The presentation will be held online on Zoom on October 18th. It is based on a paper written in collaboration with François van Schalkwyk, Mayra M. Tirado, and Julia Melkers, and it will focus on the dynamics of scientific teams. Nicolas Robinson, PI of COMPARE, is going to participate in the seminar organized by Harvard …
During a recent visit to Bristol to give a seminar, Nicolas took the opportunity to join a research writing retreat. This productive experience led to the development of a new process research topic, which will be presented at the 28th STI Conference in Berlin. Last July, our colleague Nicolas Robinson-Garcia visited the Centre for Higher …
On May 23 and 24, COMPARE members Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Elvira González-Salmón and Nicolás Robinson-García presented their work «Unraveling the diversity of scholars in the Humanities: Profiling humanists based on their publication patterns» at Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities Conference (RESSH 2024). Despite not being able to attend in person, Wenceslao had …
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COMPARE Project is closing the year with some very interesting news. Thanks to the efforts of team member François van Schalkwyk, we have just signed an agreement with PLOS to gain access to CRediT data. Temporal coverage spans from 2017 to the present. This new agreement will allow us to further explore the topic of …
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A new article was published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics by COMPARE team members Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado and Daniel Torres-Salinas. In the paper, titled «Evaluative altmetrics: is there evidence for its application to research evaluation?», the authors explore the possibilities of altmetrics for evaluative contexts and propose a methodological framework. Take a look at …
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The 9th Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy (ATLC 2023) was held between May 24th – 26th at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The COMPARE research project, represented in Atlanta by Nicolás Robinson-García and Francois Van Schalkwyk, took part in it by presenting the following pieces of work: «Informetric methods for studying the diversity …
Our team members Nicolás Robinson-García and Victoria Di Césare have just made available an interactive dashboard on contribution types in Science. It is related to a publication by Nicolás and Manuel Escabias titled «The relation between contribution statements and academic age», in which the authors attempted to characterize the diversity of roles researchers play in …
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Last January, Nicolás Robinson-García, the principal investigator of this project, published a paper in collaboration with colleagues Rodrigo Costas (Leiden University), Gabriela Nane (Delft University of Technology) and Thed van Leeuwen (Leiden University) titled «Valuation regimes in academia: researchers’ attitudes towards their diversity of activities and academic performance». The abstract reads: Evaluation systems have been …
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