How much does a citation cost?: A case study based on CONICET's budget

Data & Metadata Pub Date : 2023-04-02 DOI:10.56294/dm202329

William Castillo-González

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Introduction: CONICET has played a fundamental role in training numerous researchers and promoting science in Argentine society. Objective: To describe the relative cost per published article and per citation received for articles published by authors affiliated with CONICET. Methods: A bibliometric study was conducted to analyze CONICET's scientific production in the Scopus database and its budget from 2016 to 2021. Results: A decrease in CONICET's budget was observed, which only recovered in the last year without reaching the historical maximum studied. Furthermore, despite an increase in the number of articles published, citations decreased. The theoretical cost of an article and a bibliographic citation can be presented. For example, in 2021, the cost of publishing an article was $41,014.09 USD, and the cost of a citation was $9,442.77 USD. Conclusions: The budgetary expenses of a governmental institution with thousands of workers cannot be minimized to simple final products such as articles when considering other costs such as salaries, awareness campaigns, building construction and maintenance expenses, or even non-scientific expenses such as water bills for an institute. However, it is possible to approach a theoretical cost of the articles and citations produced by Argentine scientists.

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一篇引文要多少钱?:基于CONICET预算的案例研究

导言:CONICET在阿根廷社会培训众多研究人员和促进科学方面发挥了重要作用。目的:描述CONICET附属作者发表的文章的每篇发表和每次引用的相对成本。方法:采用文献计量学方法对CONICET 2016 - 2021年Scopus数据库的科研产出和预算进行分析。结果:CONICET的预算有所减少，仅在去年才有所恢复，但未达到所研究的历史最大值。此外，尽管发表的文章数量有所增加，但被引用的次数却减少了。一篇文章的理论成本和书目引用可以被呈现。例如，在2021年，发表一篇文章的成本为41,014.09美元，引用成本为9,442.77美元。结论:一个拥有数千名工人的政府机构的预算费用不能最小化到简单的最终产品，如文章，同时考虑到其他成本，如工资，宣传活动，建筑建设和维护费用，甚至非科学费用，如研究所的水费。然而，有可能接近阿根廷科学家发表的文章和引用的理论成本。

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