Content Analysis: Altmetrics-Latin America. Dimensions data

Altmetrics studies emerged ten years ago in the Global North context and after a few years spread around the world. The paper investigates who are the Latin American researchers, and the relationship between South and North in Altmetric Studies and the situation of altmetric output in Latin America. (Research Design and methods) This study combines global mapping and social networks analysis, using Dimensions and VOSviewer to measure co-authorship, bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis and content analysis to identify types of production on this topic in Latina America outputs (Dimensions data). Findings: Results (n=172) show the prominence of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico in altmetric research in Latin America. There is strong co-authorship relation in Anglophone output between Latin American research on this issue. There is an internal national co-authorship, with a huge influence from the North as reference to Latin American altmetric studies, but with gradual recognition of Mexico and Brazil as leading exponents in the region.