The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which productivity and formal research collaboration has changed in the fields of social sciences in Mexico. The results show that all fields have had extensive growth in the number of publications, mainly since 2005 when the number of journals in Social Sciences indexed in Web of Science (WoS) started a significant growth. However, there are important variations among areas of knowledge. The four most productive fields, considering only publications in WoS, are Business & Economics; Education & Educational Research; Social Sciences Other Topics; and Psychology. The evolution of the mean of coauthors per paper, over the period of analysis, has not had a steady growth. On the contrary, the evolution has been almost flat in almost all fields of knowledge. The evolution of communication and information technologies does not seem to have influenced substantially co-authorship in Social Sciences in Mexico. Nor has there been a big change in terms of collaboration. On average, 42% of the publications in all fields of knowledge were by solo authors, and 26% were local collaborations, i.e. collaborations among authors affiliated at Mexican institutions. Related to international collaboration, 24% of the publications were bilateral collaboration (Mexico and another country) and only 8% of the publications involved researchers from three or more countries (multilateral collaboration).

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墨西哥社会科学出版物和合着的模式和演变

本文的目的是分析墨西哥社会科学领域生产力和正式研究合作的变化程度。结果表明，各个领域的出版物数量都有广泛的增长，主要是自2005年以来，被Web of Science (WoS)收录的社会科学期刊数量开始显着增长。但是，知识领域之间存在重要差异。仅考虑 WoS 中的出版物，四个最具生产力的领域是商业和经济；教育与教育研究；社会科学其他主题；和心理学。在分析期间，每篇论文的共同作者平均值的演变并没有稳定增长。相反，几乎所有知识领域的演变都几乎是平坦的。通信和信息技术的发展似乎并未对墨西哥社会科学领域的合着产生实质性影响。在合作方面也没有发生大的变化。平均而言，所有知识领域的出版物中有 42% 是个人作者，26% 是本地合作，即隶属于墨西哥机构的作者之间的合作。在国际合作方面，24% 的出版物是双边合作（墨西哥和另一个国家），只有 8% 的出版物涉及来自三个或更多国家的研究人员（多边合作）。所有知识领域的出版物中有 42% 是个人作者，26% 是本地合作，即墨西哥机构附属作者之间的合作。在国际合作方面，24% 的出版物是双边合作（墨西哥和另一个国家），只有 8% 的出版物涉及来自三个或更多国家的研究人员（多边合作）。所有知识领域的出版物中有 42% 是个人作者，26% 是本地合作，即墨西哥机构附属作者之间的合作。在国际合作方面，24% 的出版物是双边合作（墨西哥和另一个国家），只有 8% 的出版物涉及来自三个或更多国家的研究人员（多边合作）。