Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado

University of Granada | UGR · Faculty of Communication and Documentation

Are multidisciplinary journals truly multidisciplinary, and, how has the multidisciplinary character of these journals evolved over the long term? Here, we assess these questions by analyzing data from the Journal Citation Reports. We examined 983,246 articles and reviews published between 1980 and 2021 in 127 journals categorized under ‘Multidisci...

Wikipedia talk pages serve as democratic forums for editors, fostering discussions on article content and policies, which markedly differ from the formal content of main articles. While existing research predominantly focuses on the articles themselves, this study explores the unique citation dynamics within talk pages. Utilising data from the Wiki...

In the evolving landscape of scientific research, ORCID identifiers are essential for maintaining academic integrity and enhancing research visibility. This study proposes a methodological framework for identifying and analyzing the presence and characteristics of researchers in a specific country in ORCID, using complementary data from OpenAlex to...

Altmetrics have led to new quantitative studies of science through social media interactions. However, there are no models of science communication that respond to the multiplicity of non-academic channels. Using the 3653 authors with the highest volume of altmetrics mentions from the main channels (Twitter, News, Facebook, Wikipedia, Blog, Policy...

The document 'Foundations of Narrative Bibliometrics' provides an analysis of the evolution of scientific assessment, highlighting the influence of manifestos such as DORA and CoARA in shaping ethical and responsible practices in academia, as well as their assimilation by Spanish scientific policies. It connects this context with the contributions...

There are well-known challenges in the assessment of learning in general, and especially in foreign language learning. The treatment of error in the classroom is a recent topic of research and one that has given rise to multiple approaches to pinpoint, identify and classify the errors made by learners of foreign and second languages. This article p...

This text underscores the importance of open resources like Wikidata for Social Sciences, providing access to data that facilitates research in social, economic, and cultural areas. In addition to describing the structure and operation of Wikidata, which uses an open, multilingual graph system to model complex relationships and make information acc...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is one of the most well-known university rankings, recognized for its objective and reproducible methodology. In contrast, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), which ranks institutions by scientific subjects and is also elaborated by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC), introduces methodol...

El documento 'Fundamentos de Bibliometría Narrativa' proporciona un análisis de la evolución de la evaluación científica, resaltando la influencia de manifiestos como DORA y CoARA en la configuración de prácticas éticas y responsables en la academia, así como su asimilación por las políticas científicas españolas. Este conecta dicho contexto con la...

Resumen Se presenta un estudio sobre la adopción de redes sociales por parte de las revistas científicas de mayor impacto (Q1) según el indicador Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) en las categorías de Communication y Library and Information Sciences (LIS). Se ha seguido una metodología descriptiva con un enfoque cuantitativo a través de la revisión de los...

This is a homage to Loet Leydesdorff, professor and leading scientist. Through the combination of overlay maps, a visualization technique proposed by himself and Ismael Ràfols, together with the CAMEOs (Characterizations Automatically Made and Edited Online) proposed by Howard White, we project his scientific trajectory in five different scenarios,...

Universities face increasing demands to improve their visibility, public outreach, and online presence. There is a broad consensus that scientific reputation significantly increases the attention universities receive. However, in most cases estimates of scientific reputation are based on composite or weighted indicators and absolute positions in un...

The paper explores the concept of Narrative Bibliometrics as a novel approach in academic evaluation. It presents a bridge between traditional metrics and the storytelling aspects of a researcher's contributions, offering more nuanced and contextualized evaluations. The paper identifies four types of narratives—Position, Context, Agents, and Audien...

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Introduction Altmetrics have been demonstrated as a promising tool for analyzing scientific communication on social media. Nevertheless, its application for research evaluation remains underdeveloped, despite the advancement of research in the study of diverse scientific interactions. Methods This paper develops a method for applying altmetrics in...

Universities face increasing demands to improve their visibility, public outreach, and online presence. There is a broad consensus that scientific reputation significantly increases the attention universities receive. However, in most cases estimates of scientific reputation are based on composite or weighted indicators and absolute positions in un...

Since Elon Musk revealed his intention to buy Twitter, unease has spread throughout the scientific community. What was once the main channel for scientific communication has now seen its predominance threatened. This work analyzes the changes and consequences over the first months of Musk’s administration –a period that was marked by incessant chan...

Altmetric research has seen its horizons expanded to the heterogeneity of interactions produced between scientific and non-scientific entities. In this context, Wikipedia stands out as a social media of particular interest as the page views of its articles have proven to be a valuable metric of social attention. The aim of this paper is to contribu...

Altmetrics have led to new quantitative studies of science through social media interactions. However, there are no models of science communication that respond to the multiplicity of non-academic channels. Using the 3653 authors with the highest volume of altmetrics mentions from the main channels (Twitter, News, Facebook, Wikipedia, Blog, Policy...

There has been a proliferation of descriptive for COVID-19 papers using altmetrics. The main objective of this study is to analyse whether the altmetric mentions of COVID-19 medical studies are associated with the type of study and its level of evidence. Data were collected from PubMed and Altmetric.com databases. A total of 16,672 study types (e.g...

COVID-19 has greatly impacted science. It has become a global research front that constitutes a unique phenomenon of interest for the scientometric community. Accordingly, there has been a proliferation of descriptive studies on COVID-19 papers using altmetrics. Social media metrics serve to elucidate how research is shared and discussed, and one o...

The growing importance of public innovation has been manifested through the creation of policy labs: spaces for policy experimentation and innovation that work for or within a government entity. The rise of this phenomenon in Europe was evidenced by the creation of a policy lab by the European Commission (EC) in 2016 and publication by the EC of a...

There are well-known challenges in the assessment of learning in general, and especially in foreign language learning. The treatment of error in the classroom is a recent topic of research and one that has given rise to multiple approaches to pinpoint, identify and classify the errors made by learners of foreign and second languages. This article p...

The article focuses on the description of the InfluScience project and the results achieved. It outlines the project's objectives, which center on analyzing Spanish scien-tific production from the perspective of altmetrics. The project aims to measure the mediatic, social, educational, and political impact of Spanish publications in Web of Science....

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and is also a frequent subject of scientific research. However, the analytical possibilities of Wikipedia information have not yet been analyzed considering at the same time both a large volume of pages and attributes. The main objective of this work is to offer a methodological framework a...

Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and is also a frequent subject of scientific research. However, the analytical possibilities of Wikipedia information have not yet been analyzed considering at the same time both a large volume of pages and attributes. The main objective of this work is to offer a methodological framework a...

This study offers a detailed snapshot of the current state of library and information university education in Spain. Statistical data are provided regarding both the number and type of university courses, describing existing institutions and the degree levels available while also providing data on student enrolment and teaching faculty. Resumen Se...

In 2021, Clarivate published a new version of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) including a new indicator. The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is a new field-normalized metric at journal-level, which is calculated by averaging the Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of the journal's articles and reviews published in the preceding three-yea...

Bibliometrics is facing an intricate universe of data that is constantly changing and expanding, with a wide ecosystem of data sources in which it is easy to get lost. In this complex setting, APIs are positioned as the perfect solution to deal with this heterogeneity and to obtain adapted data. Although APIs have not come as a surprise, it is now...

This paper presents data on research publications authored by scientists affiliated with Spanish institutions between 2016 and 2020, along with their associated social media and altmetric mentions, and on researchers affiliated with Spanish institutions whose work is highly mentioned on social media and non-academic outlets. The first dataset conta...

Since their formal proposal in 2010, various studies have been carried out on altmetrics from different perspectives and at different levels. However, the problem of the country-specific differences found in such studies has not been addressed in depth and considering the wide range of social media sources. This paper presents a cross-country compa...

The aim of this study is to analyze to which extent the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) reflects the amount of excellent publications contained in a journal in the corresponding subject category. We are introducing two percentile-based indicators in order to measure the excellence contribution at journal level. Calculations of these indicators have bee...

La trata de personas es un fenómeno vinculado a diferentes finalidades de explotación, como la sexual, laboral, para el matrimonio, la mendicidad, la comisión de delitos o la extracción de órganos. Existen numerosos debates que remiten a una posible sobrerrepresentación de algunas de estas finalidades, como la sexual, en los discursos presentes en...

Altmetric indicators allow exploring and profiling individuals who discuss and share scientific literature in social media. But it is still a challenge to identify and characterize communities based on the research topics in which they are interested as social and geographic proximity also influence interactions. This paper proposes a new method wh...

La Formación Profesional Dual se introdujo en España en el año 2012 como una de las medidas encaminadas a combatir el elevado desempleo juvenil. Su proceso de desarrollo e implementación se encuentra marcado por la variación autonómica y por la participación de una amplia gama de actores. La evolución de las relaciones entre actores en el ámbito de...

Assessing the impact of scholarly books is a difficult research evaluation problem. Library Catalog Analysis facilitates the quantitative study, at different levels, of the impact and diffusion of academic books based on data about their availability in libraries. The WorldCat global catalog collates data on library holdings, offering a range of to...

Assessing the impact of scholarly books is a difficult research evaluation problem. Library Catalog Analysis facilitates the quantitative study, at different levels, of the impact and diffusion of academic books based on data about their availability in libraries. The WorldCat global catalog collates data on library holdings, offering a range of to...

Purpose The present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-language, independent publishing market. The main purposes are to determine whether certain Latin American Spanish-language independent publishers function as gatekeepers of world literature and to analyze the geopolitical structure of this global market,...

The present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-language, independent publishing market. The main purposes are to determine whether certain Latin American Spanish-language independent publishers function as gatekeepers of World Literature and to analyze the geopolitical structure of this global market, addressi...

In 2009, Torres-Salinas & Moed proposed the use of library catalogs to analyze the impact and dissemination of academic books in different ways. Library Catalog Analysis (LCA) can be defined as the application of bibliometric techniques to a set of online library catalogs in order to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis...

In recent years, new indicators known as altmetrics have been introduced to measure the impact of scientific activity. These indicators are obtained through the mentions realised from different social media, existing several aggregators of these data that collect several of them in the same database, being Altmetric.com the most popular. However, i...

This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been adapted to this context in order to generate Pathfinder networks (PFNET) that highlight the most rele...

This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been adapted to this context in order to generate Pathfinder networks (PFNET) that highlight the most rele...

In 2009, Torres-Salinas & Moed proposed the use of library catalogs to analyze the impact and dissemination of academic books in different ways. Library Catalog Analysis (LCA) can be defined as the application of bibliometric techniques to a set of online library catalogs in order to describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis...

The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations to Wikipedia article references and, subsequently, to map these relationships between scientific papers. This theory, originally applied to scientific literature, will be transferred to the digital environment of collective knowledge generation. To this...

This paper aims to map and identify topics of interest within the field of Microbiology and identify the main sources driving such attention. We combine data from Web of Science and Altmetric.com, a platform which retrieves mentions to scientific literature from social media and other non-academic communication outlets. We focus on the disseminatio...

This paper aims to map and identify topics of interest within the field of Microbiology and identify the main sources driving such attention. We combine data from Web of Science and Altmetric.com, a platform which retrieves mentions to scientific literature from social media and other non-academic communication outlets. We focus on the disseminatio...

Recent years have seen a veritable boom in the creation of policy labs. These institution-based innvation laboratories aim to open up the processes of public policy design to the social stakeholders involved. In 2016, the European Union Policy Lab commissioned a report that identified 64 such laboratories in Europe. In the present study, we use net...

Las bibliotecas se encuentran muy vinculadas a Linked Data (LD) debido al alto nivel de estructuración de sus datos, aunque los proyectos relacionados con ello son elaborados principalmente por grandes bibliotecas. En el presente trabajo se ha determinado su estado de la cuestión, analizando algunos de los proyectos referentes, ciclos de vida y her...