Normalización automática de registros obtenidos de la Web of Science

Los lenguajes de programación orientados al tratamiento automático de textos ya han demostrado anteriormente su utilidad para procesar y gestionar los registros bibliográficos obtenidos de diferentes bases de datos. Concretamente el lenguaje Perl ha sido utilizado en numerosas metodologías relacionadas con la bibliometría, para extraer los diferentes elementos de los registros bibliográficos, incorporarlos a bases de datos relacionales, procesarlos y obtener de ellos múltiples indicadores. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo el desarrollo de un sistema de normalización de datos, basado en scripts de Perl y en algoritmos de similaridad, que nos permitan realizar una normalización básica sobre los nombres de autor, direcciones y palabras clave procedentes de los registros obtenidos a través de la Web of Science. El procedimiento posee un margen de error muy pequeño y es especialmente eficiente en los nombres de instituciones, permitiendo eliminar más del 60% de la redundancia en este campo, un 10% en el caso de los nombres de autor y alrededor de un 50% en cuanto a las palabras claveProgramming languages focused on automatic text processing have previously demonstrated their utility to process and manage bibliographic records obtained from different databases. Specifically, Perl has been used in many methodologies related to bibliometrics to extract the different elements of bibliographic records, incorporate them to relational databases, and process them to get multiple indicators. This work aims to develop a normalization system based on Perl scripts and similarity algorithms, which allow us to perform a basic normalization of author names, addresses and keywords from records obtained through Web of Science. The procedure has a very small margin of error and is especially efficient in the names of institutions, eliminating more than 60% of the redundancy in this field, 10% in the case of the author’s names and about 50% on the keywords.Publicad

Role taxonomy of green and sustainable science and technology journals: exportation, importation, specialization and interdisciplinarity

Sustainability science is, per se, a topic that is inherently interdisciplinarity and oriented towards the resolution of societal problems. In this paper, we propose a classification of scientific journals that composes the journal category Green and Sustainable Science and Technology in the period 2014-2018 through the entropy-based disciplinarity indicator (EBDI). This indicator allows the classification of scientific journals in four types based on the citing and cited dimensions: knowledge importer, knowledge exporter, disciplinary and interdisciplinarity. Moreover, the relationship between this taxonomy and the JCR bibliometric indicators and its predictive capacity of the taxonomy is explored through a CHAID tree. As well, relations between the Web of Science categories, journals and taxonomy are explored by the co-occurrence of categories and correspondence analysis. Results suggest that the great majority of journals in this field are specialized or interdisciplinary. However, over the 5-year period proposed in this study, interdisciplinary journals tend to be far more stable than specialized ones. The decision tree has shown that the number of citations is the variable with the greatest discriminating capacity.Open access funding provided by University of Gävle

Reflections on the diffusion of management and organization research in the context of open science in Europe

Management and organization research (MOR) faces a crisis related to its social impact and limited response to grand societal challenges. It is also affected by the ongoing transformations in all scientific fields related to the creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge shaping known as “open science” (OS). According to the European Commission, OS must increase the links between the scientific fields and society to make science a socioeconomic engine to overcome these challenges. Therefore, contacting the public through social networks extends the social impact of MOR and facilitates new scientific evaluation metrics. Through an exploratory topic model applied to the Twitter activity of six European highly cited researchers (HCRs) in “economics and business”, we show that a large part of the Twitter activity of these HCRs refers to not only the content of their scientific work but also the social echo that has increased symbolic capital for HCRsThis work was supported by the project Diagnosis of OS in Spanishe universities and instruments for its transformation and improvement (DOSSUET, PID 2019-104052RB-C21), financed by the Spanish State Program for Oriented R + D + i to the Challenges of the Societ

Edad, género y estatus profesional de los investigadores como indicadores de la percepción de Twitter en la difusión de la ciencia

The objective of this study is to evaluate the level of satisfaction and interest that researchers from Spanish universities present through social networks like Twitter. To do so, we examined the data obtained through an online survey from over 600 researchers proactive in science dissemination from 20 Spanish universities (2016). In regard to the data analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis independence test was used. According to the results, two out of three researchers (65.4%) perceived benefits after the science communication campaign and a large majority (84.7%) did not perceive any damage. In relation to social networks, three out of four researchers (74.6%) think that it is an important instrument to improve scientific communication, although less than half (41.4%) have an active open profile in social networks such as Twitter. In addition, female researchers perceive social networks to be more important than male researchers consider them to be, and those who have an active profile in social media networks value them even greate

Researchers' Age, Gender and Professional Status as Indicators of the Twitter Perception in Science Dissemination

El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar el grado de satisfacción e interés que presenta el personal de investigación de las universidades españolas por las redes sociales como Twitter. Para ello, se han examinado los datos obtenidos mediante una encuesta online a unos 600 investigadores proactivos de la divulgación científica de 20 universidades españolas (2016). Para el análisis de los datos, se utilizó el test de independencia de Kruskal-Wallis. Según los resultados, dos de cada tres (65.4%) investigadores percibieron beneficios después de haber realizado la comunicación de sus resultados de investigación y una gran mayoría (84.7%) no percibieron ningún perjuicio. En relación con las redes sociales, tres de cada cuatro investigadores (74.6%) opina que son un instrumento importante para mejorar la comunicación científica, aunque menos de la mitad (un 41.4%) tienen un perfil abierto activo en redes sociales como Twitter. Además, las investigadoras perciben las redes sociales como un medio más importante que los investigadores. Y quienes tienen perfil activo en redes sociales, las valoran mejor.The objective of this study is to evaluate the level of satisfaction and interest that researchers from Spanish universities present through social networks like Twitter. To do so, we examined the data obtained through an online survey from over 600 researchers proactive in science dissemination from 20 Spanish universities (2016). In regard to the data analysis, Kruskal-Wallis independence test was used. According to the results, two out of three researchers (65.4%) perceived benefits after the science communication campaign and a large majority (84.7%) did not perceive any damage. In relation to social networks, three out of four researchers (74.6%) think that it is an important instrument to improve scientific communication, although less than half (41.4%) have an active open profile in social networks such as Twitter. In addition, female researchers perceive social networks to be more important than male researchers consider them to be, and those who have an active profile in social media networks value them even greater

La producción y colaboración científica por área temática de las Universidades públicas españolas

Due to the growing interest in the evaluation systems of scientific activity, especially in university rankings, by the scientific community and government organs responsible for science policy, it is necessary to have tools to show what the different dimensions involved in these evaluation processes, especially in the case of universities, which have different profiles. For this reason, compared to synthetic indicators, it is considered more appropriate to have a battery of indicators grouped by areas of knowledge, in order to avoid comparative grievances and get as fairly as possible among evaluation objects. We present some preliminary results, by subject area, in relation to scientific production and the degree of international collaboration of Spanish public universities. The data were collected from those contained in the observatory IUNE, showing the scientific activity of the Spanish Universities grouped into 6 major areas: Arts and Humanities (ART) Life Sciences (BIO) Experimental Science (EXP ), Architecture, Engineering and Computer Science (ENG); Medicine and Pharmacology (MED) and Social Sciences (SOC). The time period studied covered the years 2002-2011. These results show that the area of Experimental Sciences (EXP) has the highest scientific activity, representing approximately 40% of total public university system, ahead of ING and MED, with percentages representing about 25% each one. These documents are published in international collaboration in different proportions, with the area of EXP with 43% of this type of document, which stands over others, such as ING and MED whose average rates of international collaborative papers is about 30 %

Contribución de la comunicación institucional de la investigación a su impacto y visibilidad. Caso de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Institutional offices for the communication and dissemination of science are gaining importance at Spanish universities, and their activities can contribute to increasing the visibility and reputation of researchers. This study aims to analyze the relations between the institutional communication of research results to the public and the impact and academic visibility of scientific papers. For this purpose, science communication and dissemination through press releases on R+D+i results from the Science Culture and Innovation Unit (SCIU) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) were selected as a case study. This SCIU was chosen because it has published yearly reports for more than a decade on the impact in the media of its press releases. Press dossiers of the last five years available (2014-2018) were examined. A database was created of the citations received by texts published in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science and their mentions on social networks through the company Altmetric.com. After that, this information was statistically analyzed. The main results show that the journal impact index is important for obtaining academic citations or appearing in Twitter conversations. However, the influence of the journal impact factor turns out to be lower when it comes to popularizing scientific publications in the media. Furthermore, the statistical evidence points out that scientific publications disseminated through the SCIU receive proportionally more citations than research that has not been disseminated through the institutional channel