Quantity or quality in research? – We need both!

by jordicabot | Dec 28, 2022 | evaluating research, Research Rants, Uncategorized

More and more, all evaluation agencies and the research community as a whole is evolving to reward quality over quantity. All recent research assessment manifests (e.g DORA) clearly push for a qualitative evaluation where plain numbers (total amount of publications,...

MetaScience: Holistic Approach for Research Modeling and Analysis

by jordicabot | Nov 16, 2016 | Uncategorized, Research Rants

This article (presented at the ER2016 conference) proposes a conceptual schema providing a holistic view of conference-related information (e.g., authors, papers, committees and topics). This schema is automatically and incrementally populated with data available...

Another epic fail: Making only 300 USD with Amazon affiliate links in 5 years

by jordicabot | Jan 14, 2016 | affiliate, business model, stories entrepreneur, Uncategorized

Yes I do mean 300 and no 300K. And yes, I’m aware this is an epic fail (if you’re new to this site, please check my domain URL) but with so many posts of people making thousands of dollars a year (even some a month) with affiliate amazon links, I wanted to...

Best new year’s resolution for any researcher: be more present online

by jordicabot | Jan 3, 2016 | doing research, presenting, Research Rants, social, Uncategorized

It’s time for all you to set your goals for this year we’re starting. Let me add one to your to-do list: Have a strong presence online!!!! This goal has four big advantages over any other goal you may have set to accomplish this year: It’s simple...

Explain me your research as if

by jordicabot | Jun 24, 2015 | Research Rants, Uncategorized

Nice tweet by @AcademicsSay (a MUST twitter account to follow if you’re a researcher) summarizing in one sentence how to communicate your research work. Explain your research to me as if I were a child. As if I have little knowledge of and absolutely no interest...

I’m now an ICREA Research Professor at IN3 (UOC)

by jordicabot | Jun 24, 2015 | Research Rants, Uncategorized

This site has been so awfully quiet during the last two months that I even forget to announce here I was leaving my Inria / École des Mines de Nantes position and taking a new one as ICREA Research Professor at Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (research center of...