public sector, the mission of academics is usually framed into three main pillars: instruction, research and community reach activities though research is the only one that allows them a secure way to improve their income but the time assigned to do it is limited when compared to instruction. In particular, research group leaders should, on top of the latter, spend a considerable amount of time administrating the group e.g. communications, accounting, event planning, schedule designing, supervising, etc.
In the case of students, graduate programs tuitions in private institutions are pricey though having research experience is not usually required. On the other hand, public institutions fees for graduate programs are usually lower or provide scholarships but research experience, i.e., publications and scientific events participation, is almost always required. In most cases, scholarships and job positions requisites include publication experience.

Finally, highly ranked journals are generally written in English which is not an official language in Colombia. Although English has become very popular, only those with a possibility of attend language academies can improve their English skills. Public schools have English as a compelled subject in their curricula; however, English level is not adequate since there are not enough teachers to cover all the schools. For this reason, most of researchers should compose their papers in Spanish or “thinking in Spanish” making the process tough and slower.

In conclusion, Colombia is on its way to compete internationally in journal publications though that way is long and substantial improvements should be implemented by the government if speeding the process is wanted.

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Autores primarios

Mrs Paula Rivera-Quintero (Polytechnique Montréal- Dept. of Chemical Engineering) Mrs Luz Marina Ballesteros-Rueda (Centro de Investigaciones en Catálisis (@CICAT UIS), Universidad Industrial de Santander) Mr Hernando Guerrero-Amaya (Centro de Investigaciones en Catálisis (@CICAT UIS), Universidad Industrial de Santander)

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