Research
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.
Font-Julian, Cristina I.; Ontalba-Ruipérez, José-Antonio; Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Thelwall, Mike
Which types of online resource support US patent claims? Journal Article
In: Journal of Informetrics, vol. 16, iss. 2022, no. 101247, pp. 14, 2022, ISSN: 1751-1577.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Informetrics, Link Analysis, Patent, Patent Analysis, United States Patent and Trademark Office online resources
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title = {Which types of online resource support US patent claims?},
author = {Cristina I. Font-Julian and José-Antonio Ontalba-Ruipérez and Enrique Orduña-Malea and Mike Thelwall},
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doi = {10.1016/j.joi.2021.101247},
issn = {1751-1577},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-05},
urldate = {2022-01-05},
journal = {Journal of Informetrics},
volume = {16},
number = {101247},
issue = {2022},
pages = {14},
abstract = {Patents are key documents to support the commercial exploitation of inventions. Patent docu- ments must claim inventiveness, industrial application, and novelty to be granted and may use citations and URLs to support these claims as well as to explain their ideas. Although there is much research into the citations used to support inventions, almost nothing is known about the cited URLs. This may hinder inventors and evaluators from deciding which URLs are appropriate. To investigate this issue, all 3,133,247 patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) from 2008 to 2018 were investigated, and 2,719,705 URLs (patent outlinks) were automatically extracted using heuristics, and analyzed using link analyses techniques. A minority of patents included URLs (17.1%), with the percentage increasing over time. The inclusion of URLs differs between disciplines, with Physics (especially the subcategory Computation) having the most URLs per patent. Patents are generally embedded in the “other citations” patent section (referring to academic publications) and the “description” section (e.g., supplementary infor- mation and definitions). Online content-oriented resources (e.g., Wayback Machine, Wikipedia, YouTube), academic bibliographic databases (e.g., IEEE Xplore, Microsoft Academic, PubMed, CiteSeerX) and technological companies (e.g., IBM, Amazon, Microsoft) are often linked from USPTO patents. These findings show the broad roles that URLs can play when supporting a patent claim. Finally, in order to avoid bad practices found in the inclusion of URLs in patents, a list of recommendations to cite online resources from patents is provided.},
keywords = {Informetrics, Link Analysis, Patent, Patent Analysis, United States Patent and Trademark Office online resources},
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Font-Julian, Cristina I.
Descubrimiento y evaluación de recursos web de calidad mediante Patent Link Analysis PhD Thesis
2021.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cybermetrics, Informetrics, Link Analysis, Patent, United States Patent and Trademark Office online resources, Web Quality, Webmetrics
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title = {Descubrimiento y evaluación de recursos web de calidad mediante Patent Link Analysis},
author = {Cristina I. Font-Julian},
editor = {Universitat Politècnica de València},
url = {https://crifonju.upv.edu.es/phd-cfont-vdeposito/},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/170640},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-06-22},
urldate = {2021-06-22},
abstract = {Patents are legal documents that describe the exact operation of an invention, granting the right of economic exploitation to its owners in exchange for describing the details of the operation of said invention. For a patent to be granted, it must meet three requirements: be novel (not have been previously exhibited or published), comply with the inventive step, and have industrial application. That is why patents are valuable documents, since they contain a large amount of technical information not previously included in another type of document (published or available). Due to the particular characteristics of patents, the resources that they mention, as well as the resources that mention patents, contain links that can be useful and give support to various applications (technological surveillance, development and innovation, Triple-Helix, etc.) by having complementary information, as well as the creation of tools and techniques that allow them to be extracted and analyzed. The proposed method to achieve the objectives that define the thesis is divided into two complementary blocks: Patent Outlink and Patent Inlink, which together make up the Patent Link Analysis technique. To carry out the study, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is selected, collecting all those patents granted between 2008 and 2018 (both included). Once the information to be analyzed has been extracted in each block, there are: 3,133,247 patents, 2,745,973 million links contained in patents, 2,297,366 million linked patent web pages, 17,001 unique web pages linking patents and 990,663 Unique patents linked from web documents. The results of the Patent Outlink analysis show that both the number of patents that contain links (20%) and the number of links contained in patents (median 4-5) is still low, but has grown significantly in recent years and you can expect more use in the future. There is a clear difference in the use of links between areas of knowledge (42% belong to Physics, especially Computing and Calculus), as well as by sections within the documents, explaining the results obtained and the projection of future analyzes. The results of the Patent Inlink analysis identify considerably fewer web domains that link to patents (17,001 vs. 256,724), but there are more links per linking document (the total number of links is similar for both analysis blocks). Likewise, the data shows a high dispersion, with a few domains generating a large number of links. Both blocks show the existence of a high relationship with companies and technological services, with differences related to links to Universities and Governments (more links in Outlink). Finally, it is verified that the proposed model allows in an efficient, effective and replicable way the extraction and analysis of the links contained and directed to patent documents, as well as facilitating the discovery and evaluation of quality web resources. In addition, it is concluded that cybermetrics, through the link analysis technique, provides information of interest for the analysis of quality web resources through the links contained and directed to patent documents. The proposed and validated method allows defining, modeling and characterizing Patent Link Analysis as a subgenre of Link Analysis that can be used for the construction of link intelligence monitoring, evaluation and / or quality systems, among others, through the use of the inbound and outbound links of applicable patent documents universities, research centers, as well as public and private companies.},
howpublished = {Universitat Politècnica de València},
keywords = {Cybermetrics, Informetrics, Link Analysis, Patent, United States Patent and Trademark Office online resources, Web Quality, Webmetrics},
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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},
doi = {doi.org/10.36253/wep-9055},
issn = {2112-9774},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-04-17},
journal = {Wine Economics and Policy},
volume = {10},
issue = {1},
pages = {73-88},
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.},
keywords = {Informetrics, Social Media, Twitter, Wine, Wine Experts, Wine Industry},
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Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Font-Julian, Cristina I.; Ontalba-Ruipérez, José-Antonio
Covid-19: análisis métrico de vídeos y canales de comunicación en YouTube Journal Article
In: Profesional de la Información, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. e290401, 2020, ISSN: 1699-2407.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Health Information, Informetrics, Pandemics, Spain, Video, YouTube
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title = {Covid-19: análisis métrico de vídeos y canales de comunicación en YouTube},
author = {Enrique Orduña-Malea and Cristina I. Font-Julian and José-Antonio Ontalba-Ruipérez},
doi = {10.3145/epi.2020.jul.01},
issn = {1699-2407},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-05-17},
urldate = {2020-05-17},
journal = {Profesional de la Información},
volume = {29},
number = {4},
pages = {e290401},
abstract = {El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar el volumen de vídeos sobre Covid-19 publicados y difundidos a través de <em>YouTube</em> y relacionados directa o indirectamente con el territorio nacional español, caracterizar su impacto (en términos de visualizaciones, <em>likes</em> y comentarios recibidos), y finalmente categorizar los canales a través de los cuales se han difundido. Para ello se han analizado 39.531 vídeos publicados entre el 1 enero y el 30 de abril de 2020. Los resultados muestran que el número de vídeos sobre Covid-19 aumentaron a partir del establecimiento del estado de alarma en España y, poco a poco, han ido disminuyendo en el tiempo, con ciertos repuntes vinculados a decisiones políticas. Los vídeos logran en promedio un gran número de visualizaciones, <em>likes/dislikes</em> y comentarios, y han sido publicados principalmente por medios de comunicación. Los vídeos relacionados con blogs y entretenimiento son muy numerosos pero con menor impacto. Los vídeos pertenecientes a las categorías de <em>Educación</em> y <em>Ciencia y Tecnología</em> son menos numerosos pero con un alto impacto, especialmente en visualizaciones. De forma complementaria, se concluye que los criterios de ordenación de <em>YouTube</em> no son lo suficientemente precisos como para ser utilizados en estudios informétricos sin una alta carga de trabajo en limpieza de datos. Así mismo, la existencia de canales que aplican estrategias engañosas de posicionamiento dificulta la realización de este tipo de estudios.},
keywords = {Coronavirus, Covid-19, Health Information, Informetrics, Pandemics, Spain, Video, YouTube},
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