Food science and technology in Mexico

Abstract

There is scarce information about the scientific production in the area of Food Science and Technology in Mexico. Therefore it is difficult to have an overall view of the national development of this important field of knowledge. The objective of this work was to analyze the publications in high impact international journals by Mexican researchers and compare the situation with those in other countries. The database ISI Web of Knowledge (Copyright (C) 2007 The Thomson Corporation) was used to retrieve the list of publications indexed in the period 2000-2006 with at least one Mexican author. According to this analysis, a total of 868 publications were published in 75 journals, mainly in English. In Mexico, the scientific production in the area of Food Science and Technology was 1.76 \% of the total published. This value is slightly lower that the average for the other countries of the socio-cultural environment (1.9 \%), where this indicator varied in the range 0.82 - 2.98 \%. The increase of publications between 2000 and 2006 was 13 articles/year. The main production was concentrated in less than 20 journals; consequently librarians can easily select those journals to compile the knowledge generated in this area in Mexico.