La investigación argentina sobre agroindustria y su colaboración internacional (2007-2016)

This work aims to compare the collaboration patterns of the Argentine scientific production of Agroindustry according to the geographical scope of the research, that is, topics addressed to national readers and topics that go beyond the national border. Scopus database were used to carry out this study which span for the period 2007-2016. Collaboration patterns of both groups were analyzed and described as follows: a) whether they are global or local research topics, applying the criterion of absence or presence of national place names, respectively; b) the volume of co-authorship with different countries grouped by continents is presented; c) the 20 most frequent keywords are determined for each case and, d) the H-Index of countries was used as an indicator of the scientific impact of the collaborating country. The main results show that European countries are the main collaborator in Agroindustry research with more than 40% of co-authored papers, while Oceania, Asia, and Africa present lower collaboration rates (5% or less). The distribution of papers in global and local topics appear in all continents with slight increases in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean and Oceania in favor of local topics. The correlation between international collaboration and the scientific impact of the countries with which Argentina collaborates is relatively positive. The topics investigated are mainly anchored in Patagonia, the maritime coastline, and are especially focused on cattle and corn. The study provides useful information to think about the formation of research teams, the planning of international mobility programs, and strategic alliances for future collaboration, and it does so in a strategic area that generates strong expectations for the economic development of the country.