This article analyzes the importance of scientific evaluation in Latin America, by identifying the institutions regulating it in each country, reviewing their strategic objectives for recognizing researchers and analyzing the use of diverse evaluation criteria. From a documentary analysis of the models for evaluating researchers in 19 countries, we unified the activities and products that are considered in these countries and we developed a general model for evaluating researchers, which consists of six dimensions and 39 criteria that allow characterizing the ways in which researchers’ activities are evaluated in the region. Finally, we compared the model’s criteria with data from bibliometric, economic and educational indicators.

本文通过确定每个国家的科学评估机构，审查其认可研究人员的战略目标并分析各种评估标准的使用，分析了拉丁美洲科学评估的重要性。通过对19个国家/地区评估研究人员模型的文献分析，我们统一了这些国家/地区考虑的活动和产品，并开发了评估研究人员的通用模型，该模型包含六个维度和39个标准，可用于表征研究方法。在该地区评估了哪些研究人员的活动。最后，我们将模型的标准与文献计量，经济和教育指标的数据进行了比较。