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This paper compares publication practices among social scientists from northeastern Mexico who were trained within the country or abroad. It focus critically on late regional scientific development (2000-2020) under the influence of a national academic evaluation scheme strongly aligned to the global publication system. A quantitative analysis was carried out on a selection of self-reported scientific production by a sample of researchers. It was found that both profiles have assimilated the hegemonic publication criteria. Also, that those trained abroad generally have better performances (some linked to their social capital). But, nonetheless, regional collaborations that could contribute to a sustainable local scientific practice are moderately more frequent in locally trained researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to exhaustively analyze the literature on public understanding of science and scientific literacy, as well as their different approaches, particularly publications in specialized journals. The aim is to argue that public understanding of science has a broader and clearly defined theoretical component and constitutes the evolution of scientific literacy, which emerged as a curricular model aimed at overcoming the model of educational deficit in the United States after the launch of the first Sputnik satellite by the Russians. For this purpose, around 160 research articles in the field were reviewed. This made it possible to validate the hypothesis that public understanding of science represents the evolution of a paradigm that transferred the image of the scientific concepts and processes necessary for personal decision-making in cultural matters to promote economic productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]