Sharing economy: exploring social media and bibliometric evidence

The current structural changes in the world economy have led to the emergence and rapid proliferation of a new economic model whose individuals share assets owned by others. Thus was born the concept of Sharing Economy. This concept has been applied in several sectors with success as it is the case of the transport sector and the real estate sector. However, the Sharing Economy has become a complex phenomenon with several ramifications in different aspects, two of these same slopes are: academic and social. This thesis will focus on a big-time analysis of both strands. On the academic side, supporting a bibliometrics analysis will try to understand what the repercussions of this phenomenon at the level of academic publications, analyzing number of articles per year, authors, publications, terms and key articles. On the social side, relieving Crimson Hexagon's ForSight analysis software will analyze, number of tweets per year, authors and important events on the social network Twitter. This analysis has three main aims: firstly, to understand the phenomenon of Economy Sharing in the two aspects studied, secondly, to perceive the differences existing in the in the two strands studied and finally, using altmetrics discovering what is the difference between social relevant articles and the academic relevant articles of Sharing Economy.As atuais alterações estruturais na economia mundial levaram ao aparecimento e rápida proliferação de um novo modelo económico cujos indivíduos partilham ativos detidos por outros. Assim nasceu o conceito de Sharing Economy. Este conceito foi aplicado em diversos setores com sucesso como é o caso do setor dos transportes e do setor imobiliário. Contudo, a Sharing Economy tornou-se um fenómeno complexo com diversas ramificações em diferentes vertentes, duas dessas mesmas vertentes são: a académica e a social. Esta tese centrar-se-á numa análise de big data de ambas as vertentes. Na vertente académica, suportando de uma análise de bibliometria irá tentar perceber qual as repercussões deste fenómeno ao nível de publicações académicas, analisando número de artigos por ano, autores publicações, expressões e artigos chave. Na vertente social, socorrendo software de análise ForSight da Crimson Hexagon irá se preceder uma análise temporal do número de tweets por ano, autores e eventos importantes. Esta análise tem três intuitos principais: em primeiro lugar compreender o fenómeno do Sharing Economy nas duas vertentes estudadas, em segundo lugar, perceber as diferenças existentes nas duas vertentes estudadas e, por fim, e usando altmetrics, descobrir as diferenças entre artigos socialmente relevantes e academicamente relevantes sobre Sharing Economy

Congress UPV Proceedings of the 21ST International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators

This is the book of proceedings of the 21st Science and Technology Indicators Conference that took place in València (Spain) from 14th to 16th of September 2016. The conference theme for this year, ‘Peripheries, frontiers and beyond’ aimed to study the development and use of Science, Technology and Innovation indicators in spaces that have not been the focus of current indicator development, for example, in the Global South, or the Social Sciences and Humanities. The exploration to the margins and beyond proposed by the theme has brought to the STI Conference an interesting array of new contributors from a variety of fields and geographies. This year’s conference had a record 382 registered participants from 40 different countries, including 23 European, 9 American, 4 Asia-Pacific, 4 Africa and Near East. About 26% of participants came from outside of Europe. There were also many participants (17%) from organisations outside academia including governments (8%), businesses (5%), foundations (2%) and international organisations (2%). This is particularly important in a field that is practice-oriented. The chapters of the proceedings attest to the breadth of issues discussed. Infrastructure, benchmarking and use of innovation indicators, societal impact and mission oriented-research, mobility and careers, social sciences and the humanities, participation and culture, gender, and altmetrics, among others. We hope that the diversity of this Conference has fostered productive dialogues and synergistic ideas and made a contribution, small as it may be, to the development and use of indicators that, being more inclusive, will foster a more inclusive and fair world