Idoneidad de los indicadores de calidad de la producción científica y de la investigación

Abstract

There is increasing awareness about the necessity of measuring and assess the production of scientific knowledge to understand the importance of the contributions and the quality of scientific results. Only the course of time has given rise to an implicit consensus about this issue, with general ideas that affect to all the scientific communities, but reached by agreement within each speciality. In this work we address these questions, which will lead us to expose the difficulties of obtaining an efficient indicator of quality by paying attention only to a narrow group of measures. This is especially evident when we examine the distance between knowledge areas, with different research cultures and hence, different methods of assessing the quality of their work. Thus, we will argue that the assessment of the scientific quality must be carried out from an integral point of view by taking into account its multifactorial nature.