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The woman researcher’s tale: A review of bibliometric methods and results for studying gender in science

Elvira González-Salmón, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, and Nicolás Robinson-García have just published “The Woman Researcher’s Tale: A Review of Bibliometric Methods and Results for Studying Gender in Science” in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. This literature review examines the current state of research on gender in science through a bibliometric lens. The …

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New podcast on diversity in science: BoB feat. COMPARE

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As part of the COMPARE project, we are joining the “Bibliometría o Barbarie” (BoB) project, a podcast in which we interviewed researchers with long and impressive bibliometric careers, to ask them about their trajectories, their ideas, their ups and downs, etc. The mix between BoB and COMPARE turned into BoB feat. COMPARE, a six-episode podcast …

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The Publication of Scientometrics

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Scientometrics, a new article published last week, is described to be «An International Journal for all Quantitative Aspects of the Science of Science, Communication in Science and Science Policy». The focus of this project is a peer-reviewed monthly journal that has publications on a variety of original research and aspects including communication and the use …

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New gender identification algorithm

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We are excited to share a new algorithm presented by Nicolás Robinson-García and Elvira González-Salmón titled «WikiGenDex: A new gender identification algorithm based on open sources«. This new algorithm uses the open source WikiGenDex due to the limitations and restrictions found in other name-based algorithms that we see within gender assignments. Information from Wikidata and …

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First U-CHASS Working Paper on Gender

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We are very proud to announce the first U-CHASS Working Paper on gender: The woman’s researcher tale: A Review of Bibliometric Methods and Results for Studying Gender in Science. The U-CHASS (Computational Humanities and Social Sciences) group is a new unit of excellence of Universidad de Granada in which we explore the intersection of technology, …

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COMPARE at the follow-up sessions of «Proyectos I+D+i» 2020

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Last week, the follow-up sessions of the «Proyectos I+D+i» 2020 took place in the modality of Research and Knowledge Generation Challenges. Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, as the Project IP, presented the achievements of the COMPARE Project so far. On it, he talked about the following items: Robinson-Garcia and other researchers successfully defended their work and that of …

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Conference on Scientific Mobility and Talent Attraction: Challenges and Opportunities: A review

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Last week we hosted the “Conference on Scientific Mobility and Talent Attraction: Challenges and Opportunities”. We were able to organize this conference thanks to the Visiting Scholars – Cassidy R. Sugimoto project. After a warm introduction made by the vice rector Esteban Romero Frías, we started the morning hearing the institutional point of view on …

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Conference on Scientific Mobility and Talent Attraction: Challenges and Opportunities

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On 20th November 2023, the COMPARE team, EC3 group and Unidad de Excelencia de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas Computacionales (U-CHASS) will organise an event on scientific mobility called “Jornada sobre movilidad científica y atracción de talento: Desafíos y oportunidades”. This event is co-funded by the University of Granada’s Research Plan and linked to the Visiting …

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COMPARE team at STI 2023

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The COMPARE team participated on the 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (2023) with five different contributions. The conference took place in Leiden (The Netherlands) from 27-29th September 2023. Firstly, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Daniel Torres-Salinas and Nicolás Robinson-García presented their work on «Tweet my paper: Who handles dissemination on Twitter?». The submission is …

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The bibliometric journey towards technological and social change

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Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolás Robinson-García and Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras just published a new article on the new challenges and issues of bibliometrics called “The bibliometric journey towards technological and social change: A review of current challenges and issues”. It is part of Volume 32, Number 2 of Profesional de la Información, which focuses on Digital native media …

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