CV Highlights – Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

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Bio in English

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia is a researcher in the field of bibliometrics and research evaluation. He currently enjoys a Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant within the LEaDing Fellows Programme at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, TU Delft (Netherlands). He previously worked at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) in Spain. He holds a PhD on Social Sciences at the University of Granada. He is member of the Steering Committee of the European Summer School for Scientometrics. He has published over 40 articles and book chapters in the field of bibliometrics and research evaluation, including in elite journals like Nature, Science or Plos One. He is Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics in the section on ‘Research Assessment’ and member of the editorial board of Quantitative Science Studies and Scientometrics.

Bio en español

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia es investigador en bibliometría y evaluación de la ciencia. Es investigador postdoctoral Marie Sklodowska-Curie dentro del programa COFUND LEaDing Fellows Programme en el Instituto de Matemática Aplicada de Delft, TU Delft (Países Bajos). Anteriormente trabajó en la Escuela de Política Pública de Georgia Institute of Technology y en INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) en España. Tiene un doctorado en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Granada. Es miembro del Comité Directivo de la European Summer School for Scientometrics. Ha publicado más de 40 artículos y capítulos en el ámbito de la bibliometría y la evaluación de la ciencia en revistas como Nature, Science o Plos One. Es editor asociado de Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics en la sección ‘Research Assessment’ y miembro del comité editorial de Quantitative Science Studies y Scientometrics.

If you’d like to get in touch with me feel free to email me at elrobinster@gmail.com. Check my latest updates to see what I am up to. I am also on Twitter, Google Scholar, ORCID, Publons or SlideShare.

2019- . Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral researcher, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, TU Delft (Netherlands)
2016- . Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University
2018-2019. External affiliate, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
2018-2019. Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación postdoctoral fellow, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
2017-2018. Postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
2015-2017. Juan de la Cierva-Formación postdoctoral fellow, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
2015. Postdoctoral researcher, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
2010-2014. PhD research fellow, Universidad de Granada (Spain)

2014 PhD in Social Sciences, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
2010 Masters in Scientific Information, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
2009 BA in Library & Information Studies, Universidad de Granada (Spain)

2019. Award to the trajectory of young scientists in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. Granted by the Social Council of the University of Granada. Announcement – Media coverage
2019. SCImago Award best paper in Library and Information Studies (4th ed.). Granted by El Profesional de la Información to the paper “New data, new possibilities: Exploring the insides of Altmetric.com”. doi:10.3145/epi.2014.jul.03 – Award announcement
2019-2021. Marie Sklodowska-Curie. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 707404. LEaDing Fellows website
2018-2020. Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación. Granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and co-funded by Universitat Politècnica de València.
2017. Award Extraordinary PhD Thesis in Social Sciences. Granted by the University of Granada
2017. José Castillejo/Fulbright. Granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and the Fulbright Commission.
2015-2017. Juan de la Cierva-Formación. Granted by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and co-funded by Universitat Politècnica de València.
2014-2015. Contrato-Puente. Granted by the University of Granada
2013. Award for the Business Initiative of the Year 2013 to Sexenios.com, currently a service offered by EC3metrics SL. Award granted by the Asociación Andaluza de Profesionales de la Información y la Documentación.
2010-2014. Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU). Granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Blog entries and articles

Robinson-Garcia, N. An interview with Juan Gorraiz. The Bibliomagician, March 25, 2020
Robinson-Garcia, N., Gadd, E. Results from the 2019 Responsible Metrics State of the Art Survey. The Bibliomagician, Nov 12, 2019
Van Leeuwen, T.N., Costas, R., Robinson-Garcia, N. Indicators of open access publishing in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019. CWTS Blog, May 15, 2019.
Robinson-Garcia, N., Woolley, R. La financiación de las universidades británicas a examen: ¿Excelencia científica o relevancia social? Nada es Gratis, Mar 9, 2018.
Robinson-Garcia, N. Los resultados del REF2014 de Reino Unido marcan el camino a seguir en la evaluación científica. Blok de BiD, Dec 12, 2017.
Costas, R., Yegros, A., Larivière, V., Sugimoto, C., Robinson-Garcia, N., Murray, D. The global scientific brain: Policy implications of barriers to scientific mobility. CWTS Blog, Oct 5, 2017.
Woolley, R. & Robinson-Garcia, N. The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact. LSE Impact Blog, July, 19, 2017.
Rafols, I., Robinson-Garcia & van Leeuwen, T.N. How to make altmetrics useful in societal impact assessments: shifting from citation to interaction approaches. LSE Impact Blog, March, 23, 2017.
Robinson-Garcia, N. Edición 2015 de Shanghai Ranking Expanded España e Iberoamérica. EC3metrics Noticias, Sept, 30, 2015.
Robinson-Garcia, N. Informes EC3metrics – Las universidades españolas en la edición 2015 del Ranking de Leiden. EC3metrics Noticias, Sept, 11, 2015.
Robinson-Garcia, N. & Torres-Salinas, D. Los nuevos índices de citas de Thomson Reuters ofrecen oportunidades para mejorar los rankings de universidades. Anuario ThinkEPI, 2014, 9, 207-210. doi:10.3145/thinkepi.2015.47. Material

Web portals and tools

2014. Publishers portal BIPublishers (Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers). Accessible at: http://bipublishers.es
2010-2014. ‘I-UGR Rankings of Spanish universities by scientific fields and disciplines’. Accessible at: http://rankinguniversidades.es

Press mentions

Brainard, J. Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat? Science. May 14, 2019. doi:10.1126/science.abc7839
Hays, B. Science has more impact when researchers travel, collaborate. United Press International. Nov 9, 2017
RadioLab UGR. P09 – #Evaluando en la I Reunión de Servicios de Evaluación Científica en los Vicerrectorados de Investigación [Programa de radio]. Oct 27, 2017
Las fronteras, una amenaza para la producción e impacto científico internacional, según un estudio. 20 minutos. Oct 6, 2017
Las fronteras, una amenaza para la producción e impacto científico internacional, según un estudio. La Vanguardia. Oct 6, 2017
La fuite des cerveaux est bonne pour la recherche. Le Point Sciences. Oct 6, 2017.
L’Heure de point – Toronto – Audio fil du vendredi 6 octubre 2017. Étude: Mobilité des chercheurs menacée par Trump et le Brexit. [Radio programme. Interview to V. Larivière]
Braun, B. Migrerende wetenschappers worden vaker geciteerd. Mare, Oct 5, 2017.
Researchers who change country produce more influential work. The Economist, Oct 4, 2017.
Chawla, D.S. Migrating researchers are cited the most. Science Magazine, Oct 4, 2017. doi:10.1126/science.aaq1218
Editorial: Science without walls is good for all. Nature, 2017, 550, 7-8. doi:10.1038/550007b
Pells, R. Fresh data supports freedom of movement for scientists. Times Higher Education Magazine, Oct 4, 2017.
Else, H. Tweets on academic papers ‘mechanical and devoid of original thought’. Times Higher Education Magazine, Sept 2, 2017.
Neuroskeptic. The “unbearable emptiness ” of Science in Twitter? Discover Magazine, Aug 27, 2017.
Van Noorden, R. Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers. Nature News, Feb 24, 2014. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.14763
Bohannon, J. Google Scholar wins raves – But can it be trusted? Science, 2014, 343(6166), 14. doi:10.1126/science.343.6166.14
A hombros de gigantes. Las grandes revistas científicas y los métodos de medición, cada vez más cuestionados [Interview to Emilio Delgado]. Radio Nacional de España, Dec 16, 2013.
Así lograron <<engañar>> a Google varios científicos españoles. ABC, Dec 14, 2013.
UGRDivulga. El experimento español ‘Pantani-Contador’ demuestra lo fácil que es engañar a Google Scholar. AgenciaSINC, Dec 10, 2013.

2020-2022. Meaningful Data Counts. Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- Members: Stefanie Haustein (PI), Isabella Peters (co-PI), Daniella Lowenberg, Felicity Tayler, Rodrigo Costas, Peter Kraker, Philippe Mongeon, and Nicolas Robinson-Garcia
- Funding: $199,929 US
- Website
2019-2021. Unveiling the Ecosystem of Science: A Contextual Perspective on the Many Roles of Scientists. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 707404. Project website.
2016-2018. Visiting Scholarship – Henk Moed. Funded by Universidad de Granada.
2017-2019 Connecting nuances of foreign status, professional networks and higher education. Funded by the US National Science Foundation. Details
2016 Evaluación del impacto científico de las redes cooperativas de investigacion en biomedicina financiadas por el ISCIII (RETICS y CIBER). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Details
2015 BiPublishers – Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers. Sponsored by EC3Metrics SL. Details
2014 Viability of co-downloading data analysis for mapping interdisciplinary research at institutional level. Sponsored by the Elsevier Bibliometric Programme. Details
2012-2014 Evaluación de editoriales y libros científicos españoles en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales a través de análisis de citas y difusión en bibliotecas (2000-2008). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Details
2009 Parametrización de los indicadores de citación a nivel nacional de acuerdo con las áreas ANEP. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Details

2017 Public engagement of PBL through social media. Commissioned by Ad Prins. Budget: 1,800 €
2016 Indicators for open data based on DataCite. Commissioned by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies-CWTS (Leiden University), European Commission. Budget: 5,000 €

Bio in English

Bio en español

If you’d like to get in touch with me feel free to email me at elrobinster@gmail.com. Check my latest updates to see what I am up to. I am also on Twitter, Google Scholar, ORCID, Publons or SlideShare.

Connecting nuances of foreign status, professional networks and higher education

BiPublishers – Bibliometric Indicators for Publishers

Evaluación del impacto científico de las redes cooperativas de investigacion en biomedicina financiadas por el ISCIII (RETICS y CIBER)

Viability of co-downloading data analysis for mapping interdisciplinary research at institutional level

Evaluación de editoriales y libros científicos españoles en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales a través de análisis de citas y difusión en bibliotecas (2000-2008)

Parametrización de los indicadores de citación a nivel nacional de acuerdo con las áreas ANEP