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Analysis of institutional authors

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September 27, 2022
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Degree of compliance with the Laws of Transparency, access, and good governance and of the Reuse of procurement data from the Spanish central government

Publicated to:Profesional De La Informacion. 25 (4): 557-567 - 2016-08-01 25(4), DOI: 10.3145/epi.2016.jul.05

Authors: Beltrán-Orenes, P; Martínez-Pastor, E

Affiliations

Univ A Coruna, Documentac, La Coruna, Spain - Author
Univ Carlos III Madrid, Documentac, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Complutense Madrid, Documentac, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Documentac Informat, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Fac Ciencias Comunicac, Fuenlabrada 28943, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Salamanca, Documentac, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain - Author
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Abstract

This study looks at how and if the Spanish central government is currently meeting the laws of transparency and good governance by providing access to public data. The first part is a description of the most relevant legal standards relating to this topic. Subjects, information on recruitment, formats available to reuse information, and platforms on which these public data are published are identified. This study was performed using March 2016 data from the Public Platform for Hiring which is proided by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration of Spain. The most important finding may be that the law has been correctly applied by the Spanish government for the reuse of information. On the other hand, accessing information is difficult and nearly half of the subjects do not offer hiring data despite this requirement.

Keywords

Access to the informationAdministrative transparencyBig dataContracts publicDissemination of informationDissemination of information, access to the informationOpen dataOpen governmentPublic administrationPublic informationReuse of information

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Profesional De La Informacion due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2016, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Cultural Studies. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.74. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.33 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 10.88 (source consulted: Dimensions Oct 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-10-30, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 36
  • Scopus: 38

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-10-30:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 27.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 78 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.7.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 4 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Beltrán Orenes, María Pilar) and Last Author (Martínez Pastor, Esther).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Beltrán Orenes, María Pilar.