?Publish or perish? The case of Social Sciences and Humanities in Latin America

The aim of this work is to explore the scientific collaborative behavior in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Latin America. To achieve this, Scopus trends (2003-2013), through the analysis done by Plume and Van Weijen, were contrasted with redalyc.org trends (2005-2014), covering a total of 220.200 papers. It revealed that the forms of author grew at a faster pace than the number of published papers; this rise was prompted by collaborative work strategies, with a tendency toward foreign collaboration. Therefore, the study of the characteristics of current scientific output leads inevitably to a discussion of collaboration. This has become one of the properties defining scientific work and is one of the ways that Latin American scientists address the "publish or perish" principle, which is now key to how research performance evaluations operate.