Communication of scientific knowledge is key in the scientific method, and it is necessary for the advance of science and technology.The rapid advance of ICTs has had a tremendous impact on science communication.This is clearly reflected by the exponential increase in the number of scientific publications worldwide in the last five decades.The highest contribution numbers belong to the industrialized economies, given their high investment rates in education, science, technology Ramírez-Malule, et al/Ingeniería y Competitividad, 25(1), e30112437, enero-junio 2023 and innovation.For example, only researchers with affiliations of institutions in the United States and China account more than 20,3 and 8,4 million scientific publications indexed in Scopus by 2021, which is one of the broadest and more reliable interdisciplinary scientific databases (Fig 1a);these countries reported a GDP of 22996 and 17734 billion USD by 2021, respectively.Of those scientific outputs, the engineering and technology disciplines contributed with 9.0 and 18.5%, respectively.As displayed in Fig. 2, China exhibits its highest contribution in the engineering and technology field, while for the United States this discipline ranked third.This fact reflects the