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Doctoral dissertations enable the transfer of research skills and capacities to future generations and the consolidation of lines of research in a given area of knowledge. The field of Library and Information Science in public universities in Spain is characterized by the supervision of doctoral theses by academics in the area. We identified active professors during the 2019-2020 academic year, their date of appointment as civil servants within the public university system, the dissertations that they supervised, and their participation in papers published in scientific journals. The analysis included 644 theses. About a quarter (23%) of university faculty have never supervised a doctoral thesis, and most faculty members and tenured professors (60%) show a lower than average rate of adviserships per year since their academic appointment. There is a high concentration of PhD advisers in just a few institutions and academics (8% of university professors have supervised 42% of the dissertations), with an important gender imbalance: women supervised an average of 1.8 dissertations, compared with 2.6 for men. Information units and services, study metrics and scientific publications, and information sources are the topics of 47% of the dissertations. Many of the professors with 10 or more adviserships (n/N = 12/18) lack a subject area specialization, and their role in PhD supervision was not related to their participation in research activities oriented toward publishing in scientific journals. Our results suggest that considering supervision of doctoral theses as an important academic merit could contribute to a further concentration of power and social capital among a small group of advisers. This phenomenon could reduce the plurality of topics addressed and favor suboptimal adviserships. The imbalances described emerge as another threat, exacerbating the epistemological crisis in the discipline and in the university studies in this area of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This seccion introduces all the abstracts of the papers presented at the 1st. Research Conference organized by the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas in November 2015, in order to show the progress of the ongoing investigations. It refers to the UBACYT project, Projects of Institutional Recognition, and lastly, projects in state of preparation and study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes as a basis the existence of an Informatics Technological Centre, implanted in a Research Complex, which is based on an architecture of agents and provides users with updated information, mechanisms of alerts and ease in finding information with a proactive behavior. Despite all these facilities provided, this Technological Observatory has lacks of functionalities for monitoring trends and indicators related to research topics. It is proposed to use Business Intelligence elements, such as dashboards, plus social modeling approach and i* to model the Observatory with new functionality to improve support decision making. As a result i* models are obtained where Technological Observatory requirements following a goal-oriented approach are captured. In these models the actors, goals, tasks and resources needed to incorporate elements of the dashboards in the Technology Centre are incorporated following an architecture of agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spanish research in Documentation (or Library and Information Science, LIS) began to stand out in the 1980s, in parallel with the creation of university studies in Library and Information Science, and it increased its activity significantly until the year 2000. In this period, research in Documentation was oriented to disseminate rather than innovate, and also had a low international impact, shortage of economic and human resources, and poor methodological quality. In the first 20 years of the 21st century, we have witnessed an outstanding growth and diversification of this research activity, which has led to the overcoming of most of the problems mentioned before. The objective of the text is to present a general overview of the development of Documentation research in Spain in the last 20 years based on the analysis of five fundamental aspects: publications (articles and monographs), topics and methodologies, scientific journals, research projects and doctoral theses. General descriptive data from public statistical sources and comments from a bibliographic review are provided for each of them. As a conclusion, a very positive global balance of Spanish research in Documentation in the last 20 years stands out, not only a quantitative increase (in publications, theses, research projects, etc.) but also a qualitative improvement in the use of research methods and techniques, as well as a diversification of the research topics. In any case, internationalization (collaboration with foreign authors) and the presentation of international projects could be improved. Finally, there is a risk in near future related to aging and the absence of generational renewal of the research staff that can will slow down this growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the aim to create production indicators through the gathering of researchers curricula and starting with the data resulting from the INTA scientific production for the period 2000-2005, this paper analyzes the validity of the Impact Factor as a way to evaluate researchers' scientific activity. Also, a reflection is done about the proposal of alternative systems to measure the production, in particular the H index, from Hirsch, in order to define the most convenient system for our institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this study is get to know the scientific research done at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in pure, experimental, and technological sciences, during 2000 and 2004. The main sources of information have been the ISI data bases; the article is the type of document analyzed; and the SI subject classification has been used. The results report data on productivity output, quality, reliability, language and main topics, and the international visibility and impact of its papers depending on the journals in which they have been published, measuring the impact factor and quartiles as a tool for ranking and categorizing journals, and the citations received by other authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we show that the aggregation of bibliometric indices is an appropriate way to evaluate scientific production of researchers because it allows us to develop much more precise new bibliometric indices that combine the advantages of each index that is aggregated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]