M.A Student-Master of Advanced Research in Sociology

Faculty of Sociology and Social Work

Schitu Măgureanu, nr. 9, Bucharest

E-mail: bianca.mihaila@icub.unibuc.ro

Education

M.A Student-Master of Advanced Research in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, 2016

B.A Student- Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, 2013

Research Interests

My social research interest is focused on social networks analysis and scientific collaboration networks (e.g co-authorship networks) within academic communities.

The main objective of my B.A Thesis was the discovery of behaviors that characterize scientific collaboration networks between academic researchers of the sociology departments of universities from Slovenia and Poland. Also, by using scientometrics indicators such as H-index, average number of citation of the co-authors or maximum Hirsch score of the co-authors for quantitative measuring of science, I highlighted the ways in which a researcher can increase his scientific impact.

My study had as a heading point the fact that the co-authorship network has different characteristics that help to improve the academic quality of a researcher. I can say that various forms of collaboration between researchers encourage interesting publishing behaviors as a crucial indicators for production of various types of knowledge.

My Thesis has received the First Prize at the Student Scientific Session in 2016.

For my M.A. Thesis I would like to study how co-authorship networks are formed, shaped and enhanced by transnationalism. I want to explore the networks of international scientific collaboration among countries and patterns of international collaboration in different types of academic fields (sociology, art humanities, social sciences). What is more, I would like to draw a map based on the frequency of collaboration in order to see if there are any countries preferences.

Current Research Projects

I am currently part of the ORBITS project team which focuses on mapping transnational social field. The study focuses on Romanians living in two of these enclaves, two significantly different places: Castellón de la Plana and Roquetas de Mar. Regions of origin of the Romanians who live in these enclaves are studied too in order to understand the transnational connections with Dâmbovița and Bistrița-Năsăud respectively.

I am an active member of GraphNets. The research group on graphs and social networks (GraphNets) is an emerging interdisciplinary research entity embedded in the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB).

Since March 2017, I have been the Managing Editor of the International Review of Social Research (IRSR).

Research Interests

Social Networks Analysis

Quantitative Research

*Sociology of Science

*Co-authorship Networks

*Scientific impact

*Transnational Fields

Curriculum Vitae