In Colombia, astronomical research is experiencing accelerated growth. In order to better understand its evolution and current state, we conducted a bibliometric study using data from the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Web of Science (WoS). In ADS, we identified 422 peer-reviewed publications from 1980, the year of the first publication, until 2023, which was the cutoff date for our study. Among the 25 Colombian institutions identified as participants in at least one publication, the contributions of four universities stand out: Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad Industrial de Santander, and Universidad de Antioquia, with 104, 78, 68, and 67 publications, respectively. By cross-referencing information from ADS and WoS, we found that the areas with the greatest impact in publications are threefold: high-energy and fundamental physics, stars and stellar physics, and galaxies and cosmology. Globally, according to WoS, Colombia ranks 52nd in the number of peer-reviewed publications between 2019 and 2023, and fifth in Latin America. Additionally, we identified three highly cited publications (top 1% worldwide) belonging to the field of observational cosmology. When analyzing countries with equal or greater bibliographic production, we estimate that Colombian production is approximately four times lower than expected considering its population and GDP.
翻译:在哥伦比亚,天文学研究正经历加速增长。为更好地理解其演变与现状,我们利用天体物理数据系统(ADS)和科学引文索引(Web of Science, WoS)的数据开展了一项文献计量研究。在ADS中,我们识别出从1980年(首篇发表年份)至2023年(研究截止日期)间的422篇同行评审论文。在参与至少一篇论文的25个哥伦比亚机构中,四所大学的贡献尤为突出:洛斯安第斯大学(104篇)、哥伦比亚国立大学(78篇)、桑坦德工业大学(68篇)和安蒂奥基亚大学(67篇)。通过交叉比对ADS与WoS信息,我们发现发表论文中影响力最高的领域集中在三个方面:高能与基础物理、恒星与恒星物理、星系与宇宙学。根据WoS数据,2019至2023年间,哥伦比亚在全球同行评审论文数量排名中位列第52位,在拉丁美洲居第五位。此外,我们识别出三篇高被引论文(全球前1%),均属观测宇宙学领域。通过分析具有同等或更高文献产出量的国家,我们估算哥伦比亚的实际产出量约为其人口与GDP所预期产出量的四分之一。