Visibility of Latin American scientific production on cognitive neurosciences

Abstract

Introduction: cognitive neuroscience is the convergence of two disciplines, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, which have provided information on the material bases of the cognitive and emotional processes of human behavior. There are currently few records of bibliometric studies on Latin American scientific production in cognitive neuroscience in SCOPUS. Objective: to describe the behavior of the Latin American scientific production on cognitive neuroscience in SCOPUS in the years 2012 to 2022. Methods: a bibliometric, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on the behavior of the scientific production in Latin America on cognitive neuroscience in SCOPUS. A search was made of the data offered by Scimago Journal & Country Rank on the publications, from the “Neurosciences” area, “Latin America” region and “Cognitive Neurosciences” category. It used the descriptive statistic. Results: a total of 3717 documents were published. 2022 was highlighted as the year with the largest number of published documents (514). A total of 55,107 appointments were made in this period, with the highest number of appointments being made in 2016 (9,225). A total of 10,538 self-citations were made and citations per document reached their highest values in 2015 (3,685). Brazil prevailed with an h index of 98. Conclusions: the Latin American scientific production in SCOPUS on cognitive neurosciences, during the 10 years studied, was high and growing, which predicts great results in this branch for years to come and is satisfactory considering the thousands of questions that arise every day and concern this area of knowledge.