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Biography

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia is a researcher in the field of bibliometrics and research evaluation. He works as a Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Information and Media department at the University of Granada (Spain). He is the scientific director of the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS) and head of the EC3 Research Group (Quantitative Studies on Scientific Communication).

He previously worked at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics, TU Delft (Netherlands), the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology (United States) and at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) in Spain. He is member of the Steering Committee of the European Summer School for Scientometrics and Associate Editor of the journal Scientometrics as well as member of the Editorial Board of Quantitative Science Studies and Research Evaluation. He has published over 60 articles and book chapters in the field of bibliometrics and research evaluation, including in elite journals like Nature, Science, eLife or Plos One.

Activities

Employment (6)

Universidad de Granada: Granada, Andalucía, ES

2021-02-01 to present | Ramón y Cajal Fellow (Information and Media department)
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TU Delft: Delft, NL

2019-01-15 to 2021-01-14 | Marie Curie Fellow (Applied Mathematics)
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Universitat Politècnica de València: Valencia, Valenciana, ES

2018-07-01 to 2019-01-14 | Juan de la Cierva Incorporación (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV))
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Georgia Institute of Technology: Atlanta, Georgia, US

2017-01 to 2018-05-31 | Postdoctoral fellow
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Universitat Politècnica de València: Valencia, Valenciana, ES

2015-11-09 to 2017-08-31 | Posdoctoral Researcher (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV))
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Universidad de Granada: Granada, Andalucía, ES

2010-10-07 to 2014-10-06 | PhD Fellow - Lecturer (Library and Information Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Universidad de Granada: Granada, Andalucía, ES

2010-10-07 to 2014-07-14 | Phd in Social Sciences (Library and Information Science)
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Universidad de Granada: Spain, ES

2009 to 2010 | MsC on Scientific Information (Library and Information Sciences)
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Universidad de Granada: Spain, ES

2004-09 to 2009-07 | Bachelor (Library and Information Sciences)
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Funding (4)

Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND

2019-01 to 2021-01 | Contract
European Commission (Delft, NL)
GRANT_NUMBER: 707404
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Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación

2018-07 to 2019-01 | Contract
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Valencia, ES)
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Juan de la Cierva-Formación

2015-11 to 2017-07 | Contract
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Valencia, ES)
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Formación de Profesorado Universitario

2010-10 to 2014-10 | Contract
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Granada, ES)
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Works (50 of 90)

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The Scholarly Age—Beyond the Academic Age Using Techno-Scientific, Knowledge Appropriation and Mentoring Outputs

2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Julián D. Cortés; Nicolás Robinson-García; Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez; María Catalina Ramírez-Cajiao
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La bibliometría forense y Los Hombres de Paco

Anuario ThinkEPI
2024-04-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolás Robinson-García
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Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus

Quantitative Science Studies
2024-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez; Rodrigo Costas; Nicolás Robinson-García; Vincent Larivière
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Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? Discussing new analytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists

2024-02-06 | Book chapter
Contributors: Rodrigo Costas; Carmen Corona-Sobrino; Nicolás Robinson-García
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WikiGenDex: Un nuevo algoritmo de identificación de género basado en fuentes abiertas

Infonomy
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Elvira González-Salmón; Nicolás Robinson-García
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Altmetrics for the identification of scientific controversies: The case of NeuroGenderings and neurosexism

El Profesional de la información
2023-11-28 | Journal article
Contributors: María Aguilar-Soto; Nicolás Robinson-García; Benjamín Vargas-Quesada
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Valuation regimes in academia: Researchers’ attitudes towards their diversity of activities and academic performance

Research Evaluation
2023-10-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Rodrigo Costas; Gabriela F Nane; Thed N van Leeuwen
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Bibliometric denialism

Scientometrics
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Torres-Salinas; Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia
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Acceso Abierto: utopías, realidades y cuentas pendientes

Anuario ThinkEPI
2023-06-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolás Robinson-García; Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras
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The bibliometric journey towards technological and social change: A review of current challenges and issues

El Profesional de la información
2023-04-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Torres-Salinas; Nicolás Robinson-García; Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras
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COVID-19 and the scientific publishing system: growth, open access and scientific fields

Scientometrics
2023-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Gabriela F. Nane; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; François van Schalkwyk; Daniel Torres-Salinas
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Contra el pensamiento mágico de la bibliometría

Anuario ThinkEPI
2022-09-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolás Robinson-García
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A value creation model from science-society interconnections: Archetypal analysis combining publications, survey and altmetric data

PLOS ONE
2022-06-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Irene Ramos-Vielba; Lutz Bornmann; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Richard Woolley
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Could ORCID play a key role in meta-research? discussing new analytical possibilities to study the dynamics of science and scientists

2022-05-19 | Preprint
Contributors: Rodrigo Costas; Carmen Corona; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia
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A Comprehensive Dataset of the Spanish Research Output and Its Associated Social Media and Altmetric Mentions (2016–2020)

Data
2022-05-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Daniel Torres-Salinas
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Coverage and distribution of altmetric mentions in Spain: a cross-country comparison in 22 research fields

El Profesional de la información
2022-04-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Torres-Salinas; Nicolás Robinson-García; Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado
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Researchers’ institutional mobility: bibliometric evidence on academic inbreeding and internationalization

Science and Public Policy
2022-02-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Vít Macháček; Martin Srholec; Márcia R Ferreira; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Rodrigo Costas
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An empirical review of the different variants of the probabilistic affinity index as applied to scientific collaboration

Scientometrics
2021 | Journal article
Contributors: Chinchilla-Rodriguez, Zaida; Bu, Yi; Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.
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COVID-19 and the scientific publishing system: Growth, open access and scientific fields

2021-12-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Tina Nane; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Francois van Schalkwyk; Daniel Torres-Salinas
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Identifying and characterizing social media communities: a socio-semantic network approach to altmetrics

Scientometrics
2021-11-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado; Daniel Torres-Salinas; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia
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Valuation regimes in academia: Researchers’ attitudes towards their diversity of activities and academic performance

2021-11-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Rodrigo Costas; Tina Nane; Thed N van Leeuwen
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Analyzing scientific mobility and collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa

Quantitative Science Studies
2021-10-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Jamal El-Ouahi; Nicolas Robinson-García; Rodrigo Costas
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Exploring the relevance of ORCID as a source of study of data sharing activities at the individual-level: a methodological discussion

Scientometrics
2021-08-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Sixto-Costoya Andrea; Robinson-Garcia Nicolas; Leeuwen van Thed; Costas Rodrigo
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A value creation model from science-society interconnections: Archetypal analysis combining publications, survey and altmetric data

2021-05-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Irene Ramos-Vielba; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Richard Woolley
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Open Access uptake by universities worldwide

PeerJ
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas; Costas, Rodrigo; van Leeuwen, Thed N.
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Measuring Open Access Uptake: Data Sources, Expectations, and Misconceptions

Scholarly Assessment Reports
2020-11-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Thed N. Van Leeuwen; Daniel Torres-Salinas
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Task specialization across research careers

eLife
2020-10-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Rodrigo Costas; Cassidy R Sugimoto; Vincent Larivière; Gabriela F Nane
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Open Access and Altmetrics in the pandemic age: Forescast analysis on COVID-19 literature

2020-04-26 | Other
Contributors: Daniel Torres-Salinas; Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Pedro A. Castillo-Valdivieso
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Disentangling gold open access

Springer Handbooks
2019 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85075910871

Contributors: Torres-Salinas, D.; Robinson-García, N.; Moed, H.F.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

Identifying communities of interest in social media: Microbiology as a case study

PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao; Torres-Salinas, Daniel; Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
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Indicators of Open Access for universities

17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85073879690

Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, N.; Costas, R.; Van Leeuwen, T.N.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

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

PROCEEDINGS OF ISSI 2011: THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SCIENTOMETRICS AND INFORMETRICS, VOLS 1 AND 2
2019 | Journal article
Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas; Woolley, Richard; Costas, Rodrigo
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Reviewing, indicating, and counting books for modern research evaluation systems

Springer Handbooks
2019 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85075918558

Contributors: Zuccala, A.; Robinson-García, N.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

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

Journal of Informetrics
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85057582233

Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, N.; Sugimoto, C.R.; Murray, D.; Yegros-Yegros, A.; Larivière, V.; Costas, R.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

Towards a multidimensional classification of social media users around science on Twitter

17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85073876852

Contributors: Díaz-Faes, A.A.; Robinson-García, N.; Bowman, T.D.; Costas, R.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

Towards a multidimensional valuation model of scientists

17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85073872859

Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, N.; Costas, R.; Van Leeuwen, T.N.; Nane, T.
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Mining university rankings: Publication output and citation impact as their basis

Research Evaluation
2019-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Daniel Torres-Salinas; Enrique Herrera-Viedma; Domingo Docampo
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Mapping social media attention in Microbiology: identifying main topics and actors

FEMS Microbiology Letters
2019-04-01 | Journal article
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Methodological considerations on the use of the normalized impact in the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu programmes,Consideraciones metodológicas sobre uso del impacto normalizado en convocatorias Severo Ochoa y María de Maeztu

Profesional de la Informacion
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85044997651

Contributors: Torres-Salinas, D.; Robinson-García, N.; Herrera-Viedma, E.; Jiménez-Contreras, E.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

The insoluble problems of books: what does Altmetric.com have to offer?

Aslib Journal of Information Management
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85055990012

Contributors: Torres-Salinas, D.; Gorraiz, J.; Robinson-Garcia, N.
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Travel bans and scientific mobility: utility of asymmetry and affinity indexes to inform science policy

Scientometrics
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85049782869

Contributors: Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z.; Bu, Y.; Robinson-García, N.; Costas, R.; Sugimoto, C.R.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

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

Science and Public Policy
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85055972582

Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, N.; van Leeuwen, T.N.; Ràfols, I.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

‘Getting out of the closet’: scientific authorship of literary fiction and knowledge transfer

Journal of Technology Transfer
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048830865

Contributors: Azagra-Caro, J.M.; Fernández-Mesa, A.; Robinson-García, N.
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¿Tiene sentido limitar la coautoría científica? No existe inflación de autores en Ciencias Sociales y Educación en España

Revista Española de Documentación Científica
2018-06-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia; Carlos B. Amat
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Scientific mobility indicators in practice: International mobility profiles at the country level

El Profesional de la Información
2018-06-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolás Robinson-García; Cassidy R. Sugimoto; Dakota Murray; Alfredo Yegros-Yegros; Vincent Larivière; Rodrigo Costas
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Perspectiva y retos de los profesionales de la evaluación científica y la bibliometría

El Profesional de la Información
2018-06-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolás Robinson-García; Rafael Repiso; Daniel Torres-Salinas
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Publons, aprovechando el poder de las revisiones por pares

Anuario ThinkEPI
2018-04-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Rafael Repiso; Nicolás Robinson-García
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DataCite as a novel bibliometric source: Coverage, strengths and limitations

Journal of Informetrics
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85028313838

Contributors: Robinson-Garcia, N.; Mongeon, P.; Jeng, W.; Costas, R.
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Incorporating data sharing to the reward system of science: Linking DataCite records to authors in the Web of Science

Aslib Journal of Information Management
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85032331138

Contributors: Mongeon, P.; Robinson-Garcia, N.; Jeng, W.; Costas, R.
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Nicolas Robinson-Garcia via Scopus - Elsevier

Networks of international collaboration and mobility: A comparative study

ISSI 2017 - 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, Conference Proceedings
2017 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85036628848

Contributors: Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Z.; Miao, L.; Murray, D.; Robinson-García, N.; Costas, R.; Sugimoto, C.R.
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Peer review (168 reviews for 32 publications/grants)

Review activity for Agronomy for sustainable development. (2)
Review activity for Aslib journal of information management. (1)
Review activity for Comunicar (1)
Review activity for El Profesional de la información. (3)
Review activity for eLife (3)
Review activity for Environmental impact assessment review. (1)
Review activity for Frontiers in digital humanities. (1)
Review activity for Frontiers in research metrics and analytics. (7)
Review activity for Gaceta sanitaria. (1)
Review activity for Gender, place and culture. (2)
Review activity for Health information and libraries journal. (1)
Review activity for Heliyon. (1)
Review activity for IETE technical review. (3)
Review activity for Infectious diseases of poverty. (1)
Review activity for Journal of Data and Information Science. (2)
Review activity for Journal of information science (3)
Review activity for Journal of informetrics. (18)
Review activity for Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. (12)
Review activity for Journalism practice. (1)
Review activity for Open Information Science. (1)
Review activity for PeerJ. (2)
Review activity for PloS one. (11)
Review activity for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (1)
Review activity for Proceedings. (1)
Review activity for Quantitative science studies. (7)
Review activity for Research evaluation (20)
Review activity for Resources, conservation and recycling. (1)
Review activity for Revista española de documentación científica (21)
Review activity for Science and public policy (2)
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Review activity for Studies in higher education. (2)