Updates
- April 8, 2015. I was kindly invited by Jorge Calero to participate in the Workshop of GIPE - Grupo Interdisciplinar de Políticas Educativas with the presentation Bibliometría y la evaluación de investigadores . PPT on SlideShare
- March 16, 2015. I will be teaching until April 6, the online course Estrategias para publicar en revistas científicas de impacto en Educación with Ignacio Aguaded, Daniel Torres-Salinas and Rafael Repiso organized by EC3Metrics. More information in Spanish here.
- March 13, 2015. The paper Can we track the geography of surnames based on bibliographic data? authored by Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Ed Noyons and Rodrigo Costas has been accepted for oral presentation at the ISSI Congress 2015, to be held from June 30 to July 3, in Istanbul (Turkey). OA version.
- February 16, 2015. I will be teaching during the next three weeks the online course La evaluación de la investigació universitaria desde una perspectiva bibliotecaria with Daniel Torres-Salinas and Rafael Repiso organized by EC3Metrics and Collegi Oficial de Bibliotecaris i Documentalistes de la Comunitat Valenciana. More information in Spanish here.
- February 9, 2015. I will be teaching during the next three weeks the online course La evaluación de la investigació universitaria desde una perspectiva bibliotecaria with Daniel Torres-Salinas and Rafael Repiso organized by EC3Metrics. More information in Spanish here.
- January 19, 2014. The paper Analyzing data citation practices according to the Data Citation Index by N. Robinson-Garcia, E. Jiménez-Contreras and D. Torres-Salinas has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. OA version
- January 16, 2015. Today we release the opinion paper Los nuevos índices de citas de Thomson Reuters ofrecen nuevas posibilidades para mejorar los rankings de universidades by N. Robinson-Garcia and D. Torres-Salinas in the professional list service IWETEL for the Think Tank ThinkEPI. Read the full note.
- November 18, 2014. Today we release version 1.2 of the Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers project. The project team is formed by Daniel Torres-Salinas (PI), Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Enrique Fuente-Gutierrez and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras. Access to the website at http://bipublishers.es.
- November 6, 2014. The working paper entitled Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers: Data processing, indicators and interpretation by N. Robinson-Garcia, E. Jiménez-Contreras, E. Fuente-Gutierrez and D. Torres-Salinas is now available. Download
- October 23, 2014. I have been invited to participate at the Experts' meeting of the 1st International Workshop of Open Research Data which takes place in Valencia at the ETS of Informatics, Universidad Politénica de Valencia.
- October 14, 2014. The paper An insight into the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings by N. Robinson-Garcia, D. Torres-Salinas, E. Delgado López-Cózar and F. Herrera has now been published in Scientometrics. doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1263-1.
- September 29, 2014. Talking about research evaluation at the Mesa redonda. Evaluación de políticas científicas in Valencia. Organized by the Association Joves Investigadors. The presentation is available in Slideshare.
- September 4, 2014. I presented the paper How many citations are there in the Data Citation Index? co-authored with Daniel Torres-Salinas and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras at the STI Conference 2014 Leiden. OA version - PPT
- September 3, 2014. Clara Calero-Medina, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras and I presented the poster The impact of a few: The effect of alternative formulas for recruiting talent in a non-competitive system at the STI Conference 2014 Leiden. OA version - Poster
- August 17-21, 2014. I have been participating as an interpreter English-Spanish, Spanish-English on a voluntary basis at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, celebrated in Lyon (France).
- July 28, 2014. The paper New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric.com by N. Robinson-Garcia, D. Torres-Salinas, Z. Zahedi and R. Costas has been published in El profesional de la información doi:10.3145/epi.2014.jul.03.
- July 14, 2014. I defended my PhD Thesis Classifying and visualizying the disciplinary focus of universities: The invisible factor of university rankings. Here you may find more info related with my PhD Research. Also, Daniel Torres-Salinas wrote a post of it in the EC3Noticias blog (in Spanish language).
- July 2, 2014. The paper New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric.com by N. Robinson-García, D. Torres-Salinas, Z. Zahedi and R. Costas has been accepted for publication in El profesional de la información.
- June 23-July 3, 2014. Evaristo Jimenez-Contreras and Nicolas Robinson-Garcia have been teaching the course 'Publication in scientific journals. Impact factors'. Here is the presentation available.
- June 27, 2014. The paper Tendencias en mapas de la ciencia: Co-uso de información científica como reflejo de los intereses de los investigadores by D. Torres-Salinas, E. Jiménez-Contreras and N. Robinson-García has been published in El profesional de la información doi:10.3145/epi.2014.may.05.
- June 10, 2014. The proposal How many citations are there in the Data Citation Index? by D. Torres-Salinas, E. Jiménez-Contreras and N. Robinson-Garcia has been accepted for oral presentation at the 19th Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, 3-5 September 2014 Leiden, The Netherlands.
- June 10, 2014. The proposal The impact of a few: The effect of alternative formulas for recruiting talent in a non-competitive system by N. Robinson-Garcia, E. Jiménez-Contreras and C. Calero-Medina has been accepted as poster at the 19th Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, 3-5 September 2014 Leiden, The Netherlands.
- May 26, 2014. Today we have released the 5th edition of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish Universities by scientific fields and disciplines with a new website. Check it out at: http://rankinguniversidades.es.
- May 5, 2014. The paper Best-in-class and strategic benchmarking of scientific subject categories of Web of Science in 2010 by J.A. Garcia, R. Rodriguez-Sanchez, J. Fdez-Valdivia, N. Robinson-García and D. Torres-Salinas has been published in Scientometrics doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1000-1.
- March 22, 2014. The paper An insight into the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR rankings of Spanish universities by N. Robinson-Garcia, D. Torres-Salinas E., Delgado López-Cózar and F. Herrera has been published online in Scientometrics doi:10.1007/s11192-014-1263-1.
- March 5, 2014. The paper Trends in science mapping: The co-use of scientific literature as evidence of the interests of researchers by D. Torres-Salinas, E. Jiménez-Contreras and N. Robinson-Garcia to be published in El profesional de la informacíon is now available in open access. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30671.
- February 19, 2014. The paper An insight on the importance of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities by N. Robinson-García, D. Torres-Salinas, E. Delgado López-Cózar and F. Herrera has been accepted for publication in Scientometrics.
- January 3, 2014. Science publishes a news story by John Bohannon about Google Scholar in which they mention our work on the Google Scholar Experiment entitled Google Scholar wins raves - but can it be trusted?. doi:10.1126/science.343.6166.14
- December 6, 2013. The letter Science Communication: Flawed citation indexing by E. Delgado López-Cózar, N. Robinson-Garcia and D. Torres-Salinas has been published in Science Magazine doi:10.1126/science.342.6163.1169-b.
- December 3, 2013. The paper Análisis de redes de universidades españolas de acuerdo a su perfil de publicación en revistas por áreas científicias by N. Robinson Garcia, R. Rodriguez-Sánchez, J.A. García, D. Torres-Salinas and J. Fdez-Valdivia is now published in Revista Española de Documentación Científica. doi:10.3989/redc.2013.4.1042.
- November 29, 2013. The paper Coverage, field specialization and the impact of scientific publishers indexed in the Book Citation Index by D. Torres-Salinas, N. Robinson-García, J.M. Campanario and E. Delgado López-Cózar is now published as early view in Online Information Review.
- November 11, 2013. The paper The Google Scholar experiment: How to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators by E. Delgado López-Cózar, N. Robinson-Garcia and D. Torres-Salinas has been published as early view in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology doi:10.1002/asi.23056.
- November 11, 2013. The paper Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: Edited books, book series and publisher types in the Book Citation Index by D. Torres-Salinas, N. Robinson-Garcia, Á. Cabezas-Clavijo and E. Jiménez-Contreras is now published as online first in Scientometrics doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1168-4.
- November 4-8, 2013. I will be teaching the course Léxico en lengua inglesa en Biblioteconomía y Documentación (Level III) organized by Formación del PAS at the University of Granada. All class material is available OA at the website En clase...
- October 28-29, 2013. Presentation at the 18th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy held in Stokholm Relating universities' research performance and cities' cultural capital in global university rankings by N. Robinson-García, Clara Calero-Medina and Thed N. van Leeuwen (slides are available here).
- October 22, 2013. The paper What do university rankings by fields rank? Exploring discrepancies between the organizational structure of universities and bibliometric classifications by N. Robinson-García and Clara Calero-Medina has been published in Scientometrics doi: 10.1007/s11192-013-1157-7.
- October 21-25, 2013. I will be teaching the course Léxico en lengua inglesa en Biblioteconomía y Documentación (Level II) organized by Formación del PAS at the University of Granada. All class material is available OA at the website En clase...
- October 16, 2013. The paper Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: edited books, book series and publisher types in the Book Citation Index by D. Torres-Salinas, N. Robinson-García, Á. Cabezas-Clavijo and E. Jiménez-Contreras has been accepted for publication in Scientometrics.
- October 7, 2013. The paper What do university rankings by fields rank? Exploring discrepancies between the organizational structure of universities and bibliometric classifications by N. Robinson-García and Clara Calero-Medina has been accepted for publication in Scientometrics.
- September 12, 2013. The letter Against the resilience of rejected manuscripts by N. Robinson-Garcia, E. Delgado López-Cózar, D. Torres-Salinas and J.M. Campanario has been published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.22894. Also available in OA here.
- August 15-23, 2013. At the 79th IFLA World Library and Information Congress celebrated in Singapore. Volunteering as an interpreter for the Spanish Team.
- July 18, 2013. Presentation at the 14th International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference held in Vienna of Analyzing the citation characteristics of books: edited books, book series and types of publishers in the Book Citation Index (slides here and full paper here).
- July 16, 2013. Presentation at the 14th International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference held in Vienna of The role of national university rankings in an international context: The case of the I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities (slides here and full paper here).
- June 29, 2013. The paper Reviewers' ratings and bibliometric indicators: Hand in hand when assessing over research proposals by Á. Cabezas-Clavijo, N. Robinson-García, M. Escabias and E. Jiménez-Contreras has just been published in PLOS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068258.
- June 26, 2013. Seminar in Almuñécar entitled How to publish in impact journals? as part of the course: La comunicación intercultural euroasiática en las condiciones del proceso de Bolonia from the University of Granada. The presentation is available here.
- June 25, 2013. The book review What are universities for?/ Stefan Collini. London: Penguin Books, 2012 has just been published in Revista Española de Documentación Científica.
- June 17, 2013. The paper The Google Scholar Experiment: How to index false papers and manipulate bibliometric indicators by E. Delgado López-Cózar, N. Robinson-García and D. Torres-Salinas has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
- June 15, 2013. Back to Granada after a three months research stay at the CWTS in Leiden University.
- May 28, 2013. The paper Reviewers' ratings and bibliometric indicators: Hand in hand when assessing over research proposals? by Á. Cabezas-Clavijo, N. Robinson-García, M. Escabias and E. Jiménez-Contreras has been accepted for publication in PLOS One.
- May 24, 2013. The paper On the use of biplot analysis for multivariate bibliometric and scientific indicators by D. Torres Salinas, N. Robinson-García, E. Jiménez-Contreras, F. Herrera and E. Delgado López-Cózar has just been published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. doi: 10.1002/asi.22837.
- May 23, 2013. Today we have released the 4th edition of the Spanish I-UGR Rankings available at http://rankinguniversidades.es.
