Workshops

SPEAKER: Dr. Jose Rodriguez, Universidad San Sebastian, CHILE

 Workshop: How to write highly cited papers.

Abstract.

Throughout his long career as a researcher, the speaker has concluded that writing a good paper is a very important activity to report the results of any research work. In this workshop, the speaker will present how researchers' performance is measured and how papers are evaluated. Special attention will be given to the different parts of a publication: title, abstract, introduction, main content and conclusions, explaining aspects such as style and format. The presentation also includes the writing of survey papers.

This talk is recommended for teachers, researchers and undergraduate and graduate students and in general, for all those people who are interested in doing research.

About the Speaker.

Jose Rodriguez is an Electrical Engineer from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María, Chile and a Doctor Ingenieur from the University of Erlangen, Germany.

His research work has been dedicated to power electronics. He is the author of +1000 publications, +400 of them in mainstream journals. He has +100,000 citations and a Hirsch factor H = 120. He is the only researcher in South America who has been included continuously between years 2014 and 2024 on the list of “Highly Cited Researchers”, that recognizes the most influential scientists in the world, considering the citations of their papers. In 2014 he obtained the National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences awarded by the Government of Chile. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering.

He has been Rector (President) of Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María, Universidad Andrés Bello and Universidad San Sebastián, all in Chile.