Researchers' evaluation criteria and other bibliometric, educational and social indicators

We identified 39 criteria for evaluating researchers and used for determine which Latin American countries employ which indicators, we built this dataset with such data as well as the most recent indicators available that are related to the number of researchers per million
inhabitants (World Bank, 2020; CONCYTEC, 2019); the number of institutions ranked by Scimago
in 2020 (Scimago Lab, 2020a); the percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP)
invested in science and development (World Bank, 2020); bibliometric data, including
the number of indexed publications, citations and the h-index (Scimago Lab,
2020b); the number of peer reviewers and reviews conducted (Publons, 2020); altmetric data (Orduna-Malea and Delgado, 2019) the
Human Development Index (HDI) (UNDP, 2018); and the percentages of the population
that are literate, has some schooling, and has a Bachelor's degree or
equivalent (UNESCO, 2020). Not all data are available for Cuba and Dominican
Republic in the cited sources, but they were still included.

References

CONCYTEC (2019) Perú destina US$ 31,2 millones para
atraer investigadores residentes en el exterior. Available at:
https://portal.concytec.gob.pe/index.php/noticias/1795-peru-destina-us-31-2-millones-para-atraer-investigadores-residentes-en-el-exterior (accessed
28 May 2020).

Publons (2020) Countries/Regions. Available at:
https://publons.com/country/?order_by=top_reviewers (accessed 28 May 2020).

Scimago Lab (2020a) Scimago Institutions Ranking. Available at:
https://www.scimagoir.com (accessed 28 May 2020).

Scimago Lab (2020b) Scimago Journal & Country Rank. Available at:
https://www.scimagojr.com (accessed 28 May 2020).

The World Bank (2020) World Bank Open Data. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org (accessed
28 May 2020).

UNDP (2018) Human Development Index (HDI).
Available at: http://hdr.undp.org/en/indicators/137506 (accessed 28 May 2020).

UNESCO (2020) UNESCO
Institute for Statistics. Available at: http://data.uis.unesco.org (accessed 28 May 2020).