Cognition, Behavior, and Memory
Author: Agustin Mauro | email: agustinfmauro@gmail.com
Agustin Mauro 1°
1° Instituto de Humanidades, CONICET-UNC
In the last decades, neurosciences have grown and undergone several transformations. Understanding these processes allows better decisions making when managing different spaces for the production and dissemination of neuroscientific knowledge. This article proposes to characterize the conformation and configuration of neurosciences in Argentina through a bibliometric study. To this end, the questions it seeks to answer are: How was configured the current neuroscientific research in Argentina? Who are the main researchers? What do they research? Where do they published? What are the collaboration networks like? What are the main research topics and methodologies? How do each of these dimensions change over time? The results show that in the first periods studied there is research on the brain associated with studies in neurophysiology and neurochemistry, but which cannot be considered as “neurosciences”, and that in the last twenty years neurosciences configure as a distinctive area of research, characterized by interdisciplinarity, a great variety of topics, methodologies, researchers and institutions.