Publications
I do not have a lot of publications yet, but I hope that the ones I have right now are of interest for you. If you have any questions or are interested in commenting my work I will be happy to receive any comments.
1.
Font-Julian, Cristina I.; Orduña-Malea, Enrique
In: Dinu, Nicoleta-Roxana; Baiget, Tomàs (Ed.): Divulgación, Transferencia e Impacto Social de la Ciencia, Chapter 7, pp. 57-71, Ediciones Profesionales de la Información, 2025, ISBN: 978-84-125757-2-9.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Altmetrics, Patent, Patent Metrics, Social Media Metrics, Social Patentometrics, Twitter
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title = {Eddie Van Halen y "la mejor ilustración de patentes de la historia": Descubriendo las patentes como recursos de información en X (Twitter)},
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abstract = {Las patentes han sido tradicionalmente tratadas de forma marginal en el área de las métricas alternativas (Altmetrics). No obstante, estos documentos pueden ser objeto de análisis para diseñar nuevos indicadores de impacto social y tecnológico. Este estudio tiene como objetivo precisamente analizar la difusión e interés de las patentes en plataformas sociales, utilizando X (Twitter) como estudio de caso. Para ello, se analiza una patente específica (US4656917A), patentada por el músico Eddie Van Halen. A tal fin, se recolectan todos los tweets que incluyen un enlace al texto completo de la patente en Google Patents. A partir del corpus de tweets obtenidos, se analiza el perfil de los usuarios que publicaron los tweets, las interacciones recibidas,
los usuarios que realizaron las interacciones, así como las conversaciones generadas en torno a la patente. Los resultados revelan un moderado volumen de publicaciones concentrado en dos días, vinculado al anuncio del fallecimiento del músico. Los usuarios involucrados son en su mayoría muy productivos y seguidos, detectándose una baja presencia de bots. Las conversaciones generadas en torno a la patente tienen por otra parte una naturaleza mayormente positiva y centrada en el músico y en la icónica ilustración de la patente. A pesar de las limitaciones, especialmente debidas a la dependencia de X (Twitter), este trabajo ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre cómo las patentes pueden ser recursos de información en el ámbito social, sugiriendo el potencial de los estudios de patentometría social para el diseño de nuevos indicadores de impacto de la tecnología y la innovación.},
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Las patentes han sido tradicionalmente tratadas de forma marginal en el área de las métricas alternativas (Altmetrics). No obstante, estos documentos pueden ser objeto de análisis para diseñar nuevos indicadores de impacto social y tecnológico. Este estudio tiene como objetivo precisamente analizar la difusión e interés de las patentes en plataformas sociales, utilizando X (Twitter) como estudio de caso. Para ello, se analiza una patente específica (US4656917A), patentada por el músico Eddie Van Halen. A tal fin, se recolectan todos los tweets que incluyen un enlace al texto completo de la patente en Google Patents. A partir del corpus de tweets obtenidos, se analiza el perfil de los usuarios que publicaron los tweets, las interacciones recibidas,
los usuarios que realizaron las interacciones, así como las conversaciones generadas en torno a la patente. Los resultados revelan un moderado volumen de publicaciones concentrado en dos días, vinculado al anuncio del fallecimiento del músico. Los usuarios involucrados son en su mayoría muy productivos y seguidos, detectándose una baja presencia de bots. Las conversaciones generadas en torno a la patente tienen por otra parte una naturaleza mayormente positiva y centrada en el músico y en la icónica ilustración de la patente. A pesar de las limitaciones, especialmente debidas a la dependencia de X (Twitter), este trabajo ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre cómo las patentes pueden ser recursos de información en el ámbito social, sugiriendo el potencial de los estudios de patentometría social para el diseño de nuevos indicadores de impacto de la tecnología y la innovación.
los usuarios que realizaron las interacciones, así como las conversaciones generadas en torno a la patente. Los resultados revelan un moderado volumen de publicaciones concentrado en dos días, vinculado al anuncio del fallecimiento del músico. Los usuarios involucrados son en su mayoría muy productivos y seguidos, detectándose una baja presencia de bots. Las conversaciones generadas en torno a la patente tienen por otra parte una naturaleza mayormente positiva y centrada en el músico y en la icónica ilustración de la patente. A pesar de las limitaciones, especialmente debidas a la dependencia de X (Twitter), este trabajo ofrece una nueva perspectiva sobre cómo las patentes pueden ser recursos de información en el ámbito social, sugiriendo el potencial de los estudios de patentometría social para el diseño de nuevos indicadores de impacto de la tecnología y la innovación.
2.
Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Font-Julian, Cristina I.
Are patents linked on Twitter? A case study of Google patents Journal Article
In: Scientometrics, vol. 127, pp. 6339–6362, 2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Altmetrics, Link Analysis, Patent, Social Media Metrics, Social Patentometrics, Twitter
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title = {Are patents linked on Twitter? A case study of Google patents},
author = {Enrique Orduña-Malea and Cristina I. Font-Julian},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04519-y},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-10},
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abstract = {This study attempts to analyze patents as cited/mentioned documents to better understand the interest, dissemination and engagement of these documents in social environments, laying the foundations for social media studies of patents (social Patentometrics).Particularly, this study aims to determine how patents are disseminated on Twitter by analyzing three elements: tweets linking to patents, users linking to patents, and patents linked from Twitter. To do this, all the tweets containing at least one link to a full-text patent available on Google Patents were collected and analyzed, yielding a total of 126,815 tweets (and 129,001 links) to 86,417 patents. The results evidence an increase of the number of linking tweets over the years, presumably due to the creation of a standardized patent URL ID and the integration of Google Patents and Google Scholar, which took place in 2015. The engagement achieved by these tweets is limited (80.2% of tweets did not attract likes) but increasing notably since 2018. Two super-publisher twitter bot accounts (dailypatent and uspatentbot) are responsible of 53.3% of all the linking tweets, while most accounts are sporadic users linking to patent as part of a conversation. The patents most tweeted are, by far, from United States (87.5% of all links to Google Patents), mainly due to the effect of the two super-publishers. The impact of patents in terms of the number of tweets linking to them is unrelated to their year of publication, status or number of patent citations received, while controversial and media topics might be more determinant factors. However, further research is needed to better understand the topics discussed around patents on Twitter, the users involved, and the metrics attained. Given the increasing number of linking users and linked patents, this study finds Twitter as a relevant source to measure patent-level metrics, shedding light on the impact and interest of patents by the broad public.},
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This study attempts to analyze patents as cited/mentioned documents to better understand the interest, dissemination and engagement of these documents in social environments, laying the foundations for social media studies of patents (social Patentometrics).Particularly, this study aims to determine how patents are disseminated on Twitter by analyzing three elements: tweets linking to patents, users linking to patents, and patents linked from Twitter. To do this, all the tweets containing at least one link to a full-text patent available on Google Patents were collected and analyzed, yielding a total of 126,815 tweets (and 129,001 links) to 86,417 patents. The results evidence an increase of the number of linking tweets over the years, presumably due to the creation of a standardized patent URL ID and the integration of Google Patents and Google Scholar, which took place in 2015. The engagement achieved by these tweets is limited (80.2% of tweets did not attract likes) but increasing notably since 2018. Two super-publisher twitter bot accounts (dailypatent and uspatentbot) are responsible of 53.3% of all the linking tweets, while most accounts are sporadic users linking to patent as part of a conversation. The patents most tweeted are, by far, from United States (87.5% of all links to Google Patents), mainly due to the effect of the two super-publishers. The impact of patents in terms of the number of tweets linking to them is unrelated to their year of publication, status or number of patent citations received, while controversial and media topics might be more determinant factors. However, further research is needed to better understand the topics discussed around patents on Twitter, the users involved, and the metrics attained. Given the increasing number of linking users and linked patents, this study finds Twitter as a relevant source to measure patent-level metrics, shedding light on the impact and interest of patents by the broad public.
3.
Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Font-Julian, Cristina I.; Ontalba-Ruipérez, José-Antonio; Compés-López, Raúl
Masters of Wine on Twitter: presence, activity, impact and community structure Journal Article
In: Wine Economics and Policy, vol. 10, iss. 1, pp. 73-88, 2021, ISSN: 2112-9774.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Informetrics, Social Media, Twitter, Wine, Wine Experts, Wine Industry
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title = {Masters of Wine on Twitter: presence, activity, impact and community structure},
author = {Enrique Orduña-Malea and Cristina I. Font-Julian and José-Antonio Ontalba-Ruipérez and Raúl Compés-López},
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abstract = {Globalisation, the Internet and social media have changed the kind of actors with influence in the wine industry and the way these actors create signals to communicate credible information about experience and trust attributes. Among the most prestigious experts in the world of wine are the Masters of Wine (MW). Although initially devoted to international trade, they have spread their activities and their opinion is more and more appreciated by producers and consumers. The main objective of this article is to determine this community of experts’ behaviour on Twitter. In order to do so, four factors (presence, activity, impact and community) have been considered. All Twitter profiles belonging to users awarded with the MW qualification were identified and analysed. In addition, a set of 35,653 tweets published by the MWs were retrieved and analysed through descriptive statistics. The results show MWs on Twitter as high attractors (number of followers), moderate publishers (original contents published), moderate influencers (number of likes and retweets), and low interactors (number of friends and mentions to other users). These findings reveal that the MW community is not using Twitter to gain or reinforce their reputation as an accredited expert in the wine industry, giving more influential space on Twitter to consumers and amateurs.},
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Globalisation, the Internet and social media have changed the kind of actors with influence in the wine industry and the way these actors create signals to communicate credible information about experience and trust attributes. Among the most prestigious experts in the world of wine are the Masters of Wine (MW). Although initially devoted to international trade, they have spread their activities and their opinion is more and more appreciated by producers and consumers. The main objective of this article is to determine this community of experts’ behaviour on Twitter. In order to do so, four factors (presence, activity, impact and community) have been considered. All Twitter profiles belonging to users awarded with the MW qualification were identified and analysed. In addition, a set of 35,653 tweets published by the MWs were retrieved and analysed through descriptive statistics. The results show MWs on Twitter as high attractors (number of followers), moderate publishers (original contents published), moderate influencers (number of likes and retweets), and low interactors (number of friends and mentions to other users). These findings reveal that the MW community is not using Twitter to gain or reinforce their reputation as an accredited expert in the wine industry, giving more influential space on Twitter to consumers and amateurs.
4.
Compés-López, Raúl; Font-Julian, Cristina I.; Orduña-Malea, Enrique
Has Robert Parker lost his hegemony as a prescriptor in the wine World? A preliminar inquiry through Twitter Book Chapter
In: de València, Universitat Politècnica (Ed.): 2018, ISBN: 9788490486894.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Robert Parker, Twitter, Web Data, Web Data Analysis, Webometrics, Wine Experts, Wine Industry, Wine Prescriptor
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title = {Has Robert Parker lost his hegemony as a prescriptor in the wine World? A preliminar inquiry through Twitter},
author = {Raúl Compés-López and Cristina I. Font-Julian and Enrique Orduña-Malea},
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abstract = {he aim of this work is to determine to what extent Robert Parker has lost his influence as a prescriber in the world of wine through a webometric analysis based on a comparative analysis of Parker’s web influence and that of a competitor who represents an anthitetical vision of the world of wine (Alice Feiring). To do this, we carried out a comparative analysis for Parker’s (@wine_advocate) and Alice Feiring’s (@alicefeiring) official Twitter accounts, including a broad set of metrics (productivity, age, Social Activity, number of followees, etc.), paying special attention to specific followers’ features (age, gender, location, and bios text). The results show that Parker’s twitter profile exhibits an overall higher impact, which denotes not only a different online strategy but also a high level of engagement and popularity. The low level of shared followers by Parker and Feiring (1,898 users) offer prima facie evidence of an online gap between these followers, which can indicate the existence of a divided group of supporters corresponding with the visions that Parker and Feiring represent. Finally, special features are notice for Feiring in gender (more women followers), language (more English-speaking followers) and country (more followers from the United States). },
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he aim of this work is to determine to what extent Robert Parker has lost his influence as a prescriber in the world of wine through a webometric analysis based on a comparative analysis of Parker’s web influence and that of a competitor who represents an anthitetical vision of the world of wine (Alice Feiring). To do this, we carried out a comparative analysis for Parker’s (@wine_advocate) and Alice Feiring’s (@alicefeiring) official Twitter accounts, including a broad set of metrics (productivity, age, Social Activity, number of followees, etc.), paying special attention to specific followers’ features (age, gender, location, and bios text). The results show that Parker’s twitter profile exhibits an overall higher impact, which denotes not only a different online strategy but also a high level of engagement and popularity. The low level of shared followers by Parker and Feiring (1,898 users) offer prima facie evidence of an online gap between these followers, which can indicate the existence of a divided group of supporters corresponding with the visions that Parker and Feiring represent. Finally, special features are notice for Feiring in gender (more women followers), language (more English-speaking followers) and country (more followers from the United States).