OBJECTIVES: English has become the most frequently used language for scientific
communication in the biomedical field. Therefore, scholars from all over the world try to …

Can one foresee whether young scientists will publish successfully during their careers? For
academic biologists on four continents, we evaluated the effects of gender, native language …

This paper takes a critical look at the role of chronobiology in society today, with particular
reference to its entanglements with health and medicine and whether or not this amounts to …

In contrast with other countries of the Central America biodiversity “hotspot”, El Salvador has
received considerable attention from the scientometrics point of view. According to previous …

The scientific production in E-learning has an average annual growth rate of 16%, which
along with the 3.9% annual increase in the number of virtual students worldwide present a …

Despite of its small size, the Central American country of Costa Rica is internationally
recognized as one of the world leaders in conservation and as the Central American leader …

National culture is among those societal factors which could influence research and
innovation activities. In this study, we investigated the associations of two national culture …

BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated the diversity in research conducted by
anesthesia-based researchers. We examined global clinical research attributed to …

Panama is a small Central American country for which apparently there are no specific
scientometric studies. We analyzed 4 854 research documents originating in Panama in the …

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. The primary aim of this
work was toprovide an in-depth evaluation of research publications in the field of diets and …