The Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation ( es, Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación), also known as Colciencias, is a Colombian

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that supports fundamental and applied research in Colombia.

Publindex

Colciencias runs Publindex, the ''National

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System for Serial Publications in Science, Technology and Innovation'' ( es, Sistema Nacional de Indexación de Publicaciones Especializadas de Ciencia, Tecnología e innovación), which is a

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in four categories (C, B, A2, and A1).

References

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