Bibliometric Analysis of Web of Science Database STEM Fields in Engineering and Mathematics. Ecuador’s Case Study

Abstract

The scientific production in Ecuador has been increasing considerably over the last two decades; the actual research proceeds to conduct the specific bibliometric analysis of the publications in STEM subjects in Engineering and Mathematics from the Web of Science Core Collection in 1990–2021. Through 4 steps of a data preprocessing structured methodology, were outcome two datasets of which 4 650 publications became inputs to quantitative analysis of Engineering and Mathematics Web of Science Categories, each verifying Price’s Law (R2 = 0.9485) establishing the exponentially increasing of documents published and a Pareto’s Law approximation percent of articles published within 63 research areas. 86.69% of all publications are in the English language from both clusters (data set) analyzed. Khorami, Majid is the author with more relevance. As a result, university institutes contribute more to research publications. Escuela Politécnica Nacional del Ecuador is prominent.