Citation analysis of cuban research. Part 1. A case study: the Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science

Bibliometric analyses of research in developing countries are interesting f or various reasons. The situation of Cuba is rather exceptional. The Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science (CJAS) is the only Cuban research journal, indexed by the Institute of Scientific information's Web of Science (WoS). We explore the possibilities of a citation analysis for Cuban research publ ications in general and for those in CJAS in particular. For the period 198 8-1999, we find that this journal represents 14% of Cuban research publicat ions. cited in the WoS. We remark that the number of self citations is rela tively high and even increases since 1995, The results are classified by di sciplines and we use a co-citation matrix to discuss the different observed citation patterns.