Adrián A. Díaz-Faes
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About
Present position
Adrián is a Tenured Scientist at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) His research focuses on the role of social networks in science and innovation, science of science, research policy and science-society interactions. He is also affiliated as a Visiting Researcher with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. He currently leads the Momemtun project: Lost in translation? Tracing the communication interface between science, society and the media: a computational social science approach, funded the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility – Next Generation EU.
Training
He has a multidisciplinary background, having earned a PhD and MSc in Applied Multivariate Statistics and BA in Information Science from the University of Salamanca (USAL).
Experience
The underlying theme of his trajectory has been to deepen the understanding of scientific knowledge generation processes and innovation, which he has addressed through different perspectives and research methods, including social networks, scientometrics, econometrics, and survey research. His work has been published in journals such as Research Policy, JASIST, PLOS ONE, Journal of Informetrics, and Research Evaluation, among others. He serves on the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE and Revista Española de Documentación Científica. Previously, Adrián was a Postdoctoral Researcher at INGENIO under highly competitive programmes: JIN projects, Juan de la Cierva Incorporación and Juan de la Cierva Formación. He enjoyed a PhD fellowship (JAE predoc) at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) at CSIC in Madrid, where he conducted his doctoral research under the guidance of Professor María Bordons (2011-15). He became interested in quantitative science studies working as a Research Assistant at the Department of Statistics at the University of Salamanca (2009-11). In between academic positions, he worked at the Office for General Statistics and Studies, an agency under the Spanish Ministry of Education (2016-17). He has been a visiting scholar at CWTS at Leiden University, Dalhousie University, Imperial College Business School, and the University of Copenhagen.
Areas of interest Social networks, science studies, science of science, research policy, medical innovation, sociology of science, knowledge co-creation, science-society interactions, science communication.
Publications
HJ-Biplot como herramienta de inspección de matrices de datos bibliométricos
- 36 - 10.3989/redc.2013.1.988
- 98 - 10.1007/s11192-013-1183-5
- 65 - 10.1002/asi.23081
Making visible the invisible through the analysis of acknowledgements in the humanities
- 69 - 10.1108/ajim-01-2017-0008
Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences
- 12 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0185578
What characterises funded biomedical research? Evidence from a basic and a clinical domain
- 119 - 10.1007/s11192-019-03066-3
- 14 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0216408
- 15 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0238229
- 50 - 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104175
What do biomarkers add: Mapping quantitative imaging biomarkers research
- 146 - 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.110052
- 32 - 10.1093/reseval/rvad003
- 75 - 10.1002/asi.24856
