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20122026
most citedBig Pharma, little science? A bibliometric perspective on big pharma's R&D decline

134 citations

18 papers

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

Privacy and Safety Experiences and Concerns of U.S. Women Using Generative AI for Seeking Sexual and Reproductive Health Information

Ina Kaleva, Xiao Zhan, Ruba Abu-Salma +1

The rapid adoption of generative AI (GenAI) chatbots has reshaped access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information, particularly following the overturning of Roe v. Wade,…

cs.MA2026

Decentralized Value Systems Agreements

Arturo Hernandez-Sanchez, Natalia Criado, Stella Heras +2

One of the biggest challenges of value-based decision-making is dealing with the subjective nature of values. The relative importance of a value for a particular decision varies be…

cs.HC2026★ 4 cited

Privacy in Human-AI Romantic Relationships: Concerns, Boundaries, and Agency

Rongjun Ma, Shijing He, Jose Luis Martin-Navarro +2

An increasing number of LLM-based applications are being developed to facilitate romantic relationships with AI partners, yet the safety and privacy risks in these partnerships rem…

cs.CL2025

Towards Safer Chatbots: Automated Policy Compliance Evaluation of Custom GPTs

David Rodriguez, William Seymour, Jose M. Del Alamo +1

User-configured chatbots built on top of large language models are increasingly available through centralized marketplaces such as OpenAI's GPT Store. While these platforms enforce…

cs.DL2019★ 3 cited

Making sense of global collaboration dynamics: Developing a methodological framework to study (dis)similarities between country disciplinary profiles and choice of collaboration partners

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Richard Woolley, Rodrigo Costas

This paper presents a novel methodological framework by which the effects of globalization on international collaboration can be studied and understood. Using the cosine similarity…

cs.DL2019★ 53 cited

Mining university rankings: Publication output and citation impact as their basis

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Enrique Herrera-Viedma +1

World University rankings have become well-established tools that students, university managers and policy makers read and use. Each ranking claims to have a unique methodology cap…

cs.DL2019★ 23 cited

Mapping social media attention in Microbiology: Identifying main topics and actors

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Daniel Torres-Salinas

This paper aims to map and identify topics of interest within the field of Microbiology and identify the main sources driving such attention. We combine data from Web of Science an…

cs.DL2018★ 127 cited

The many faces of mobility: Using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Dakota Murray +3

This paper presents a methodological framework for developing scientific mobility indicators based on bibliometric data. We identify nearly 16 million individual authors from publi…

cs.DL2018★ 14 cited

'Getting out of the closet': Scientific authorship of literary fiction and knowledge transfer

Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Anabel Fernández-Mesa, Nicolás Robinson-García

Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. In this c…

cs.DL2017★ 2 cited

Filling the citation gap: Measuring the multidimensional impact of the academic book at institutional level with PlumX

Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Juan Gorraiz

More than five years after their emergence, altmetrics are still seen as a promise to complement traditional citation-based indicators. However, no study has focused on their poten…

cs.DL2017★ 34 cited

DataCite as a novel bibliometric source: Coverage, strengths and limitations

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Philippe Mongeon, Wei Jeng +1

This paper explores the characteristics of DataCite to determine its possibilities and potential as a new bibliometric data source to analyze the scholarly production of open data.…

cs.DL2017★ 32 cited

Making visible the invisible through the analysis of acknowledgements in the humanities

Adrian A. Diaz-Faes, Maria Bordons

Purpose: Science is subject to a normative structure that includes how the contributions and interactions between scientists are rewarded. Authorship and citations have been the ke…

cs.DL2017★ 49 cited

Improving fitness: Mapping research priorities against societal needs on obesity

Lorenzo Cassi, Agénor Lahatte, Ismael Rafols +2

Science policy is increasingly shifting towards an emphasis in societal problems or grand challenges. As a result, new evaluative tools are needed to help assess not only the knowl…

cs.DL2016★ 87 cited

Using almetrics for contextualised mapping of societal impact: From hits to networks

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Thed N. van Leeuwen, Ismael Rafols

In this article, we develop a method that uses altmetric data to analyse researchers' interactions, as a way of mapping the contexts of potential societal impact. In the face of an…

cs.DL2016

Tracking the performance of an R&D programme in the Biomedical Sciences

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras

This paper aims at offering an evaluation framework of an Research and Development programme in the Biomedical Sciences. It showcases the Spanish Biomedical Research Networking Cen…

cs.DL2013★ 134 cited

Big Pharma, little science? A bibliometric perspective on big pharma's R&D decline

Ismael Rafols, Michael M. Hopkins, Jarno Hoekman +4

There is a widespread perception that pharmaceutical R&D is facing a productivity crisis characterised by stagnation in the numbers of new drug approvals in the face of increasing…

cs.DL2013★ 68 cited

Strategic Intelligence on Emerging Technologies: Scientometric Overlay Mapping

Daniele Rotolo, Ismael Rafols, Michael Hopkins +1

This paper examines the use of scientometric overlay mapping as a tool of 'strategic intelligence' to aid the governance of emerging technologies. We develop an integrative synthes…

physics.soc-ph2012★ 2 cited

Patent Overlay Mapping: Visualizing Technological Distance

Luciano Kay, Nils Newman, Jan Youtie +2

This paper presents a new global patent map that represents all technological categories, and a method to locate patent data of individual organizations and technological fields on…