Outreach
Opinion pieces and other non-academic outputs as well as news stories in which either me or my work have been mentioned.
Opinion pieces and comments
Excellent research and societal impact in the 2021 UK REF | OSIRIS Blog, Oct 28, 2024
La bibliometría forense y Los Hombres de Paco | ThinkEPI, Mar, 2024
WikiGenDex: Un nuevo algoritmo de identificación de género basado en fuentes abiertas | Infonomy, 2(1), e24010
Acceso Abierto: utopías, realidades y cuentas pendientes | ThinkEPI, Jun, 2023
Contra el pensamiento mágico de la bibliometría | ThinkEPI, 2022.
Attention for science in step with policy? The case of school closures during COVID-19 | Leiden Madtrics, 2021
It’s time to recognise the diversity of research careers | ResearchProfessional News, 2021
Is there a standard research career? The unintended consequences of task specialisation in science | LSE Impact Blog, February 1, 2021
The unintended consequences of task specialization in research careers | Leiden Madtrics, Nov, 23, 2020
Where do scholars move? Measuring the mobility of researchers across academic institutions | Leiden Madtrics, Sept 3, 2020.
An interview with Juan Gorraiz | The Bibliomagician, March 25, 2020
Results from the 2019 Responsible Metrics State of the Art Survey | The Bibliomagician, Nov 12, 2019
Indicators of open access publishing in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019 | CWTS Blog, May 15, 2019.
La financiación de las universidades británicas a examen: ¿Excelencia científica o relevancia social? | Nada es Gratis, Mar 9, 2018.
Los resultados del REF2014 de Reino Unido marcan el camino a seguir en la evaluación científica | Blok de BiD, Dec 12, 2017.
The global scientific brain: Policy implications of barriers to scientific mobility | CWTS Blog, Oct 5, 2017.
The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact | LSE Impact Blog, July, 19, 2017.
How to make altmetrics useful in societal impact assessments: shifting from citation to interaction approaches | LSE Impact Blog, March, 23, 2017.
Los nuevos índices de citas de Thomson Reuters ofrecen oportunidades para mejorar los rankings de universidades | Anuario ThinkEPI, 2014, 9, 207-210.
Featured elsewhere
ORCID Celebrates Open Access Week with Release of Public Data File. ORCID, October 24, 2023
How critics say a computer scientist in Spain artificially boosted his Google Scholar metrics. Retraction Watch, March 25, 2021
Scientists at odds on Utrecht University reforms to hiring and promotion criteria. Nature Index, August 9, 2021.
You’ve tweeted about your hot new paper! Don’t expect many clicks. Science, February 12, 2021.
Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat? Science May 14, 2020.
Science has more impact when researchers travel, collaborate. United Press International. Nov 9, 2017
P09 - #Evaluando en la I Reunión de Servicios de Evaluación Científica en los Vicerrectorados de Investigación Radiolab UGR. Oct 27, 2017
Las fronteras, una amenaza para la producción e impacto científico internacional, según un estudio. Europa Press. Oct 6, 2017
La fuite des cerveaux est bonne pour la recherche. Le Point Sciences. Oct 6, 2017.
Audio fil du vendredi 6 octubre 2017. Étude: Mobilité des chercheurs menacée par Trump et le Brexit.. L’Heure de point. Oct 6, 2017.
Researchers who change country produce more influential work. The Economist, Oct 4, 2017.
Migrating researchers are cited the most. Science, Oct 4, 2017.
Editorial: Science without walls is good for all. Nature, 2017, 550, 7-8.
Fresh data supports freedom of movement for scientists. Times Higher Education Magazine, Oct 4, 2017.
Tweets on academic papers ‘mechanical and devoid of original thought’. Times Higher Education Magazine, Sept 2, 2017.
The “unbearable emptiness” of Science in Twitter? Discover Magazine, Aug 27, 2017.
Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers. Nature, Feb 24, 2014.
Google Scholar wins raves - But can it be trusted? Science, 2014, 343(6166), 14.
Radioscopio en revisión El Radioscopio. Canal Sur Radio, Dec 28, 2013
Las grandes revistas científicas y los métodos de medición, cada vez más cuestionados A hombros de gigantes. Radio Nacional de España, Dec 16, 2013.
Así lograron engañar a Google varios científicos españoles. ABC, Dec 14, 2013.