Publications Analyzing the Scientific Production on Open Science in Latin America: A Bibliographic Survey

The initiatives and practices that constitute the Open Science Movement have contributed to transparency and access to scientific information. In Latin America, they are essential to the structuring and visibility of scientific production originating in the region. In this context, this research analyzes publications on Latin American scientific production on open science. The bibliographic survey, carried out in nine databases, resulted in the identification of 41 documents. These were grouped into three categories, according to the similarity of approaches: a) Applications and practices of open science (60.97%), b) Theoretical-reflective writings on open science (29.26%) and c) Metric studies of scientific production on open science (9.75%). The results indicate that the use of the term “open science” is recent, with productions dating back to the last 10 years and mainly associated with the dissemination of practices and development of resources within the movement. Metric studies on the topic are still incipient, with analyzes that involve multiple methodological possibilities, the variation of information sources, geographic and/or chronological sections and the variety of terminologies that make up the Open Science movement. The thematic breadth of the Open Science movement and the coverage of the data sources used, commonly with little representation of Latin American production, are among the limitations of this type of analysis.