The Table 1 presents the results of surveys, in 18 Ibero-American countries and in the world, carried out in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) or Web of Science - Core Collection - Clarivate Analytics – (WoS) and Scopus (Elsevier): AR - Argentina, BR - Brazil, CL - Chile, CO - Colombia, CR - Cota Rica, CU - Cuba, DO - Dominican Republic, EC - Ecuador, ES - Spain, GT - Guatemala, HN - Honduras, MX - Mexico, NI - Nicaragua, PA - Panama, PE - Peru, PT - Portugal, SV - El Salvador, UY - Uruguay. Merging the Scopus and Web of Science bases, the scientometric methodology of K-Synth (Bibliometrix) is applied here, according to which the scientific production of each country is measured by the number of appearances of authors by country affiliations. Thus, if in an article there are, for example, three authors working, respectively, in Brazil, Spain and the USA, the appearance counter will be increased by 1 for each of them. Due to the identification of some gaps, the electronically merged data were reconciled with the original databases. As for the Main Subject Areas, the classification adopted is that of Scopus Elsevier, as well as the compiled data, as it is the most quantitatively complete basis for this research. Data is updated until June 2024.

Funding: This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (Capes) - Finance Code 001: Process: 88887.465369/2019-00 (Capes) - Date: 01/10/2019 to 30/09/2023. In other part, this study was financed by Institutional Internationalization Program – CAPES – PrInt: Process: 88887.468908/2019-00 (Call no. 41/2017); Date: 01/02/2020 to 31/12/2020. This work was conducted during a scholarship supported by the Institutional Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad (PDSE) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil, and University of Valladolid (UVA), Palencia, Spain. Acknowledgment To Questel, for the kind permission to use and free training of the Orbit®. To Dr. D. Kouloukoui for technical advice. To Prof. H. Suzuki, for generously sharing information on patent prospecting. To Dr. Jesús Martín-Gil of Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Valladolid (UVA), for the guidelines during the Institutional Sandwich Doctorate Program Abroad (PDSE).

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