Resumen de Value of bibliometric analysis for research policy: a case study of spanish research into applied linguistics
Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martínez
The primary aim of this paper is to assess the contribution to the international literature of Spanish scientifi c production in the fi eld of applied linguistics. For this purpose 60 articles published in the last decade in the most prestigious international journals in this fi eld have been evaluated. From this analysis we have concluded that there has been positive evolution from 1995 to the present time, as much from a qualitative as from a quantitative point of view. Also, we have found that research in this fi eld is concentrated fundamentally on a reduced group of universities that nevertheless do not focus exclusively on one or a few research subjects, but on a wide range thereof
