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Esteban Romero-Frías

Universidad de Granada, Economía Financiera y Contabilidad, Faculty Member

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Esteban Romero-Frías (http://estebanromero.com; @polisea) is assistant professor at the Department of Finance and Accounting at the University of Granada. He carries out research in two main fields: (1) the application of Webometric techniques to business, and (2) the impact of Web 2.0 in higher education. Since 2007, he uses blogs, wikis and social networks in his courses. He coordinated six innovative learning projects based on Web 2.0 tools at the University of Granada. Among them, he worked in the design of Personal Learning Environments and coordinates Descuadrando.com, the open encyclopedia on business, where gamification techniques are explored.

He visited different research centers in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom,The Netherlands and France. In 2011 he visited the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire (CRI) at Université Paris Descartes in Paris, a center that works in implementing games in teaching and research.
Address: Departamento de Economía Financiera y Contabilidad
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Universidad de Granada
Campus Universitario de Cartuja, s/n
C.P. 18071 Granada (España)

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Universidad de Málaga

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Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

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University of Ostrava

Yadira Palenzuela Fundora

Universidad de Chile

Dolores Ruiz-Berdún

Universidad de Alcala

Robert González García

Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo

Mariana Quiroga Mendiola

National Institute of de Agricultural Technology (INTA)

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Informe sobre la situación del sector de la artesanía en España durante la emergencia sanitaria del covid-19

El estado de alarma por COVID-19 está afectando a todos los sectores y actividades económicas. El... more El estado de alarma por COVID-19 está afectando a todos los sectores y actividades económicas. El sector artesanal no ha sido menos, si bien carecemos de datos concretos que hagan un retrato de la situación vivida durante el confinamiento de los primeros meses de la pandemia en España. Por este motivo, la Universidad de Granada, con la colaboración del Centro Albayzín, Centro de Referencia Nacional de Artesanía, ha realizado una encuesta online, durante los meses de marzo a mayo de 2020, en el marco del proyecto FEDER MakerArt, con el fin de visualizar y conocer el estado real de dicha situación. En este informe se exponen los resultados obtenidos.

Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades Digitales Aplicadas. Casos De Estudio Y Perspectivas Críticas

La presente obra está compuesta por veinticinco capítulos con aportaciones que abordan una amplia... more La presente obra está compuesta por veinticinco capítulos con aportaciones que abordan una amplia variedad de temas en torno a un hilo común: la temática digital como fondo o las metodologías digitales como forma. Un conjunto de aproximaciones que, por la transversalidad de lo digital, se convierten en una fuente de inspiración para desarrollar nuevos análisis que nos permitan entender mejor el mundo en que vivimos. Capítulos que abordan temas de actualidad como el feminismo, la sexualidad, el control social, los problemas geopolíticos, los nuevos derechos y las amenazas digitales, la economía, el turismo, la educación en múltiples formas, museos, archivos, proyectos de digitalización, estudios literarios, arte.

Identidad digital y reputación online para científicos

El investigador / IP debe fomentar su identidad digital científica en lugar de la personal. Tener... more El investigador / IP debe fomentar su identidad digital científica en lugar de la personal. Tener cuidado con aquello que se publica en Internet y con las amistades que se aceptan y a qué y a quienes se siguen en las redes sociales ej: que no sean pacientes, páginas políticas conflictivas, etc. Tener presente la ética digital en este sentido. Pon tu nombre y apellidos en Internet y evalúa los resultados...

Personal Learning Environments Acceptance Model: The Role of Need for Cognition, e-Learning Satisfaction and Students. Perceptions

J. Educ. Technol. Soc., 2015

As long as students use Web 2.0 tools extensively for social purposes, there is an opportunity to... more As long as students use Web 2.0 tools extensively for social purposes, there is an opportunity to improve students' engagement in Higher Education by using these tools for academic purposes under a Personal Learning Environment approach (PLE 2.0). The success of these attempts depends upon the reactions and acceptance of users towards e-learning using Web 2.0. This paper aims to analyse the factors (e-learning satisfaction and students’ perceptions, among others) that determine the intention of use of a PLE 2.0 initiative. The study in addition analyses the moderating role of the Need for Cognition (NFC) in the model. The results indicate that the model proposed has a high explanatory power of the intention to use a PLE 2.0 and gives support to the moderating role of NFC. The study discusses how this analysis can help to improve course designs by teachers.

Humanidades Digitales en Iberoamérica: desafíos institucionales para su desarrollo y consolidación

En las universidades iberoamericanas las Humanidades Digitales están construyendo un campo emerge... more En las universidades iberoamericanas las Humanidades Digitales están construyendo un campo emergente con diversas iniciativas a nivel institucional. Las instituciones de educación superior poseen características diversas que las distinguen por sus recursos humanos y financieros, sus infraestructuras físicas, tecnológicas y administrativas, sus modelos educativos y sus programas de estudio. Esta heterogeneidad genera condiciones diversas para la consolidación del campo. Sin embargo, aunque los contextos varíen, nos encontramos con elementos comunes en esas estructuras institucionales que obstaculizan el desarrollo de las Humanidades Digitales y, a la vez, pliegues o espacios liminales que posibilitan su avance. Este panel tiene el propósito de a) presentar un marco de referencia general sobre las HD en Iberoamérica, b) realizar un análisis de los desafíos como campo y un balance de los factores determinantes para el avance de las HD en español, c) identificar las estrategias que han ...

The Impact of Sharing Economy in Heritage Neighborhoods in Granada

Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption, 2020

The objective of this chapter is to provide reliable information from online platforms that quant... more The objective of this chapter is to provide reliable information from online platforms that quantifies the impact of tourist accommodation in Granada in relation to commercial activities, hotels, and residential homes. To do so, the authors take into consideration economic and population variables. Particularly, they focus on offering evidence on the tourist pressure in the most touristic neighborhoods of the city, mainly Albaicín-Sacromonte, Centro 1, and Realejo. This type of research has been widely demanded by residents, local government, and stakeholders in general in order to take action on this field.

Independent publishers and social networks in the 21st century: the balance of power in the transatlantic Spanish-language book market

Online Information Review, 2020

PurposeThe present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-lang... more PurposeThe present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-language, independent publishing market. The main purposes are to determine whether certain Latin American Spanish-language independent publishers function as gatekeepers of world literature and to analyze the geopolitical structure of this global market, addressing both the Europe-America dialectic and neocolonial practices.Design/methodology/approachAfter selecting the sample of publishers, the authors conducted a search for their Twitter profiles and located 131; they then downloaded data from the corresponding Twitter APIs. Finally, they applied social network analysis to study the presence of and interaction between the sample of independent publishers on this social media.FindingsThe results provide data-based evidence supporting the hypothesis of some literary critics who suggest that in Latin America, certain publishers act as gatekeepers to the mainstream book market. Therefore, Twi...

Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks

PLOS ONE, 2020

This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been... more This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been adapted to this context in order to generate Pathfinder networks (PFNET) that highlight the most relevant scientific journals and categories, and their interactions in order to find out how scientific literature is consumed through this open encyclopaedia. In addition to this, their obsolescence has been studied through Price index. A total of 1 433 457 references available at Altmetric.com have been initially taken into account. After pre-processing and linking them to the data from Elsevier's CiteScore Metrics the sample was reduced to 847 512 references made by 193 802 Wikipedia articles to 598 746 scientific articles belonging to 14 149 journals indexed in Scopus. As highlighted results we found a significative presence of "Medicine" and "Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology" papers and that the most important journals are multidisciplinary in nature, suggesting also that high-impact factor journals were more likely to be cited. Furthermore, only 13.44% of Wikipedia citations are to Open Access journals.

Mapping the backbone of the Humanities through the eyes of Wikipedia

Journal of Informetrics, 2019

The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations t... more The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations to Wikipedia article references and, subsequently, to map these relationships between scientific papers. This theory, originally applied to scientific literature, will be transferred to the digital environment of collective knowledge generation. To this end, a dataset containing Wikipedia references collected from Altmetric and Scopus' Journal Metrics journals has been used. The articles have been categorized according to the disciplines and specialties established in the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC). They have also been grouped by journal of publication. A set of articles in the Humanities, comprising 25 555 Wikipedia articles with 41 655 references to 32 245 resources, has been selected. Finally, a descriptive statistical study has been conducted and co-citations have been mapped using networks and indicators of degree and betweenness centrality.

Andalabs: conectando la innovación ciudadana en Andalucía

revista PH, 2017

La Red de Laboratorios Ciudadanos de Andalucía nace en mayo de 2017 de la mano de Medialab UGR, p... more La Red de Laboratorios Ciudadanos de Andalucía nace en mayo de 2017 de la mano de Medialab UGR, perteneciente a la Universidad de Granada, con la intención de conectar la innovación ciudadana que se desarrolla en Andalucía en sus diversas formas. AndaLabs centra su atención en la pluralidad de espacios físicos y/o digitales, híbridos, que sirven de cauce a la innovación social y ciudadana, y en la integración del conocimiento plural distribuido en la sociedad, otorgando el papel protagonista a la ciudadanía.

Policy labs in Europe: political innovation, structure and content analysis on Twitter

El Profesional de la Información, 2018

and Society of the UGR. His research has focused mainly on the application of webmetric technique... more and Society of the UGR. His research has focused mainly on the application of webmetric techniques to the field of business and politics, as well as the use of digital technologies in education. He is working on digital culture, digital scholarship and digital humanities and social sciences. http://medialab.ugr.es http://estebanromero.com

Social labs in universities: Innovation and impact in medialab UGR

Comunicar, 2017

Social laboratories, defined as experimental spaces for co-creation, have currently become the ma... more Social laboratories, defined as experimental spaces for co-creation, have currently become the main centres of innovation. Medialabs are experimental laboratories of technologies and communication media which have co-evolved along with the digital society into becoming mediation laboratories of citizen experimentation, observing a confluence of both models. In the last years, these centres have expanded within the higher education context, generating new forms of innovation and posing the issue on how to measure the impact of such open spaces. This paper analyzes the origin and development of social laboratories in Spain. It first reviews their historical development since its antecedents in the 19th Century until the most recent initiatives. It focuses specifically on initiatives launched within the university context, highlighting their role as motors of innovation. Then, it presents the case of Medialab UGR, a co-creation and digital culture centre of social collaboration framed ...

What Drives Students' Loyalty-Formation in Social Media Learning Within a Personal Learning Environment Approach? The Moderating Role of Need for Cognition

Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016

Our study analyzes an educational experience based on the integrated use of social media within a... more Our study analyzes an educational experience based on the integrated use of social media within a higher education course under a personal learning environment approach and investigates the factors that determine students' loyalty to social media learning. We examined the moderating role of need for cognition (NFC) in students' formation of attitudes, satisfaction, and loyalty toward this learning experience. The results indicate that NFC has an influence on these variables, significantly moderating how loyalty toward social media learning is formed. For high-NFC students, satisfaction with the learning experience is the most important variable to explain loyalty; whereas for low-NFC students, attitudes have a stronger effect. Different strategies are suggested, according to the learners' NFC levels, for increasing the use of social media in personal learning environments. Practical implications for improving the integration of such informal resources into formal educati...

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: técnicas, herramientas y experiencias de e-Research e investigación en colaboración

Este libro y cada uno de los capítulos que contiene, así como las imágenes incluidas, si no se in... more Este libro y cada uno de los capítulos que contiene, así como las imágenes incluidas, si no se indica lo contrario, se encuentran bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-No Comercial-Sin Derivadas 3.0 Unported. Puede ver una copia de esta licencia en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-La edición del presente libro ha sido posible gracias a la financiación recibida por el proyecto de I+D-Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: casos, gestión y modelos de negocio‖ 1 concedido por el Campus de Excelencia Internacional BioTic Granada. Dicho proyecto está vinculado a las actividades de GrinUGR-Colaboratorio sobre culturas digitales en ciencias sociales y humanidades 2. Los editores del libro agradecemos a los autores y prologuistas su confianza y buen hacer en la consecución de un volumen que pretende dar difusión a las investigaciones que se están realizando en el campo de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales a ambos lados del Atlántico, reflejando así la pluralidad de perspectivas que hoy en día existen en la comunidad académica hispana.

Web search volume as a predictor of academic fame: An exploration of Google trends

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2013

Post-print for research purposes.

Exploring Web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analysis: a multi-industry case

Scientometrics, 2012

The study explored the feasibility of using Web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analys... more The study explored the feasibility of using Web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analysis and tested the feasibility in a multi-industry environment. The keyword is the organization's name, in this case the company name. American companies from five industries were included in the study. The study found that the Web visibility of a company as measured by the number of Webpages on which the company name appears correlates with the company's business measures (revenue, profits, and assets). The correlation coefficients are similar to that between the inlink counts and the business measures. This suggests that the keyword count (searched by the company name) could replace inlink count as an alternative indicator of some commonly used business measures. The co-word (the co-occurrence of the names of two companies on Webpages) count was used as a measure of the relatedness of the two companies. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis was applied to the co-word matrices and generated MDS maps that showed relationships among companies in a multi-industry context. Keyword data were collected from three different types of Websites (general Websites, blog sites, and Web news sites) and results were compared. The study found blog sites to be the better source to collect data for this type of study. The comparison of MDS maps generated from co-link data and the blog co-word data showed that the co-word analysis is as effective as co-link analysis in mapping business relationships. The value of the study is not limited to the business sector as the co-word method could be applied to analysing relationships among other types of organizations.

El empleo de la Webmetría para el análisis de los indicadores de desempeño y posición financiera de la empresa: un análisis exploratorio en diversos sectores económicos de los Estados Unidos

Innovar, 2015

El desarrollo de Internet a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas ha dado lugar a una nueva discipl... more El desarrollo de Internet a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas ha dado lugar a una nueva disciplina que permite estudiar la Web desde un punto de vista cuantitativo: la webmetría. La aplicación de técnicas webmétricas al estudio de empresas apunta a la posible existencia de relaciones entre el número de enlaces que recibe un sitio web corporativo y determinadas variables económico-financieras. La incipiente evidencia encontrada se limita, en todo caso, a empresas pertenecientes a sectores tecnológicos que, por su propia naturaleza, cuentan con una fuerte presencia en la Red. El presente trabajo, de carácter exploratorio, extiende el análisis a diversos sectores económicos de los Estados Unidos, confirmando la existencia de una relación significativa entre las variables expuestas. Esto abre nuevas posibilidades de investigación en el ámbito empresarial a partir del empleo de la información extraída de la estructura de enlaces de la Web.

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: una visión introductoria

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales

A view on Personal Learning Environments through approaches to learning

In the past years the impact of social media in students in Higher Education has been remarkably ... more In the past years the impact of social media in students in Higher Education has been remarkably significant (Pew Research Center, 2010; Tapscott, 2009). In order to exploit the potential benefits of these tools on education, we carried out different experiments using wikis and private social networks. Although the results were positive, we decided to move towards a more open approach using tools not directly linked to educational purposes. This paper reports on an experience in the use of Personal Learning Environments (PLE) to develop competences needed by students for lifelong learning. PLE is a concept that refers to the set of tools, devices, connections and networks that we used to learn. Nowadays building a digital PLE is key to achieve the goals set by the European Union. The main objective of the paper is to analyse the influence of the approaches to learning of students in the reported effects of the PLE as well as in relevant aspects of the learning process. 245 students enrolled in a course on International Accounting participated in the experience of developing their own digital PLE. Some of the activities proposed used social networks, Twitter, blogs and wikis. The data were gathered through a web based questionnaire in two steps: 1) to obtain a priori self-confidence measures regarding communication in academic tasks and web related tasks, and 2) to obtain a measure of the approaches to learning of the students and self-confidence measures. According to students' opinion, the experience was deemed as positive. In order to check the relationships between the impact of the experience and the approach to learning of students, a cluster analysis was performed. Students were classified into two groups. The cluster #1 presents lower scores on deep approach and higher scores on surface approach than students classified into cluster #2. Comparing the scores obtained in all the aspects of learning between the two groups, many differences arise. Students in the deep approach group indicated a significant higher impact in all measured aspects. Results suggest that certain a type of students, more flexible and likely to manage information in their own, is able to use PLEs more effectively to learn than those who present a more pragmatic orientation focussed on passing the course.

Informe sobre la situación del sector de la artesanía en España durante la emergencia sanitaria del covid-19

El estado de alarma por COVID-19 está afectando a todos los sectores y actividades económicas. El... more El estado de alarma por COVID-19 está afectando a todos los sectores y actividades económicas. El sector artesanal no ha sido menos, si bien carecemos de datos concretos que hagan un retrato de la situación vivida durante el confinamiento de los primeros meses de la pandemia en España. Por este motivo, la Universidad de Granada, con la colaboración del Centro Albayzín, Centro de Referencia Nacional de Artesanía, ha realizado una encuesta online, durante los meses de marzo a mayo de 2020, en el marco del proyecto FEDER MakerArt, con el fin de visualizar y conocer el estado real de dicha situación. En este informe se exponen los resultados obtenidos.

Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades Digitales Aplicadas. Casos De Estudio Y Perspectivas Críticas

La presente obra está compuesta por veinticinco capítulos con aportaciones que abordan una amplia... more La presente obra está compuesta por veinticinco capítulos con aportaciones que abordan una amplia variedad de temas en torno a un hilo común: la temática digital como fondo o las metodologías digitales como forma. Un conjunto de aproximaciones que, por la transversalidad de lo digital, se convierten en una fuente de inspiración para desarrollar nuevos análisis que nos permitan entender mejor el mundo en que vivimos. Capítulos que abordan temas de actualidad como el feminismo, la sexualidad, el control social, los problemas geopolíticos, los nuevos derechos y las amenazas digitales, la economía, el turismo, la educación en múltiples formas, museos, archivos, proyectos de digitalización, estudios literarios, arte.

Identidad digital y reputación online para científicos

El investigador / IP debe fomentar su identidad digital científica en lugar de la personal. Tener... more El investigador / IP debe fomentar su identidad digital científica en lugar de la personal. Tener cuidado con aquello que se publica en Internet y con las amistades que se aceptan y a qué y a quienes se siguen en las redes sociales ej: que no sean pacientes, páginas políticas conflictivas, etc. Tener presente la ética digital en este sentido. Pon tu nombre y apellidos en Internet y evalúa los resultados...

Personal Learning Environments Acceptance Model: The Role of Need for Cognition, e-Learning Satisfaction and Students. Perceptions

J. Educ. Technol. Soc., 2015

As long as students use Web 2.0 tools extensively for social purposes, there is an opportunity to... more As long as students use Web 2.0 tools extensively for social purposes, there is an opportunity to improve students' engagement in Higher Education by using these tools for academic purposes under a Personal Learning Environment approach (PLE 2.0). The success of these attempts depends upon the reactions and acceptance of users towards e-learning using Web 2.0. This paper aims to analyse the factors (e-learning satisfaction and students’ perceptions, among others) that determine the intention of use of a PLE 2.0 initiative. The study in addition analyses the moderating role of the Need for Cognition (NFC) in the model. The results indicate that the model proposed has a high explanatory power of the intention to use a PLE 2.0 and gives support to the moderating role of NFC. The study discusses how this analysis can help to improve course designs by teachers.

Humanidades Digitales en Iberoamérica: desafíos institucionales para su desarrollo y consolidación

En las universidades iberoamericanas las Humanidades Digitales están construyendo un campo emerge... more En las universidades iberoamericanas las Humanidades Digitales están construyendo un campo emergente con diversas iniciativas a nivel institucional. Las instituciones de educación superior poseen características diversas que las distinguen por sus recursos humanos y financieros, sus infraestructuras físicas, tecnológicas y administrativas, sus modelos educativos y sus programas de estudio. Esta heterogeneidad genera condiciones diversas para la consolidación del campo. Sin embargo, aunque los contextos varíen, nos encontramos con elementos comunes en esas estructuras institucionales que obstaculizan el desarrollo de las Humanidades Digitales y, a la vez, pliegues o espacios liminales que posibilitan su avance. Este panel tiene el propósito de a) presentar un marco de referencia general sobre las HD en Iberoamérica, b) realizar un análisis de los desafíos como campo y un balance de los factores determinantes para el avance de las HD en español, c) identificar las estrategias que han ...

The Impact of Sharing Economy in Heritage Neighborhoods in Granada

Sharing Economy and the Impact of Collaborative Consumption, 2020

The objective of this chapter is to provide reliable information from online platforms that quant... more The objective of this chapter is to provide reliable information from online platforms that quantifies the impact of tourist accommodation in Granada in relation to commercial activities, hotels, and residential homes. To do so, the authors take into consideration economic and population variables. Particularly, they focus on offering evidence on the tourist pressure in the most touristic neighborhoods of the city, mainly Albaicín-Sacromonte, Centro 1, and Realejo. This type of research has been widely demanded by residents, local government, and stakeholders in general in order to take action on this field.

Independent publishers and social networks in the 21st century: the balance of power in the transatlantic Spanish-language book market

Online Information Review, 2020

PurposeThe present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-lang... more PurposeThe present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-language, independent publishing market. The main purposes are to determine whether certain Latin American Spanish-language independent publishers function as gatekeepers of world literature and to analyze the geopolitical structure of this global market, addressing both the Europe-America dialectic and neocolonial practices.Design/methodology/approachAfter selecting the sample of publishers, the authors conducted a search for their Twitter profiles and located 131; they then downloaded data from the corresponding Twitter APIs. Finally, they applied social network analysis to study the presence of and interaction between the sample of independent publishers on this social media.FindingsThe results provide data-based evidence supporting the hypothesis of some literary critics who suggest that in Latin America, certain publishers act as gatekeepers to the mainstream book market. Therefore, Twi...

Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks

PLOS ONE, 2020

This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been... more This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been adapted to this context in order to generate Pathfinder networks (PFNET) that highlight the most relevant scientific journals and categories, and their interactions in order to find out how scientific literature is consumed through this open encyclopaedia. In addition to this, their obsolescence has been studied through Price index. A total of 1 433 457 references available at Altmetric.com have been initially taken into account. After pre-processing and linking them to the data from Elsevier's CiteScore Metrics the sample was reduced to 847 512 references made by 193 802 Wikipedia articles to 598 746 scientific articles belonging to 14 149 journals indexed in Scopus. As highlighted results we found a significative presence of "Medicine" and "Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology" papers and that the most important journals are multidisciplinary in nature, suggesting also that high-impact factor journals were more likely to be cited. Furthermore, only 13.44% of Wikipedia citations are to Open Access journals.

Mapping the backbone of the Humanities through the eyes of Wikipedia

Journal of Informetrics, 2019

The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations t... more The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations to Wikipedia article references and, subsequently, to map these relationships between scientific papers. This theory, originally applied to scientific literature, will be transferred to the digital environment of collective knowledge generation. To this end, a dataset containing Wikipedia references collected from Altmetric and Scopus' Journal Metrics journals has been used. The articles have been categorized according to the disciplines and specialties established in the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC). They have also been grouped by journal of publication. A set of articles in the Humanities, comprising 25 555 Wikipedia articles with 41 655 references to 32 245 resources, has been selected. Finally, a descriptive statistical study has been conducted and co-citations have been mapped using networks and indicators of degree and betweenness centrality.

Andalabs: conectando la innovación ciudadana en Andalucía

revista PH, 2017

La Red de Laboratorios Ciudadanos de Andalucía nace en mayo de 2017 de la mano de Medialab UGR, p... more La Red de Laboratorios Ciudadanos de Andalucía nace en mayo de 2017 de la mano de Medialab UGR, perteneciente a la Universidad de Granada, con la intención de conectar la innovación ciudadana que se desarrolla en Andalucía en sus diversas formas. AndaLabs centra su atención en la pluralidad de espacios físicos y/o digitales, híbridos, que sirven de cauce a la innovación social y ciudadana, y en la integración del conocimiento plural distribuido en la sociedad, otorgando el papel protagonista a la ciudadanía.

Policy labs in Europe: political innovation, structure and content analysis on Twitter

El Profesional de la Información, 2018

and Society of the UGR. His research has focused mainly on the application of webmetric technique... more and Society of the UGR. His research has focused mainly on the application of webmetric techniques to the field of business and politics, as well as the use of digital technologies in education. He is working on digital culture, digital scholarship and digital humanities and social sciences. http://medialab.ugr.es http://estebanromero.com

Social labs in universities: Innovation and impact in medialab UGR

Comunicar, 2017

Social laboratories, defined as experimental spaces for co-creation, have currently become the ma... more Social laboratories, defined as experimental spaces for co-creation, have currently become the main centres of innovation. Medialabs are experimental laboratories of technologies and communication media which have co-evolved along with the digital society into becoming mediation laboratories of citizen experimentation, observing a confluence of both models. In the last years, these centres have expanded within the higher education context, generating new forms of innovation and posing the issue on how to measure the impact of such open spaces. This paper analyzes the origin and development of social laboratories in Spain. It first reviews their historical development since its antecedents in the 19th Century until the most recent initiatives. It focuses specifically on initiatives launched within the university context, highlighting their role as motors of innovation. Then, it presents the case of Medialab UGR, a co-creation and digital culture centre of social collaboration framed ...

What Drives Students' Loyalty-Formation in Social Media Learning Within a Personal Learning Environment Approach? The Moderating Role of Need for Cognition

Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016

Our study analyzes an educational experience based on the integrated use of social media within a... more Our study analyzes an educational experience based on the integrated use of social media within a higher education course under a personal learning environment approach and investigates the factors that determine students' loyalty to social media learning. We examined the moderating role of need for cognition (NFC) in students' formation of attitudes, satisfaction, and loyalty toward this learning experience. The results indicate that NFC has an influence on these variables, significantly moderating how loyalty toward social media learning is formed. For high-NFC students, satisfaction with the learning experience is the most important variable to explain loyalty; whereas for low-NFC students, attitudes have a stronger effect. Different strategies are suggested, according to the learners' NFC levels, for increasing the use of social media in personal learning environments. Practical implications for improving the integration of such informal resources into formal educati...

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: técnicas, herramientas y experiencias de e-Research e investigación en colaboración

Este libro y cada uno de los capítulos que contiene, así como las imágenes incluidas, si no se in... more Este libro y cada uno de los capítulos que contiene, así como las imágenes incluidas, si no se indica lo contrario, se encuentran bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-No Comercial-Sin Derivadas 3.0 Unported. Puede ver una copia de esta licencia en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-La edición del presente libro ha sido posible gracias a la financiación recibida por el proyecto de I+D-Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: casos, gestión y modelos de negocio‖ 1 concedido por el Campus de Excelencia Internacional BioTic Granada. Dicho proyecto está vinculado a las actividades de GrinUGR-Colaboratorio sobre culturas digitales en ciencias sociales y humanidades 2. Los editores del libro agradecemos a los autores y prologuistas su confianza y buen hacer en la consecución de un volumen que pretende dar difusión a las investigaciones que se están realizando en el campo de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales a ambos lados del Atlántico, reflejando así la pluralidad de perspectivas que hoy en día existen en la comunidad académica hispana.

Web search volume as a predictor of academic fame: An exploration of Google trends

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2013

Post-print for research purposes.

Exploring Web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analysis: a multi-industry case

Scientometrics, 2012

The study explored the feasibility of using Web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analys... more The study explored the feasibility of using Web keyword analysis as an alternative to link analysis and tested the feasibility in a multi-industry environment. The keyword is the organization's name, in this case the company name. American companies from five industries were included in the study. The study found that the Web visibility of a company as measured by the number of Webpages on which the company name appears correlates with the company's business measures (revenue, profits, and assets). The correlation coefficients are similar to that between the inlink counts and the business measures. This suggests that the keyword count (searched by the company name) could replace inlink count as an alternative indicator of some commonly used business measures. The co-word (the co-occurrence of the names of two companies on Webpages) count was used as a measure of the relatedness of the two companies. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis was applied to the co-word matrices and generated MDS maps that showed relationships among companies in a multi-industry context. Keyword data were collected from three different types of Websites (general Websites, blog sites, and Web news sites) and results were compared. The study found blog sites to be the better source to collect data for this type of study. The comparison of MDS maps generated from co-link data and the blog co-word data showed that the co-word analysis is as effective as co-link analysis in mapping business relationships. The value of the study is not limited to the business sector as the co-word method could be applied to analysing relationships among other types of organizations.

El empleo de la Webmetría para el análisis de los indicadores de desempeño y posición financiera de la empresa: un análisis exploratorio en diversos sectores económicos de los Estados Unidos

Innovar, 2015

El desarrollo de Internet a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas ha dado lugar a una nueva discipl... more El desarrollo de Internet a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas ha dado lugar a una nueva disciplina que permite estudiar la Web desde un punto de vista cuantitativo: la webmetría. La aplicación de técnicas webmétricas al estudio de empresas apunta a la posible existencia de relaciones entre el número de enlaces que recibe un sitio web corporativo y determinadas variables económico-financieras. La incipiente evidencia encontrada se limita, en todo caso, a empresas pertenecientes a sectores tecnológicos que, por su propia naturaleza, cuentan con una fuerte presencia en la Red. El presente trabajo, de carácter exploratorio, extiende el análisis a diversos sectores económicos de los Estados Unidos, confirmando la existencia de una relación significativa entre las variables expuestas. Esto abre nuevas posibilidades de investigación en el ámbito empresarial a partir del empleo de la información extraída de la estructura de enlaces de la Web.

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: una visión introductoria

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales

A view on Personal Learning Environments through approaches to learning

In the past years the impact of social media in students in Higher Education has been remarkably ... more In the past years the impact of social media in students in Higher Education has been remarkably significant (Pew Research Center, 2010; Tapscott, 2009). In order to exploit the potential benefits of these tools on education, we carried out different experiments using wikis and private social networks. Although the results were positive, we decided to move towards a more open approach using tools not directly linked to educational purposes. This paper reports on an experience in the use of Personal Learning Environments (PLE) to develop competences needed by students for lifelong learning. PLE is a concept that refers to the set of tools, devices, connections and networks that we used to learn. Nowadays building a digital PLE is key to achieve the goals set by the European Union. The main objective of the paper is to analyse the influence of the approaches to learning of students in the reported effects of the PLE as well as in relevant aspects of the learning process. 245 students enrolled in a course on International Accounting participated in the experience of developing their own digital PLE. Some of the activities proposed used social networks, Twitter, blogs and wikis. The data were gathered through a web based questionnaire in two steps: 1) to obtain a priori self-confidence measures regarding communication in academic tasks and web related tasks, and 2) to obtain a measure of the approaches to learning of the students and self-confidence measures. According to students' opinion, the experience was deemed as positive. In order to check the relationships between the impact of the experience and the approach to learning of students, a cluster analysis was performed. Students were classified into two groups. The cluster #1 presents lower scores on deep approach and higher scores on surface approach than students classified into cluster #2. Comparing the scores obtained in all the aspects of learning between the two groups, many differences arise. Students in the deep approach group indicated a significant higher impact in all measured aspects. Results suggest that certain a type of students, more flexible and likely to manage information in their own, is able to use PLEs more effectively to learn than those who present a more pragmatic orientation focussed on passing the course.

Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales. Técnicas, herramientas y experiencias de e-Research e investigación en colaboración.

El desarrollo, a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, de las tecnologías de la información ... more El desarrollo, a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación ha transformado profundamente la sociedad, la academia y las formas de generación de conocimiento. El indiscutible impacto social de este fenómeno ha modificado significativamente las ciencias sociales y las humanidades, las cuales viven un tiempo de redefinición, cuestionamiento y puesta en valor en un contexto social cada vez más hiperconectado.

Ello ha motivado el desarrollo de múltiples propuestas conceptuales que se han tratado de recoger, en este volumen, bajo la denominación de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales, queriendo abarcar una doble vía de reflexión, la que se desarrolla, por un lado, bajo las Humanidades Digitales y, por otro, bajo la e-Research.

El libro pretende contribuir a mostrar las formas en las que las humanidades y las ciencias sociales en el contexto hispano están enfrentando un cambio de paradigma cultural motivado por la irrupción de las tecnologías digitales. Su objetivo es promover este tipo de investigación y visibilizar su comunidad de investigadores.

El libro comienza con un capítulo introductorio sobre las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales y se estructura en tres bloques. El primero, “Investigaciones en torno al estado de la cuestión de las Humanidades Digitales y la e-Research” comprende tres capítulos en los que se aborda una panorámica de las Humanidades Digitales y de la e-Research en el contexto hispano.

El segundo bloque “Potenciales usos de Internet y de la Web social para la investigación en ciencias sociales y humanidades” incluye, aportaciones que van desde los métodos (Big Data o Webmetría) hasta el análisis de fenómenos digitales (iniciativas P2P) pasando por algunas reseñas de proyectos.

En el último bloque, “Experiencias sobre investigación colaborativa y sobre enseñanza-aprendizaje en el contexto de la e-Research y las Humanidades Digitales”, se aborda una propuesta de Tesis 2.0 y una experiencia de formación basada en TEI.