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SAAVEDRA FERNANDEZ, Oscar; SOTOLONGO AGUILAR, Gilberto  e  GUZMAN SANCHEZ, María V. Contribución al estudio de las revistas de América Latina y el Caribe mediante el mapeo autoorganizado. ACIMED [online]. 2002, vol.10, n.3, pp. 5-6. ISSN 1024-9435.

Starting from the use of neural artificial networks (NAN), and more concretely from the technique of self-organized maps (SOM), also known as Kohonen’s algorithm, the authors try to identify some elements influencing on the position occupied by journals from Latin America and the Caribbean and the effect that certain actions may have on it. As exploratory techniques, they only reveal patterns of behavior (signs) of reality that have to be assessed by experts. On dealing with this topic, there have been considered the results of recent regional efforts (partial results of ongoing projects as LATINDEX and RICYT) that will allow to face in the future more complete tasks.

Palavras-chave : SERIALS; LATIN AMERICA; NEURAL NETWORKS(COMPUTERS); CARIBBEAN REGION.