  Based on bibliometric information from Scopus for the period 1996-2019, this
document characterizes the evolution of Uruguayan scientific production and
establishes the areas in which the country has a revealed comparative advantage
(RCA). Methodologically, it is proposed that there is a RCA in an area if this
area has a greater share in national scientific production than the share of
the area in world scientific production. The evidence presented considers two
measurements of scientific production (published articles and citations) and
three levels of aggregation in the areas (a minor one with 5 large areas, a
more detailed one with 27 disciplines and another even more granular with more
than 300 disaggregations). Within Health Sciences there is a RCA in Veterinary,
Nursing and Medicine. Within Life Sciences there is a RCA in Agricultural and
Biological Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology and Biochemistry, Genetics and
Molecular Biology. In Physical Sciences there is only a RCA in Environmental
Science and in Social Sciences only in Economics, Econometrics and Finance.
