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: Received: 9 August 2022 / Approved: 24 August 2022 / Online: 24 August 2022 (03:00:14 CEST)
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Herrero-Solana, V.; Piedra-Salomón, Y. Industry 4.0 in Latin America: Countries and Institutions with the Greatest Innovation and Global Impact. Preprints2022, 2022080403. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0403.v1
Herrero-Solana, V.; Piedra-Salomón, Y. Industry 4.0 in Latin America: Countries and Institutions with the Greatest Innovation and Global Impact. Preprints 2022, 2022080403. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0403.v1
Herrero-Solana, V.; Piedra-Salomón, Y. Industry 4.0 in Latin America: Countries and Institutions with the Greatest Innovation and Global Impact. Preprints2022, 2022080403. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0403.v1
APA Style
Herrero-Solana, V., & Piedra-Salomón, Y. (2022). Industry 4.0 in Latin America: Countries and Institutions with the Greatest Innovation and Global Impact. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0403.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Herrero-Solana, V. and Yelina Piedra-Salomón. 2022 "Industry 4.0 in Latin America: Countries and Institutions with the Greatest Innovation and Global Impact" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0403.v1
Abstract
Industry 4.0 (i4.0) is one of the fields of knowledge that is most extensively researched recently and whose definition is the most controversial, and Latin America (LatAm) is no exception. Identifying the LatAm countries and institutions with the highest degree of innovation and global impact in the i4.0 field. New citation micro-topics were used to identify the thematic domain: 4.224.1040 Industry 4.0. Difference indicators were extracted from Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports and especially Incites. Broadly speaking, the LatAm effort rate in i4.0 is high, as well as its global impact. The main countries are, in decreasing order, Brazil and Mexico. These countries show a high number of industry collaborations, and Brazil boasts many patent citations. Spain is a key partner of Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba and Ecuador. The most prominent institutions are the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Tecnológico de Monterrey) and the University of Rio Grande do Sul (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS). The former specializes in engineering and smart manufacturing systems and the latter in ICT (cloud computing, IoT, and big data, among others).
Keywords
Industry 4.0; América Latina; LatAm; i4.0; Incites; Bibliometrics
Subject
Social Sciences, Library and Information Sciences
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