Claudia Noemi Gonzalez Brambila

• Bachelor of Engineering
• Professor (Full) at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

Understanding how science teams contribute to energy transition is essential as global energy demands rise and the environmental costs of clean technologies intensify. Science teams are increasingly central to scientific progress and innovation in the energy field. However, comparatively little is known about team-based scientific performance and t...

This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate about it with others, identifies crosscountry differences, and tests the extent to which economic and sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most count...

Energy demands are expected to grow worldwide, from 630 exajoules in 2022 to 670 by 2030 [7]. A single exajoule can power an average US household for 26.1 million years [4]. Meeting energy needs and addressing the environmental impact of clean energy systems poses complex challenges. Hydropower affects water and nearby ecosystems, solar and wind po...

2025 R&D Management Conference: Innovation & Biodiversity — Track proposal Sustainable Synergies: Innovation Ecosystems and Biodiversity for a Sustainable Future The relationship between innovation ecosystems and biodiversity presents both opportunities and challenges, as these systems are fundamentally intertwined. Achieving synergies between th...

In this paper we analyze the evolution of Latin American (LATAM) Business Economics (BE) publications in international journals from 2005 to 2019. Using publications in Web of Science Core Collection (WoS), we analyze which characteristics of collaboration result in higher impact, i.e., total number of citations, and journals’ WoS impact factor. Ou...

Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment may challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science society nexus across different cultural contexts,...

Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public...

Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic 1,2. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low pub...

Engineers make things, make things work, and make things work better and easier. This kind of knowledge is crucial for innovation, and much of the explicit knowledge developed by engineers is embodied in scientific publications. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of publications and citations in engineering in a middle-income country such as M...

Engineers make things, make things work, and make things work better and easier. This kind of knowledge is crucial for innovation, and much of the explicit knowledge developed by engineers is embodied in scientific publications. In this paper, we analyze the evolution of publications and citations in Engineering in a middle-income country such as M...

The Mexican scientific production published in mainstream journals included in the Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) for the period 1995–2015 is analyzed. To this purpose, the bibliometric data of the 32 states were organized into five groups according to the following criteria: research production, institutional sectors, and number of research...

Global research on medical and health-related issues experienced a profound reconfiguration over the last thirty years. The rise of new areas of inquiry has transformed the medical research landscape as staff with medical training gradually relinquished their prominence, and specialists from other disciplines raised their profile within research te...

En este trabajo se da cuenta del estado y la evolución geográfica de las ciencias sociales, a través del proceso de desconcentración en México de los integrantes del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) Las preguntas que se busca responder y que sirven como dimensiones de análisis son: ¿Cuál es la distribución de los investigadores dentro de la...

La transformación de la investigación médica en México. Análisis estructural de las regularidades semánticas, cohortes de autores y sus posibles correlaciones. Sesión 5: Métricas de la producción científica en América Latina Resumen Durante las últimas décadas, la investigación médica a se ha visto envuelta en un proceso de reconfiguración en sus m...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which productivity and formal research collaboration has changed in the fields of social sciences in Mexico. The results show that all fields have had extensive growth in the number of publications, mainly since 2005 when the number of journals in Social Sciences indexed in Web of Science (WoS)...

We propose a cross-level perspective of the relationship between individual-level perceived camaraderie and an innovative environment where organizational-level camaraderie climate further enhances the innovative environment. Additionally, gender diversity weakens the cross-level interaction. We tested our hypotheses by conducting a multi-level stu...

In this paper, the social sciences state and geographical evolution is recognized through the deconcentrating process of the members on the National System of Researchers in Mexico. The questions that are pursued to be answered and that serve as analysis dimensions are: Which is the researchers geographical distribution in the country? How are they...

This paper analyzes the influence key scientists have in the development of a science and technology system. In particular, this work appraises the influence that star scientists have on the productivity and impact of young faculty, as well as on the likelihood that these young researchers become a leading personality in science. Our analysis confi...

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The aim of this paper is to analyze how a system of economic stimulus and recognition to the research activities in Mexico has impacted the scientific productivity of Higher Education Institutions (HEI). This analysis uses a database with information of 27,667 Mexican researchers who have been benefited from the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (...

Purpose To address the increasingly turbulent environments that businesses face, the purpose of this study is to build on prior research to propose a comprehensive model aimed at enhancing business school education in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach The authors modified and adapted prior meta-analytic research on workplace training prog...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of networks on research output and impact. The analysis was done using a database of 2150 Mexican engineers who have been members of the National System of Researchers. Results show that although there are several methods to measure centrality and structure in the social network analysis theory, n...

Considering that modern science is conducted primarily through a network of collaborators who organize themselves around key researchers, this research develops and tests a characterization and assessment method that recognizes the particular endogenous, or self-organizing characteristics of research groups. Instead of establishing an ad-hoc unit o...

This article analyzes the determinants of annual installed capacity of photovoltaic power (PV) at a country level. Our results suggest that in the 15 countries studied, the factors promoting the deployment of PV systems are the net consumption of renewable electricity, the existence of a feed-in tariff and sustainable building requirements, as well...

This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this "catching up" hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to ge...

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This case focuses on two Mexican entrepreneurs whose secondhand product retail company has reached a point where they must decide whether to sell an equity stake to a venture capital fund (VCF) or request an equity contribution from existing shareholders. The VCF would ensure opening 40 stores in 2 years and a dramatic boost in the business, wherea...

Despite ongoing interest in deploying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development, their use in climate change adaptation remains under-studied. Based on the integration of adaptation theory and the existing literature on the use of ICTs in development, we present an analytical model for conceptualizing the contrib...

This paper provides useful insights for the design of networks that promote research productivity. The results suggest that the different dimensions of social capital affect scientific performance differently depending on the area of knowledge. Overall, dense networks negatively affect the creation of new knowledge. In addition, the analysis shows...

This paper aims to further our understanding of how embeddedness affects the research output and impact of scientists. The analysis uses an extensive panel data that allows an analysis of within person variation over time. It explores the simultaneous effects of different dimensions of network embeddedness over time at individual level. These inclu...

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009 This presentation was part of the session : Science and Innovation Workforce Council for Science and Technology (Mexico)

Mexico is among the set of countries that look at Science, Technology and Innovation a fundamental mechanism to support competitiveness, reach higher levels of economic growth and increase the social welfare of its citizens. This paper provides a description of the main policy initiatives to foster innovation in Mexico. Afterward, some characterist...

This paper examines the relationship between the social capital and knowledge creation in research, mostly in the context of universities. The analysis is developed considering all of the following critical aspects of social capital: direct ties, strengths of direct ties, density, structural holes, centrality, and external-internal index in terms o...

This paper explores recent trends in the scientific collaboration of the most productive academic engineers in Mexico. First, an analysis of team size, institutional and international collaboration is explored. Then, the relationship between social capital and knowledge creation is examined. For this purpose, knowledge creation is measured by resea...

The Mexican government faces significant challenges in providing resources and implementing policies, to support steps that have been taken to strengthen its science and technology capacity. The country's research and development (R&D) investments was less than 0.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2004, as compared with other countries. Abun...

This paper uses a unique data set of Mexican researchers to explore the determinants of research output and impact. Our findings confirm a quadratic relationship between age and the number of published papers. However, publishing peaks when researchers are approximately 53 years old, 5 or 10 years later than what prior studies have shown. Overall,...

In this paper, we analyze the research productivity of faculty entrepreneurs at 15 research institutes using a novel database combining faculty characteristics, licensing information, and journal publication records. We address two related research questions. First, are faculty entrepreneurs more productive researchers (“star scientists”) compared...

This paper uses a unique data set of Mexican researchers to explore the determinants of research productivity. Our findings confirm a quadratic relationship between age and productivity. However, productivity peaks when researchers are approximately 53 years old, 5 or 10 years later than what prior studies have shown. These results suggest that age...