Recent Advances in Latin American Cooperation in Behavioral Sciences: A Documentary Study

A survey based on PsycINFO from 2011 to 2015 identified 809 publications resulting from scientific cooperation between at least two countries in Latin American Behavioral Sciences, including 770 journal articles, 36 chapters and 3 books. In relation to the articles a total of 3,926 authorial participations were registered. The countries with the highest participation were Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile. The 770 articles included 318 exclusively Latin American productions and 452 publications with the participation of one or more countries from other continents. The three areas that showed the largest number of publications were Psychological and Physical Disorders (283), Health and Mental Health: Treatment and Prevention (137), and Physiological Psychology and Neuroscience (94). The 770 articles identified were published in 354 journals, but only 26 journals published five or more articles resulting from Latin American cooperation in the period. Only three Latin American journals on Psychology are listed among the top 26. The data are analyzed and discussed in view of possible ways to expand cooperation.