Ismael Rafols, Research Fellow SPRU of University of Sussex (UK) and Senior Research Associate Technology and Policy Assessment Centre of School of Public Policy of Georgia Institute of Technology (USA).
Education
MSc in Science and Technology Policy, with distinction SPRU, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 2004-2006
PhD in Information Science (Developmental Biology and Statistical Physics) Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1998-2001
MSc in Statistical Physics Chou University, Tokyo, Japan, 1996-1998
BSc in Physics University of Barcelona, 1988-1993.
Recent journal articles
Global and overlay maps of science
Rafols, I., Porter, A.L. and Leydesdorff, L. (To appear) Science overlay maps: A new tool for research policy and library management. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21368.
Rafols, I. and Leydesdorff, L. (2009). Content-based and Algorithmic Classifications of Journals: Perspectives on the Dynamics of Scientific Communication and Indexer Effects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Leydesdorff, L. and Rafols, I. (2009) A Global Map of Science Based on the ISI Subject Categories. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(2), 348-362 (Fast Breaking Paper by Thomson-Reuter's Essential Science Indicators).
Measures and mapping of interdisciplinary research
Leydesdorff, L. and Rafols, I (Under review) Indicators of interdisciplinarity of journals: Diversity, centrality, and citations. Journal of Informetrics.
Wagner, C. S., Roessner, J. D., Bobb, K., Klein, J. T., Boyack, K. W., Keyton, J., Rafols, I. and Börner, K. (Forthcoming). Approaches to Understanding and Measuring Interdisciplinary Scientific Research (IDR): A Review of the Literature. Journal of Informetrics.
Rafols, I. and Meyer, M. (2010) Diversity and Network Coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: case studies in bionanoscience. Scientometrics, 82(2), 263-287.
Kiss, I. Z., Broom, M., and Rafols, I. (2009) Can epidemic model describe the diffusion of topics across disciplines? Journal of Informetrics.
Porter, A.L. and Rafols, I. (2009) Is Science Becoming more Interdisciplinary? Measuring and Mapping Six Research Fields over Time. Scientometrics. 81(3), 719-745.
Rafols, I., and Meyer, M. (2009) Disciplinary diversity and topic coherence: the case of hybrid nanomaterials research. Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 3(1), 79-88.
More information about Ismael Rafols
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/people/peoplelists/person/167630
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