Assistant Professor @ UPV
Cristina Font
A paper a day keeps the PhD awake
This post explores a study analyzing how mentions of scientific articles in YouTube videos can predict their academic and societal impact. Medical and biological sciences lead the way, and subscriber count and video views play a key role.
A paper a day keeps the PhD awake
YouTube isn’t just for entertainment, it can be a powerful tool for science communication. A PLOS ONE study of American Chemical Society videos reveals how factors like video length, likes, and mobile viewing influence audience engagement with science on YouTube. Communicating science effectively isn’t just about the content, it’s about how it’s presented.
Academic Mobility
I’ve just started a new research stay at Universitat de Barcelona with Carlos Lopezosa, exploring how patents are positioned and made visible in digital environments. This adventure is the beginning of a broader journey to design new indicators that help improve the way research is shared and understood.
A paper a day keeps the PhD awake
A paper a day keeps the PhD awake: Word Association Thematic Analysis (WATA) is a mixed-methods workflow that first detects statistically distinctive words between two groups of texts, then interprets them in context to develop themes—offering scalable, human-meaningful comparisons across large corpora.
A paper a day keeps the PhD awake
One of the hardest (and most essential) parts of doing reserach is staying up to date with the scientific literature. Don’t know for you, but in my case, papers, chapters, and books pile up faster than I can read them… and many end up forgotten in a folder named something like “to_read_pdfs” 😅. To keep that from happening (or at least try) I’ve decided to launch a section on this blog called A paper a day keeps …