Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes

• PhD in Bibliometrics
• Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics and Data Science at University of Brighton

In today’s information-driven society, researchers often face challenges when navigating the vast resources available to support their careers. They typically rely on bibliographic databases while conducting literature reviews or searching for potential publication venues. However, they often overlook additional opportunities for publishing, findin...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to create an inclusive world for everyone. The United Nations has urged all member states to work towards achieving 17 goals by 2030, including 169 targets. The UN emphasises that achieving these SDGs will not be possible without the support and effort of academic and scientific research worldwide. Various b...

Topic modelling (TM) is a significant natural language processing (NLP) task and is becoming more popular, especially, in the context of literature synthesis and analysis. Despite the growing volume of studies on the use of and versatility of TM, the knowledge of TM development, especially from the perspective of bibliometrics analysis is limited....

One of the main purposes of the countries’ economic expenditure in research is to achieve higher levels of scientific results which could impact in better living standards for society. Besides, research efficiency could be considered as a way of getting the largest number of scientific results with the minimum amount of financial investment. To ass...

LIS-Bibliometrics Committee members Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke and Silvia Dobre discuss the new bibliometrics competencies model, why it was updated, and the changes made to it. https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/competencies/ https://thebibliomagician.wordpress.com/2021/07/30/the-new-competencies-model-for-bibliomet...

Research universities have a strong devotion and advocacy for research in their core academic mission. This is why they are widely recognized for their excellence in research which make them take the most renowned positions in the different worldwide university leagues. In order to examine the uniqueness of this group of universities we analyze the...

En la literatura científica algunos estudios han examinado el impacto positivo que tiene la investigación en la sociedad. Sin embargo, este trabajo analiza cómo los factores sociales pueden influir en los resultados científicos. La muestra de investigación estudia a México y sus socios estratégicos en ciencia y tecnología. Los resultados se dividen...

Research universities are institutions with a strong vocation and advocacy towards research. They are in the top of the world university rankings because of their excellence in research. This paper analyzes research universities focusing on their research preferences. We have selected the top twelve universities of THE World University Rankings 201...

The main purpose of the economic expenditure of countries in research and development is to achieve higher levels of scientific findings within research ecosystems, which in turn could generate better living standards for society. Therefore, the collection of scientific production constitutes a faithful image of the capacity, trajectory and scienti...

We can find several studies analyzing the scientific production of Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Peru, Venezuela etc throughout the scientific literature. There are many papers focusing on scientific disciplines, institutions and journals from these countries. However, to the best of our knowledge,...

This bibliometric study focuses on the presence of scientific women which belong to Spanish institutions and which take part in journals of first quartile of impact in the area of Library and Information Science.

Scientific papers including international collaboration could have a positive citation impact because of two diverse reasons: their links are extended and higher expectations in terms of prestige and quality are produced. India is emerging as the Asian giant because of its steady growth in the last few years, and it ranked sixth in terms of scienti...

El proyecto FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research), financiado por la Comisión Europea dentro del Séptimo Programa Marco, con una duración de dos años (febrero 2014-2016) tiene entre sus objetivos generales los de la difusión de las políticas europeas de acceso abierto, y el de dar apoyo, sobre todo a los jóvenes investigad...

Difundir entre los estudiantes y los investigadores europeos los principios de la ciencia abierta (open science) supone una necesidad y un desafío, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que el acceso abierto a los resultados de la actividad científica, se extiende cada vez más entre los requisitos de las convocatorias de proyectos nacionales e internacio...

Scientific papers including international collaboration may have a positive citation impact because of two different reasons: their connections are expanded and higher expectations in terms of prestige and quality are created. On the other hand, collaborating with a country generally increases benefits received from it. However, in this sense, some...

Dissemination of open science principles, services and tools among students and researchers within ERA is a need and a challenge, especially when open access to the results of academic and research activities is increasingly widespread among requirements for funding research projects at national and international levels. We will focus on the Europe...

International collaboration enhances citation impact. Collaborating with a country increments the citations received from it. But some collaborating countries provide greater increments in this sense than others, and likewise some countries receive greater increments from their partner countries than others. We observed a certain tendency for these...

Domestic citation to papers from the same country and the greater citation impact of documents involving international collaboration are two phenomena that have been extensively studied and contrasted. Here, however, we show that it is not so much a national bias, but that papers have a greater impact on their immediate environments, an impact that...

Domestic citation to papers from the same country and the greater citation impact of documents involving international collaboration are two phenomena that have been extensively studied and contrasted. Here, however, we showthat it is not somuch a national bias,but that papers have a greater impact on their immediate environments, an impact that is...

A study is described of the rank/JIF (Journal Impact Factor) distributions in the high-coverage Scopus database, using recent data and a three-year citation window. It includes a comparison with an older study of the Journal Citation Report categories and indicators, and a determination of the factors most influencing the distributions. While all t...

The limitations of citation-based indicators include a lack of coverage, no normalization with respect to the length of reference lists (with a potential bias in favour of reviews), and different citation habits. As a consequence, the distributions of the indicators are not comparable across different disciplines. Here we show that the most popular...