The use of Audience Response Systems in the Faculty of Economics and Business: an case of study

We have investigated the effectiveness of clickers as a support tool of the learning process of economics in higher education, specifically on the subject of Principle of Economics. We assessed whether support teaching with the use of Audience Response Systems (ARSs) increase the probability that the student passes the examination in both its theoretical and practical. We propose a mixed methodology, a bivariate probit model framed by statistical causal inference, which provides robust results. We have found strong statistical evidence, that the ARSs offer outstanding support to teaching, although with constraints. First focuses on the aforementioned theoretical and secondly, the help offered by the students ARSs is clearly a function of the frequency of use thereof cited by students

Has globalization strengthened South Korea's national research system?

노트 : The authors acknowledge a support from the SSK (Social Science Korea) Program funded by National Research Foundation of South Korea; NRF-2010-330-B00232

Visualization of scientific co-authorship in Spanish universities: from regionalization to internationalization

Purpose – To visualize the inter-university and international collaboration networks generated by Spanish universities based on the co-authorship of scientific articles. Design/methodology/approach - Formulation based on a bibliometric analysis of Spanish university production from 2000 to 2004 as contained in Web of Science databases, applying social network visualization techniques. The co-authorship data used were extracted with the total counting method from a database containing 100,710 papers. Findings – Spanish inter-university collaboration patterns appear to be influenced by both geographic proximity and administrative and political affiliation. Inter-regional co-authorship encompasses regional sub-networks whose spatial scope conforms rather closely to Spanish geopolitical divisions. Papers involving international collaboration are written primarily with European Union and North and Latin American researchers. Greater visibility is attained with international co-authorship than any other type of collaboration studied. Research limitations/implications - Impact was measured in terms of journals rather than each individual article. The co-authorship data were taken from the Web of Knowledge and were not compared to data from other databases. Practical implications - The data obtained may provide guidance for public policy makers seeking to enhance and intensify the internationalization of scientific production in Spanish universities. Originality – The Spanish university system is in the midst of profound structural change. This is the first article to describe Spanish university collaboration networks using social network visualization techniques, covering an area not previously addressed.Publicad

Estructura de las redes de colaboración científica entre las universidades españolas

Conference paper: XIII Encuentros Internacionales sobre sistemas de Información y Documentación IBERSID 2008, Zaragoza (Spain), 1-3 October 2008.Objetivo: Análisis bibliométrico de la red de colaboración científica que genera la coautoría de artículos entre autores de las universidades españolas. Material y métodos: Selección de documentos contenidos en el Science and Social Citation Index, entre 2000 y 2004. Se analizan los datos de producción más importantes aplicando el método de análisis de redes sociales, elaborando un mapa bibliométrico que permite su visualización. Resultados: La red de colaboración interuniversitaria en España resultante, permite observar que está compuesta mediante la interconexión de subredes de colaboración de ámbito regional. Conclusiones: La red de colaboración entre las universidades españolas se constituye en un gran componente con ausencia de componentes alternativos y/o nodos aislados. La colaboración entre los investigadores universitarios españoles está geográficamente localizada.Objetive: Bibliometric analysis of scientific research co authorship network from Spanish universities. Material and Methods: selection of documents from Science and Social Citation Index, from 2000 to 2004. The more important output data are analyzed applying social network analysis, and developing a bibliometric map that allows its visualization. Results: The Spanish intrasectorial university network it´s compound by the interconnection of subnetwork of regional scope Conclusions: The research collaboration network between the Spanish universities constitutes a great component with absence of alternative components and/or isolated nodes. Spanish university research networks are geographically localized.Publicad

Mapping academic institutions according to their journal publication profile: Spanish universities as a case study

Post-print versionWe introduce a novel methodology for mapping academic institutions based on their journal publication profiles. We believe that journals in which researchers from academic institutions publish their works can be considered as useful identifiers for representing the relationships between these institutions and establishing comparisons. However, when academic journals are used for research output representation, distinctions must be introduced between them, based on their value as institution descriptors. This leads us to the use of journal weights attached to the institution identifiers. Since a journal in which researchers from a large proportion of institutions published their papers may be a bad indicator of similarity between two academic institutions, it seems reasonable to weight it in accordance with how frequently researchers from different institutions published their papers in this journal. Cluster analysis can then be applied to group the academic institutions, and dendrograms can be provided to illustrate groups of institutions following agglomerative hierarchical clustering. In order to test this methodology, we use a sample of Spanish universities as a case study. We first map the study sample according to an institution’s overall research output, then we use it for two scientific fields (Information and Communication Technologies, as well as Medicine and Pharmacology) as a means to demonstrate how our methodology can be applied, not only for analyzing institutions as a whole, but also in different disciplinary contexts

Las redes de investigación

Las redes se han convertido en un camino para la publicación científica en la actualidad. La relación que se realiza entre los miembros de las distintas redes hace que la creación de temas de interés surjan, realizándose la contribución de sus miembros tanto intelectualmente como intercambiando los materiales bibliográficos de actualidad. Así como también constituyen a las vinculaciones positivas entre las instituciones que conforman las redes tanto en el intercambio de conocimiento como en las alianzas para desarrollar investigaciones

Las redes de investigación

Las redes se han convertido en un camino para la publicación científica en la actualidad. La relación que se realiza entre los miembros de las distintas redes hace que la creación de temas de interés surjan, realizándose la contribución de sus miembros tanto intelectualmente como intercambiando los materiales bibliográficos de actualidad. Así como también constituyen a las vinculaciones positivas entre las instituciones que conforman las redes tanto en el intercambio de conocimiento como en las alianzas para desarrollar investigaciones