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She oversaw the <em>Servei de Teledocumentació de l’Àrea de Ciències de la Salu</em>t UB library until 2002. Since 1999, she has been a professor in the <em>Departament de Biblioteconomia i Documentació</em> at the UB. Her research focuses on documentary databases, information retrieval, bibliometric studies, and user training..</div> <div> </div> <div class= rteright ><em>Facultad de Información y Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de Barcelona </em></div> <div class= rteright ><em>Melcior de Palau 140, 08014 Barcelona, España</em></div> <div class= rteright ><em><a href= mailto:msomoza@ub.edu >msomoza@ub.edu</a></em></div> <div class= rteright ><a href= http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-9010 target= _blank >orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-9010</a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class= rteright > <hr /> <p> </p> </div> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td style= vertical-align:top ><img src= ../miar/fotos/team/josep-manuel.png style= height:94px;margin:10px /></td> <td> <div><strong>Josep-Manuel Rodríguez-Gairín</strong>, Professor at the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media of the University of Barcelona, he is also the coordinator of the computer labs and the technological advisor there. He has developed the infrastructure of <em>Temaria: Revistas digitales de biblioteconomía y documentación; BiD: Textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació; MIAR: Matriz de información para la evaluación de revistas; Alehoop: Recursos en línia per elaborar treballs de recerca; EXIT: Directorio de expertos en el tratamiento de la información; IraLIS: International registry of authors-links to identify scientists</em>. Member of <em>Ciepi, ThinkEPI</em> and the Technical Council of de <em>E-LIS</em>. Founder of the company <em>Kronosdoc</em>, dedicated to consulting and development of document management programs.</div> <div> </div> <div class= rteright ><em>Facultad de Información y Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de Barcelona </em></div> <div class= rteright ><em>Melcior de Palau 140, 08014 Barcelona, España</em></div> <div class= rteright ><em><a href= mailto:rodriguez.gairin@ub.edu >rodriguez.gairin@ub.edu</a></em></div> <div class= rteright ><a href= http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8375-7911 target= _blank >orcid.org/0000-0001-8375-7911</a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class= rteright > <hr /> <p> </p> </div> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td style= vertical-align:top ><img src= ../miar/fotos/team/cristobal.png style= height:94px;margin:10px /></td> <td> <div><strong>Cristóbal Urbano</strong>, Professor at the Department of Library Science, Documentation and Media at the University of Barcelona (UB). He is member of the consolidated research group <em>Cultura, Biblioteques i Continguts Digitals (CBCD) (SGR 2021-00282, Generalitat de Catalunya)</em> and researcher at the <em>Centre de Recerca en Informació, Comunicació i Cultura (CRICC)</em> of the UB, where he develops studies on information consumption in the digital environment, analysis of scientific communication in humanities and social sciences, academic digital content management and digital analytics.</div> <div> </div> <div class= rteright ><em>Facultad de Información y Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de Barcelona </em></div> <div class= rteright ><em>Melcior de Palau 140, 08014 Barcelona, España</em></div> <div class= rteright ><em><a href= mailto:urbano@ub.edu >urbano@ub.edu</a></em></div> <div class= rteright ><a href= http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0935-6436 target= _blank >orcid.org/0000-0003-0935-6436</a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class= rteright > <hr /> <p> </p> </div> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td style= vertical-align:top ><img src= ../miar/fotos/team/AnaCarballo.png style= height:94px;margin:10px /></td> <td> <div><strong>Ana Carballo-Garcia</strong>, graduated in Information and Documentation from the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media at the University of Barcelona. An enthusiast of knowledge and library and information science, with a particular interest in designing information systems and data management. Her professional perspective is in the process of enrichment through pursuing a Master in Data Science. She is part of the MIAR team, in the role of supporting system management and in charge of user service..</div> <div> </div> <div class= rteright ><em>Facultad de Información y Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de Barcelona </em></div> <div class= rteright ><em>Melcior de Palau 140, 08014 Barcelona, España</em></div> <div class= rteright ><a href= mailto:anacarballo@ub.edu ><em>anacarballo@ub.edu </em></a></div> <div class= rteright ><a href= http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5468-0342 >orcid.org/0000-0002-5468-0342 </a></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2>Awards and publications</h2> <p>MIAR was recognized in 2012 with the Álvaro Pérez de Ugena Award, granted by the <i>Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social</i> to projects of special merit and relevance for the field of communication research. More information about the Álvaro Pérez de Ugena Awards: <a href= http://www.revistalatinacs.org/13SLCS/Segovia-dragos.pdf > http://www.revistalatinacs.org/13SLCS/Segovia-dragos.pdf </a></p> <p>MIAR has been present as an object of study or as a source of data in some publications such as:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Rafols, I. and Muthu, M. and Rodríguez-Gairín, J. M. and Somoza-Fernández, M., and Urbano, C. Why coverage matters: Invisibility of agricultural research from the Global South may be an obstacle to development. 2023. Recuperado a partir de <a href= https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-coverage-matters-invisibility-of-agricultural-research-from-the-global-south-may-be-an-obstacle-to-development >https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-coverage-matters-invisibility-of-agricultural-research-from-the-global-south-may-be-an-obstacle-to-development</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Urbano, C. and Rodrigues, R.S and Somoza-Fernández, M. and Rodríguez-Gairín, J.M . Why are new journals created? An international analysis of Information and Documentation titles (2013-2018). El Profesional de la Información, 2020, vol. 29, n. 4. <a href= http://hdl.handle.net/2445/170316 >http://hdl.handle.net/2445/170316</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Somoza-Fernández, Marta and Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel and Urbano, Cristóbal.Journal Coverage of the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). Learned Publishing, 2018, vol. 31, n. 3, pp. 199-204. DOI: <a href= https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1160 >10.1002/leap.1160</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Somoza-Fernández, M. and Guallar, J. and Rodríguez-Gairín, J.M. and Abadal, E. Presencia de revistas españolas en bases de datos internacionales. En Revistas científicas. Situación actual y retos de futuro. Edicions Universitat de Barcelona. 2017, pp. 161-168. Recuperado a partir de <a href= http://www.publicacions.ub.edu/ficha.aspx?cod=08744 >http://www.publicacions.ub.edu/ficha.aspx?cod=08744</a></p> </li> <li>Somoza-Fernández, Marta and Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel and Urbano, Cristóbal. <a href= https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2016.sep.03 target= _blank >Presence of alleged predatory journals in bibliographic databases: Analysis of Beall’s list</a>. El profesional de la información, 2016, vol. 25, n. 5, pp. 730-737.<br /> </li> <li>Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel and Somoza-Fernández, Marta and Urbano, Cristóbal <a href= http://eprints.rclis.org/16145/ target= _blank >MIAR: hacia un entorno colaborativo de editores, autores y evaluadores de revistas</a>. El profesional de la información, 2011, vol. 20, n. 5, pp. 589-595.<br /> </li> <li>Urbano, Cristóbal and Somoza-Fernández, Marta and Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel and Ardanuy, Jordi and Guardiola, Elena and Pons, Amadeu and Borrego, Ángel and Brucart, Josep-Maria and Cosculluela, Antoni. <a href= http://eprints.rclis.org/6267/ target= _blank >MIAR : una base de datos para la identificación y la evaluación de la difusión secundaria de revistas de humanidades y ciencias sociales</a>., 2005 . 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