Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo

Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo
International University of La Rioja | UNIR

Doctor en Ciencias Sociales

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The main objective of this research is to quantify for the first time the phenomenon of books authored by ChatGPT for sale through Amazon. To do this and with the help of a quantitative descriptive methodology, this work analyzes the evolution of books written by ChatGPT, and the characteristics of these works—typology, language, price, extension a...
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El fenómeno de la cultura de la cancelación en la industria audiovisual ha sido escasamente abordado hasta la fecha. Por ello, esta investigación analiza las peticiones realizadas en change.org con el objetivo de que se cancele alguna producción de la compañía Netflix. Para ello, se realiza un análisis cuantitativo de contenido sobre las peticiones...
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Purpose The aim of this article is to explore up to seven parameters related to the methodological quality and reproducibility of thematic bibliometric research published in the two most productive journals in bibliometrics, Sustainability (a journal outside the discipline) and Scientometrics, the flagship journal in the field. Design/methodology/...
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This letter warns about the identification of research publications available online that contain references to non-existent papers (ghost bibliographic references). This is likely to happen due to the use of ChatGPT, a LLM-based (Large-Language Models) chatbot which generates plausible but fake bibliographic references. Although the magnitude of t...
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Many research organizations around the world are adopting an evaluation model that moves away from traditional CVs and is based on a new format, the narrative CV. In this text, we highlight the main characteristics of narrative CVs, emphasizing their advantages for presenting academic achievements in a con-cise and focused manner. Narrative CVs, wh...
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La revista Sustainability, de la editorial MDPI, fue en 2020 la revista que publicó más trabajos de investigadores de instituciones españolas. Esto justifica un examen detallado de la producción científica española en dicha revista. Se analiza también la labor de edición de números monográficos en los cuales se han publicado trabajos con autores es...
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Carrying out bibliometric reports is one of the common tasks performed by librarians and practitioners within the framework of their professional duties. The emergence of novel data sources, the need to measure new research activities and the growing demand for fairer and more equitable evaluation within the framework of the Responsible Metrics mov...
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This paper aims at offering an evaluation framework of an Research and Development programme in the Biomedical Sciences. It showcases the Spanish Biomedical Research Networking Centres initiative (CIBER) as an example of the effect of research policy management on performance. For this it focuses on three specific aspects: its role on the national...
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This paper aims at offering an evaluation framework of an Research and Development programme in the Biomedical Sciences. It showcases the Spanish Biomedical Research Networking Centres initiative (CIBER) as an example of the effect of research policy management on performance. For this it focuses on three specific aspects: its role on the national...
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This paper presents a first approach to analyzing the factors that determine the citation characteristics of books. For this we use the Thomson Reuters' book citation index, a novel multidisciplinary database launched in 2011 which offers bibliometric data on books. We analyze three possible factors which are considered to affect the citation impac...
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El Grupo de investigación constituye en la actualidad la principal unidad vertebradora y ejecutora de la ciencia en las universidades públicas españolas, aunque su estudio tanto a nivel bibliométrico como cibermétrico, es todavía muy escaso debido a ciertos problemas metodológicos. Este trabajo presenta un análisis cibermétrico de las sedes web de...
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An analysis of the performance of research groups from a bibliometric point of view is presented. We take into account the 258 research groups from the University of Murcia as a case study (excluding those from Humanities), in order to delve into the relationship between the size and the scientific performance of research groups, using absolute and...
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The peer review system has been traditionally challenged due to its many limitations especially for allocating funding. Bibliometric indicators may well present themselves as a complement. We analyze the relationship between peers' ratings and bibliometric indicators for Spanish researchers in the 2007 National R&D Plan for 23 research fields. We a...
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In this paper we review the socalled altmetrics or alternative metrics. This concept raises from the development of new indicators based on Web 2.0, for the evaluation of the research and academic activity. The basic assumption is that variables such as mentions in blogs, number of twits or of researchers bookmarking a research paper for instance,...
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This study aims to analyse whether library loans statistics can be used as a measure of monograph use and as a selection criteria for inclusion in citation indexes. For this, we conducted an exploratory study based on loan data (1000 most borrowed monographs) from two non-Anglo-Saxon European university libraries (Granada and Vienna) with strong so...
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The aim of this study is to review the features, benefits and limitations of the new scientific evaluation products derived from Google Scholar, such as Google Scholar Metrics and Google Scholar Citations, as well as the h-index, which is the standard bibliometric indicator adopted by these services. The study also outlines the potential of this ne...
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The launch of Google Scholar Metrics as a tool for assessing scientific journals may be serious competition for Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports, and for Scopus powered Scimago Journal Rank. A review of these bibliometric journal evaluation products is performed. We compare their main characteristics from different approaches: coverage, ind...
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The aim of this study is to review the features, benefits and limitations of the new scientific evaluation products derived from Google Scholar, such as Google Scholar Metrics and Google Scholar Citations, as well as the h-index, which is the standard bibliometric indicator adopted by these services. The study also outlines the potential of this ne...
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The launch of Google Scholar Metrics as a tool for assessing scientific journals may be serious competition for Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports, and for Scopus powered Scimago Journal Rank. A review of these bibliometric journal evaluation products is performed. We compare their main characteristics from different approaches: coverage, ind...
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We introduce Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), a new bibliometric product of Google that aims at providing the H-index for scientific journals and other information sources. We conduct a critical review of GSM showing its main characteristics and possibilities as a tool for scientific evaluation. We discuss its coverage along with the inclusion of repo...
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The emergence in the scientific community of an initiative known as data sharing, consisting of sharing research data among researchers and aiming to maximize efforts and resources, is analysed. First, the concept of research data and the related technical difficulties depending on the discipline are reviewed. We also examine the motivations, origi...
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Reference thresholds for the scientific production and impact of internationally visible Spanish research within the areas defined by the Spanish National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (ANEP) are presented. These percentile reference tables are constructed from the population of researchers who applied for a project within Spain’s National...
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A metric analysis of blogs on library and information science (LIS) between November 2006 and June 2009 indexed on the Libworm search engine characterizes the community's behavior quantitatively. An analysis of 1108 personal and corporate blogs with a total of 275,103 posts is used to calculate survival rate, production (number of posts published),...
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The new publishing and scientific communication environments have led to the emergence of new Web indicators. Along with usage metrics such as downloads there are many measures that are generated from Science 2.0. Journals published by the Public Library of Science systematically collect many of these new metrics. The objective of this paper is to...
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An analysis about visibility and learning of blogs is presented.
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The concept of Science 2.0 is introduced and analysed through their principal characteristics; user participation and colaboration as well as free information exchange by means of web applications. A categorisation of tools for main web 2.0 funcionalities for scientists is detailed; blogs networks; content management 2.0 journals; online reference...
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An analysis about careers guidance and situation of Library and information science is presented.
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This paper analyses several indicators of production and participation in spanish library and information science blogs. We selected a sample of 46 personal and corporative weblogs, taking those 12 blogs with the higher number of incoming links. These blogs get more than 70% of the total number of links received by the whole group. Our results dete...
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We present a descriptive study about the current status of science blogs. We study different aspects of the possible changes that science blogs introduce in scientific communication. First, the study offers a definition of science blogs and exposes some utilities for the world of science. One of these possibilities is the use of science blogs as a...
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An analysis of tools that can help us in Science 2.0 is presented.

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