Víctor Herrero-Solana

Víctor Herrero-Solana
University of Granada | UGR · Departamento de Información y Comunicación

PhD

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November 1999 - present
University of Granada
Position
  • Professor (Full)
October 1998 - November 1999
Universidad de Extremadura
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  • Research Assistant
July 1996 - March 1997
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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  • Instructor

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Publications (148)
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Introducción. Se analiza el impacto y el modo en el que la disciplina académica del periodismo investigó sobre el Covid-19 y su repercusión metodológica, temática y de fuentes. Metodología. Se obtiene un universo de 124 artículos mediante agrupación algorítmica por InCites (micro tópico periodismo, afiliación española y palabra clave covid-19). Se...
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This research builds an updated map of the Chilean press on the web and social networks and evaluates the attention of researchers by identifying collective criteria to address the object “Chilean press”. Methodologically, it works on the concept of academic impact and uses automation in Python language to measure it, analyzing web audiences with S...
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Los mapas mediáticos son herramientas fundamentales para el estudio y análisis de los procesos de comunicación en una región. En el caso de Hispanoamérica los ejemplos disponibles son pocos e incompletos. El objetivo de esta investigación es la construcción de un mapa inédito y actual del dominio de la prensa hispanoamericana y, para ello, recurrim...
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The media maps are fundamental tools for the study and analysis of communication prosses in a region. In Hispano-American case the available examples are few and incomplete. The objective of this research is the construction of an unpublished current map of the dominance of the Hispano American Press, to this end, we methodologically resort to prec...
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Telegram, an Industry 4.0 style communication service, is one of the world’s most widespread communication platforms. The availability of channels and bots has opened as a broadcast channel for any media outlet. We asked the following questions: Do media outlets from Spain use Telegram channels? Which media outlets? Are they verified? What is their...
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Industry 4.0 (i4.0) is one of the fields of knowledge that is most extensively researched recently and whose definition is the most controversial, and Latin America (LatAm) is no exception. Identifying the LatAm countries and institutions with the highest degree of innovation and global impact in the i4.0 field. New citation micro-topics were used...
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Background. Telegram, an Industry 4.0 style Russian-born communication service, is one of the world’s most widespread communication platforms despite Putin’s censorship. The availability of channels and bots has opened as a broadcast channel for any media outlet. Objetives. We asked the following questions: Do Spanish media outlets use Telegram cha...
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This paper presents a bibliometric study on patents and scientific publications related to airborne electromagnetic methods used as less invasive technologies in mineral exploration. A statistical analysis of the documents reveals the main players, technology trends, and collaboration patterns via bibliometric techniques. The article aims to analys...
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Europa impulsa la especialización inteligente con la finalidad de disminuir la brecha de las distintas regiones en investigación e innovación favoreciendo, a través de éstas, la diferenciación y transformación económica. Para ello, las inversiones deben centrarse en un pequeño número de prioridades según las características de cada región, para max...
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Se presentan resultados del abordaje de la Comunicación a partir de indicadores de exlenecia y liderazgo científico del Scimago Institucion Ranking
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Desde su génesis, el campo de la Comunicación se ha distinguido por su marcado carácter contextual y pragmático además de una insuficiente legitimidad epistemológica. Partiendo de este presupuesto en la presente investigación se realiza un acercamiento a este campo desde la perspectiva de la metría de la información tomando como referente la produc...
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Desde su génesis, el campo de la Comunicación se ha distinguido por su marcado carácter contextual y pragmático además de una insuficiente legitimidad epistemológica. Partiendo de este presupuesto en la presente investigación se realiza un acercamiento a este campo desde la perspectiva de la metría de la información tomando como referente la produc...
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Technology watch is a methodology for organisations to systematically analyze technical information in a continuous way in order to gain insight and competitive advantage in a specific technical domain and is based mainly on statistical analysis of patent information. Patent statistics are commonly based on bibliographic data and generated with bib...
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Patents are an essential information source used to monitor, track, and analyze nanotechnology. When it comes to search nanotechnology-related patents, a keyword search is often incomplete and struggles to cover such an interdisciplinary discipline. Patent classification schemes can reveal far better results since they are assigned by experts who c...
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This poster presents the indicators of a patentometric study of Spanish nanotechnology [1] that was presented in a Nanotech Event [2]. The analysis was conducted for the years 2004 to 2014 and the search strategy was based on keywords of a established query [3] and relevant patent classifications. As a patent data source the database Espacenet-Worl...
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From a theoretical perspective the present contribution concentrates on exposing the importance and necessity of developing systematic strategies of research evaluation to improve management in the Cuban communication field. The evaluation of the topic is briefly addressed by emphasizing Social Sciences. This paper also presents the potentialities...
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In this work, which is based on a PhD thesis [1] in the framework of a funded project [2], a patentometric study of Spanish nanotechnology is done for the years 2004 to 2014. We identified relevant patent classifications and combined them with an established lexical query for nanotechnology [3]. By using Espacenet data source (DocDB) which had the...
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Espacenet, Patentscope and Depatisnet are known as the main multinational patent databases offered by patent authorities which are available to the public free of charge. As all three systems have substantially improved in the last few years, a comparison of their functionalities and capabilities, as discussed herein, is useful for those unfamiliar...
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Objetivos Analizar el grado y las características de la implantación de la infografía y la visualización de datos en cuatro periódicos españoles. Material y métodos Se estudiaron las infografías publicadas durante dos meses por los periódicos El País, El Mundo, Marca y El Correo. Resultados Se encontró que si bien los periódicos estudiados hacen...
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The dissemination of scientific information and its presence in the main media converge on the Internet. Both processes contribute to create the online reputation of an academic institution. This study discusses whether the research competence of a university has an impact on its digital media presence. To answer this question, we measured and com...
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Contexto. Twitter es una de las herramientas más utilizadas hoy en día por los periodistas de todo el mundo. Una de las medidas de visibilidad más importantes de una cuenta de Twitter es la cantidad de se­ guidores. En el presente trabajo se analiza el comportamiento de los medios de comunicación españoles y de sus directores, a la luz de este indi...
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Institutional domain analysis is a very important bibliometric method to obtain an academic institutional scientific profile. In this paper we realize a deep analysis about the scientific production of the University of Granada, from 1991 to 1999. We present a wide set of indicators: production, visibility, normalized mean impact, productivity, res...
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[ES] En el presente trabajo se propone un sistema de información cuyo objetivo general consiste en representar gráficamente la investigación científica española. Dicha representación gráfica se concibe como una colección de mapas –de ahí el término atlas– que persigue tres objetivos fundamentales: • Facilitar a la comunidad científica española un i...
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Background. Twitter is one of the tools used today by journalists from around the world. one measure of visibility of a Twitter account is the number of followers. In this paper we analyze the behavior on Twitter in the Spanish media and its directors. Material and methods. We use the followers of the directors and media Twitter accounts. With this...
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Models for the production of knowledge and systems of innovation and science are key elements for characterizing a country in view of its scientific thematic profile. With regard to scientific output and publication in journals of international visibility, the countries of the world may be classified into three main groups according to their themat...
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Resumen Este artículo tiene por objetivo analizar cuáles han sido los principales temas de interés en el campo de la investigación científica dentro del área de la Ciencia de la Información en Brasil a lo largo de la primera década de este siglo (2000-2009). Para ello se ha analizado el contenido de la producción científica publicada en cuatro de l...
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Estudios sectoriales de vigilancia tecnológica es una serie de informes publicados por la Agencia de Innovación y Desarrollo de Andalucía (Agencia IDEA) en cooperación con el grupo de investigación SCImago, entre otros. Su objetivo es proporcionar a la comunidad empresarial e investigadora de Andalucía informes de situación de determinados sectores...
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Las tesis doctorales constituyen un medio de producción científica que suele estar poco estudiado. Esto se debe principalmente a que su circuito de difusión es bastante reducido. A pesar de estas limitaciones, en el presente trabajo se realiza un análisis temático comparativo de las tesis producidas en el ámbito de la comunicación en las dos princi...
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El trabajo, que se llevó a cabo sobre datos de Scopus, tuvo como propósito retratar las principales tendencias y características de la producción científica de América Latina y el Caribe durante el periodo 1996-2007. Para ello se analizaron la producción y la citación, los perfiles de publicación y la colaboración científica, con especial énfasis e...
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The study, carried out on the data from Scopus shows the main trends and characteristics of scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1996–2008. The scientific production and citation, publication profiles and cooperation were studied, with special emphasis on the ten major producers of the region. The analysis revealed...
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This paper offers a comparative analysis of databases of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and Scopus in terms of coverage of journals, scientific output and visibility of the most productive Latin American and Caribbean countries in these capacities. Results show wide coverage of national journals indexed in SCimago Journal and Countr...
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In recent years a number of studies have focused on Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis and its political, social, and institutional repercussions. To date, however, no studies have analyzed its effects upon the country’s scientific system from a scientometric perspective, in terms of resources dedicated to scientific activity and the final output and...
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Las revistas académico-científicas son uno de los principales canales de comunicación y difusión de los resultados de investigación. Sin embargo no todas tienen el mismo prestigio y grado de influencia en la comunidad científica. De su calidad y visibilidad dependen, en gran medida, las posibilidades de que un trabajo sea conocido, leído y citado....
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The academic-scientific journals are one of the outstanding means of communication and diffusion of the investigation results. Nevertheless they don't have all the same prestige and degree of influence in the scientific community. The possibilities that a work is well-known, read and cited depend on its quality and visibility. The aim of this inves...
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Resumen Los tag-clouds, o nubes de etiquetas, son componentes de interfaz en forma de lista compacta de palabras clave, que permiten al usuario explorar y navegar por conjuntos documentales. Si bien en los últimos años han gozado de gran popularidad en el entorno Web, también es cierto que, como interfaces visuales de recuperación de información, p...
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1. Introducción La evaluación de la investigación científica de países y regiones del mundo por medio de indicadores bibliométricos es una actividad con una larga tradición [10]. Price [15], Braun, Glanzel y Schubert [3], entre muchos otros, han realizado aportaciones de gran relevancia a esta materia. Mediante el uso de indicadores es posible dete...
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EN EL PRESENTE ARTÍCULO MOSTRAMOS EL NIVEL DE LO QUE SE SUELE LLAMAR SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACIÓN EN LOS PAÍSES ÁRABES. SE PRESENTAN LOS PROBLEMAS QUE HAN ENCONTRA­DO LAS NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS PARA SU IMPLANTACIÓN Y EVO­LUCIÓN EN ESTA ZONA; CUÁL HA SIDO LA POSTURA DE LOS DI­FERENTES PAÍSES FRENTE A LAS POSIBILIDADES OFRECIDAS POR INTERNET, DESDE SU ORIG...
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Analysis of the citations received by the journal El profesional de la información (EPI) according to the databases ISI Science Citation Index (WoS) from Thomson Reuters, and Scopus from Elsevier, which index the journal since 2006. There are three main groups (or themes) recognized, that potentially can generate citations: bibliometrics, medicine,...
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El estudio de la coautoría de un determinado grupo de personas perteneciente a una determinada institución, permite apreciar tanto las relaciones internas como externas de dicho colectivo. Si ha esta fuente de datos se le aplican técnicas de visualización basados en análisis de redes sociales, el resultado es aún más rico y complejo. En el presente...
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The degree of international visibility is an important indicator about the quality of a journal. In this study we analyze the citation of Ibero-American journals in Library and Information Science (LIS). To do this we minning the Web of Science (WOS) in order to retrieve the different citation forms for all journals. The results are presented in ma...
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The degree of international visibility is an important indicator about the quality of a journal. In this study we analyze the citation of Ibero- American journals in Library and Information Science (LIS). To do this we minning the Web of Science (WOS) in order to retrieve the different citation forms for all journals. The results are presented in m...
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The intellectual structure and main research fronts of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of the National University of La Plata, Argentina is studied, based on the cocitation analysis of subject categories, journals and authors of their scientific publications collected in the Science Citation Index, CD-ROM version, for the period 1991–200...
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It accomplishes a bibliometric analysis of the journal ‘Ciência da Informação’, one of the issues with highest visibility in the Librarianship and Information Science field in Brazil. This study is accomplished aiming to establish the quantification of a serie of indicators which allows it to configurates an overview of the scientific production re...
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This study proposes a new methodology that allows for the generation of scientograms of major scientific domains, constructed on the basis of cocitation of Institute of Scientific Information categories, and pruned using PathfinderNetwork, with a layout determined by algorithms of the spring-embedder type (Kamada–Kawai), then corroborated structura...
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Our aim is to compare the coverage of the Scopus database with that of Ulrich, to determine just how homogenous it is in the academic world. The variables taken into account were subject distribution, geographical distribution, distribution by publishers and the language of publication. The analysis of the coverage of a product of this nature shoul...
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Se muestra aquí la pertinencia y utilidad del análisis de co-citas como método de investigación en Biblioteco- logía y Ciencia de la Información (BCI), mediante un análisis bibliométrico y una revisión del contenido de los principales trabajos publicados sobre este tema. Se analiza el tamaño y evolución de la literatura, la tipolo- gía documental y...
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The pertinence and Utility of co-citation analysis as a research method in Library and Information Science (LIS) are shown by means of bibliometric nd content analysis of the main works published on this topic. The size and evolution of the literature are analysed, as well as the documentary typology and the subject of the journals where the main c...
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The situation of Information Science in Arab Countries is described, and problems related to the implementation of new information technologies in the region, also considered, as well as the attitude of each one of these countries towards Internet. Socio-economic (population, density, per capita income, literacy) and technological indicators (numbe...
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A PESAR DEL TIEMPO TRANSCURRIDO, el ranking, sea cual fuere su naturaleza, sigue siendo la herramienta preferida para analizar comparativamente todo tipo de instituciones científicas. Producción, citación, recursos humanos, recursos financieros, páginas web, todo es susceptible de ser utilizado para crear estos listados ponderados que solemos ident...
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Cuantificación de la investigación universitaria desde que comenzó la convergencia hacia el Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. El sistema universitario representa el 66,43% sobre el total de producción científica española con visibilidad internacional en el quinquenio 2000-04, medida a través del Web of Science. Setenta universidades españolas...
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Social tagging is a distributed indexing process where web resources are described by means of tags – freely chosen keywords or labels – by their users. The aggregated result of social tagging is usually known as Folksonomy, an index where each resource is related to different tags by different users. This paper describes an approach to visualize b...
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This study proposes a new methodology that allows for the generation of scientograms of major scientific domains, constructed on the basis of cocitation of Institute of Scientific Information categories, and pruned using PathfinderNetwork, with a layout determined by algorithms of the spring-embedder type (Kamada–Kawai), then corroborated structura...
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In a previous issue we introduced the controversial new index h, proposed by Jorge Hirsch, in turn praised, criticized and studied by leading authors in the field of bibliometrics. Recall that the underlying idea is as ingenious as simple. Is simply to arrange the works of an author of a decreasing under the citations received by each job. At the t...
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Quantification of the university research since the convergence towards the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) began. The university system represents the 66,43% on the total Spanish scientific production with international visibility in the five-year period 2000-04, measured through the Web of Science. Seventy Spanish universities have an inter...
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The National Evaluation of research activity (CNEAI) was created in 1989 as an organization under the Ministry of Education and Science. Performs evaluation of research activities of university professors and CSIC scientific scales. The application for assessment (for six years) is voluntary, as it is to get a complement of productivity incentive,...
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A PESAR DEL TIEMPO TRANSCURRIDO, el ranking, sea cual fuere su naturaleza, sigue siendo la herramienta preferida para analizar comparativamente todo tipo de instituciones científicas. Producción, citación, recursos humanos, recursos financieros, páginas web, todo es susceptible de ser utilizado para crear estos listados ponderados que solemos ident...
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En un número anterior habíamos introducido el nuevo y polémico índice h, pro- puesto por Jorge Hirsch, a su vez alabado, criticado y estudiado por los más importantes autores del campo de la bibliometría. Recordemos que la idea que subyace es tan ingeniosa como sencilla. Consiste simplemente en ordenar los trabajos de un autor de forma decreciente...
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In this paper we analyze a bibliometric analysis of the journal Ciência da Informação, one of the publications with more visibility in the field of the library and information science of Brazil. This study is carried out with an eye toward the quantification of a series of indicators that configure a panorama of the scientific production registered...