Daniel Torres-Salinas &

Nicolás Robinson-García

Friday, 10 June 2022

Sapienza Università di Roma

European Summer School for Scientometrics

Frontiers of the Evaluation

Workshop in Honour of the

Memory of Henk F. Moed

(1951-2021)

Robinson, Torres & Moed at the ESSS 2018 (Vienna)

Henk Moed and the University of Granada (EC3): an annotated chronology

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7037686

Henk Moed and Ed Noyons during their to the University of Granada

(April 2006)

EC3 group and Henk Moed's in his firt visito to Granada

(April 2006)

Evaristo Jiménez, Henk Moed and Torres-Salinas at ISSI Conference

(April, 2007)

Eugene Garfield with HFM and members of the EC3 Research Group

(June, 2007)

Living the night of Granada

Date unknown, [2008]?

Does open access publishing increase citation or download rates?

October 2015

Options for an academic policy towards university ranking systems

(May 2017)

Options for an academic policy towards university ranking systems

(May 2017)

Informetria evaluativa aplicada: su validez y utilidad

(October, 2018)

ESSS Vienna (Austria)

(July, 2018)

Henk and Carla with ec3metrics staff at the ESSS Lovain (Belgium)

(July, 2019)

Henk with the Alhambra, fan of Granada :)

  • April 2006

    • Henk's first visit to Spain was in 2006. On April 26 a seminar was held at the Faculty of Library Science with the participation of: Henk F Moed, Ed Noyons and Clara Calero. HFM's presentation was the following: "Potentialities and limitations of the use of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation".

  • April 2007

    • HFM starts a 3 month research stay with the EC3 research group for the preparation of the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 2007 to be held in Madrid on 25th to 27th of June. Henk was the program chair of the conference. DTS worked on the preparation of the conference proceedings.

    • HFM participates in Granada in the Seminar "Initiatives for the bibliometric evaluation of institutions" (11, 12 April). His talk on Open Access and impact Henk brought up his controversy with Stevan Harnad about whether Open Access increases citation or not. Moed showed studies demonstrating that Open Access does not increase citation but simply accelerates it.


  • June 2007

    • Eugene Gardfield and Henk Moed together in Granada

    • Friday June 29th at 12.30 pm at the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery, located in the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Eugene Garfield talked about 'Tracing the history and impact of Science through citation analysis'

  • October 2007 - Febrary 2008

    • During the period 15/10/2007 - 28/02/2008 DTS carries out a research stay at CWTS under the direction of HFM. "Library catalog analysis" is selected as a research topic: the possibilities of using online catalogs to determine the visibility of books are explored. Probably one of the first altmetrics before altmetrics.

  • October 2015

    • Henk returns to Granada to give a lecture at the invitation of the Bibliometrics Unit (directed by DTS at that time).

      • Does open access publishing increase citation or download rates?”

    • The conference provided an overview of open access to science with a focus on its effects on the impact of publications. He discussed "Open Access Citation Advantage" and presented preliminary results on the impact of open access journals based on Google Scholar data. Source

  • January 2017

  • Henk becomes a visiting scholar at the University of Granada thanks to the following funding programme:

    • Visiting Scholar –Disentangling Gold Open Access. Principal researcher: Daniel Torres-Salinas. Team: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado Call: Visiting Scholars Programme, Universidad de Granada. Duration: 01/02/2017-31/12/2017. Type of participation: PI. Funding: 10.000 €.

  • October 2017

    • Henk participed in the "Workshop Reunión de Servicios de Evaluación Científica en los Vicerrectorados de Investigación" at the University of Granada

One slide from the presentation about the application of bibliometric indicators in context

  • September, 2018

    • Henk worked along with DTS, NRG and WAM on Open Access and presented some preliminary findings at the STI Conference held in Leiden between the 12th and 14th of September.

    • Do altmetrics promote Open Access? An exploratory analysis on altmetric differences between types of access in the field of Physics

    • Paper

Email suggesting new activities to conduct
  • 2019

    • Henk edited the Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators along with Wolfgang Glänzel, Ulrich Schmoch and Mike Thelwall. In it, he published along with DTS and NRG the chapter:

    • Disentangling Gold Open Access.

    • Link

  • 2019

  • Wolfgang Glänzel and Cinzia Daraio invite DTS and NRG to participate in the book Evaluative informetrics – the art of metrics based research assessment. Festschrift in honour of Henk F. Moed.

    • Torres-Salinas, D & Arroyo-Machado, W. Library Catalog Analysis and Library Holdings Counts: Origins, Methodological Issues and Application to the Field of Informetrics Link

    • Robinson-Garcia, N & Ràfols, I. The Differing Meanings of Indicators Under Different Policy Contexts. The Case of Internationalisation Link

  • September, 2021

  • DTS and NRG last met Henk on September 29th where they went to Henk's favourite place in Granada, famous for its fried fish where he shared his plans and we had the opportunity to interview him.

Henk's legacy to the Granada team

Henk was not only a friend to us, but he was also a mentor, whose influence went beyond the joint activities we did together, but inspired our future work:

  1. Evaluative bibliometrics and the notion of policy context

  2. Proto-altmetrics: Library Catalog Analysis and the development of new indicators

  3. Scientific mobility and the use of bibliometric methods

  4. Institutional evaluation and science policy

And for this we will be always indebted to him

Believers of the Evaluative Bibliometrics

We continue learning from Henk and spreading his message