Ranking of Scientific Visibility of Latin American Universities

The ranking of universities published on the web by both Webometrics and Scimago are considered measures of internationally recognized visibility, in which variables related to the dissemination of scientific contents are measured. The present work explores these classifications of visibility of the Latin American universities as well as a documentary revision of the same ones. There are divergences between countries that are considered similar, even, between universities of the same country. As a result, it is necessary to analyze the variables that affect the visibility of Latin American universities, especially those related to research, that affect their efficiency in this process of international scientific positioning. Keyword: Visibility, universities, scientific research, Latin America. INTRoDUCTIoN 1. The comparative positioning of Universities, according to their visibility, is not a recent practice, the first Ranking appeared in the USA in 1983. The purpose of this research is to reflect the quality of the Universities, for competitive and commercial purposes, depending on the visibility they have The results of their investigations. Although the purpose of universities is a teaching role, what is shown as a reflection of their quality and the purpose of their evaluation is the result of their research. Since the birth of the first Scientific Review, bibliometric factors have been used to evaluate the impact that the editions and their articles have, ie their use, among these are indexes such as ISI, Scopus (currently under the platform Scimago), Scielo and others. With the Web and the Open Access movement, with the Berlin Declaration of 2003, researchers now have not only publications in scientific journals (tariffs and restricted access) but also Open Access Digital Magazines and Repositories (known as The site for the Autocitas), seeking to reach an increasing number of readers, reducing editorial costs. The repositories are web sites (usually located in university portals) where the research works carried out by the scientific community (of teachers and students) are published, which have been evaluated by a defense process. Including a new role to the Universities, the one International Journal of Control Theory and Applications