In the 3rd Biennial Report on the University Reality at Sunedu, it was revealed that licensed Peruvian universities – both public and private – produce four times more scientific publications, compared to the situation before institutional licensing, and focused mainly on research in the social sciences, medical sciences and health in the period 2019-2020, In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In its fourth chapter, this study analyzes the performance of research teachers in terms of pScientific production, as well as patenting.
By 2021, 4,018 university professors were part of Sinacyt; Among them, 42% had a major role Research area in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplinesscience, technology, engineering, and mathematics), 21% health sciences, and 8% humanities.
By region, the Amazon was distinguished by its proportion of research professors devoted to agricultural sciences; And the Andean region, dedicated to engineering and technology.
Increase scientific production
In 2013-2014, 1,542 documents were published, and in 2019-2020 period, 5432 publications were registered In international journals indexed by Science Network.
Sunedu reveals, “This significant growth in scholarly and academic contributions in the country was the result of a significant increase in the productivity of all faculty members at the licensed institutions.”
In addition, the article ratio – a model for displaying the final search results – is by seven percentage points Between 2016-2017 and 2019-2020. In the last biennium, 67% of all publications were in the form of articles.
On the other hand, Sunedu warns that levels of productivity per milestone and international excellence in entities with denied licensing were nearly zero in 2021.
Nationally, the social sciences was the field of knowledge with the highest percentage of registered teachers, with a value of 22.4%. It was followed by the fields of natural sciences and health sciences with 21.2% in both cases.
Public universities gave priority to studies in the field of natural sciences (48.7%), which is the highest percentage compared to other types of university management. With 21.8%, it is followed by the field of health sciences. Then the field of engineering and technology increased by 11.5%.
On the other hand, 36.7% of syndicated private university publications correspond to the field of health sciences and 28.5% of natural sciences.
Finally, 49.0% of private company and university publications focused on health science studies, a higher percentage compared to the previous two cases. In these classrooms, 24.4% were research results in the field of natural sciences and 11.0% in the field of engineering and technology.
Meanwhile, at the regional level, the largest number of publications is concentrated in the universities located in Lima, with 4,331 publications, representing 79.7% of the national total.
As for the scientific impact in the country, it reached this indicator 2.5 quotes per post. Depending on the type of department, it can be verified that publications of public institutions received more citations, on average, than publications of private study houses.
In fact, the number of citations per public institution document was 2.9; While publications of union institutions and private companies received an average of 2.5 and 1.7 citations, respectively.
Patent record growing
Innovation also has stronger ground. If we compare the periods 2008-2013 and 2014-2020, it can be seen that the number of new patents in Peruvian universities increased from 9 to 274.
In the same way, it was noted that in the first period considered, all patent applications came from the universities of Lima; Whereas, in the past five years, about 20% came from the rest of the country, mainly among the universities located in the coastal regions and the Andean region.
Publication date: 3/19/2022
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