SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN ECUADORIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: A PERSPECTIVE TO NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION

Diffusion of knowledge generated in the different research processes is a permanent concern for Ecuadorian Higher Education. To face the regional and global reality regarding to scientific production seems to be a distant horizon to reach. This perspective, seen from reported statistics about the volume of publications from the different Universities in Ecuador, sets the alert about how important is to generate the necessary strategies that will allow knowledge to be disseminated. Ecuador is ranked 95 in the statistics shown by Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), with a total of 7942 articles that have been published between 1996 and 2015(1). The challenge to beat includes the different actors of the Higher Education System, who are responsible of propitiating the required initiatives that will end showing results in terms of academic and scientific writing.