[BOGOTA] Four countries in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region account for almost 90 per cent of university science, according to a study released last week (1 June).
But almost half of the universities in the region do not produce scientific research at all, according to an author of the survey, which recorded the output of the region's nearly 500 higher education institutes.
Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile — in that order — are the leaders in scientific productivity, according to the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR 2010), which surveyed the output of universities in the LAC region, Portugal and Spain.
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Author: Lisbeth Fog
