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.
Current position
- 2019- . Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral researcher, Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, TU Delft (Netherlands)
- 2016- . Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University
Experience
- 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)
Education
- 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)
Grants and awards
- 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.
Social outreach
Funded projects
- 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
Contract research
- 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 €
Evaluación del impacto científico de las redes cooperativas de investigacion en biomedicina financiadas por el ISCIII (RETICS y CIBER)
