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ARENCIBIA JORGE, Ricardo et al. Milestones of the Cuban Science in the XXI century, a review of the most cited papers in Scopus during the period 2006-2010. ACIMED [online]. 2012, vol.23, n.2, pp.175-186. ISSN 1024-9435.

The current review, structured in two parts, identifies and describes the research articles developed by Cuban authors and institutions with the highest impact on the international scientific community during the first decade of XXI Century. The second part covered the period 2006-2010. The amount of citations was the used criteria for the identification of the most relevant papers. Scopus database and the SCImago Journal & Country Rank portal were used as information sources. The role of Cuban authors and institutions, the support of international collaboration and the visibility of the journals where the papers were published, as analytical variables for the researches characterization, were studied. Despite biomedical research was also predominant during the last five years of the decade, a group of different climate and meteorological studies, as well as important experiments in the field of high energy physics, were key research during this second stage.

Palabras clave : Cuban science; scientific production; international visibility; citation analysis; international collaboration.

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