Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes is PhD candidate at Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University

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Incorporating the human factor in the study of universities

University evaluation is done, in part, by evaluating the papers produced by the university. However, universities don’t produce papers, right? People produce papers! In this blogpost we illustrate how you can use the number of papers produced by individuals to evaluate universities.

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes and Rodrigo Costas • October 28, 2020

The Book That Changed My Notion of Work

This summer season, we are publishing a series of book reviews. This time, our colleague Juan shares with us a book that is very close to his heart, and which had an influence on how he sees the idea of work.

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes • August 07, 2020

Juan reads a paper part 2: The experience

Quantitative and qualitative scientists write, work and think differently. This division creates an intellectual rift between scientists, but we still need each other! I am a quantitative scientist, will I be able to read a qualitative paper?

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes • January 16, 2020

Juan reads a paper part 1: The blame

University rankings are frequently misused by the public, but is it their fault or the fault of the ranking creators? Join me as I discover a paper that could answer this question.

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes • January 06, 2020

The Pain of Labeling Things

Labeling things is hard, but labeling groups of things is harder! At CWTS we automatically group publications and label them with an algorithm, but these labels can be puzzling for human minds. In this post, I find out how the same group of publications can have the labels "queer theory" and "home".

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes • October 31, 2019