Web presence of the scientific community of researchers of the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (CUBA)

Abstract

Web platforms are one of the most effective instruments for the socialization of scientific knowledge. The study of the presence and production of scientific communities on web has few references in the national Cuban context. The Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas (Cuba) has few investigations whose purpose is the measurement of scientific activity on web, through the presence of researchers on web platforms. In the current investigation, the objectives were: 1) to determine the metric indicators that allow a characterization of the Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas researchers presence on web and 2) to describe the presence of the scientific community of the Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas on web. The current research is classifies as descriptive and cuantitative. The used research methods were theoretical and empirical, fundamentally the bibliometric method. Metric indicators were used to obtain results on the presence of researchers from the institution on web. ResearchGate, LinkedIn, Mendeley, Dspace@UCLV and ORCID were the platforms analyzed for the development of database. Dspace@UCLV is identified as the most used site by the researchers of the institution and LinkedIn as the most used social network. The faculty with the greatest presence on web is Mathematics, Physics and Computing, the authors were identified with greater productivity and impact.