“When I look over the books I have written, I know exactly which parts I understood and which parts I did not understand when I wrote them. The poorly understood parts sound scientific. When I barely understood something, I kept it in scientific jargon. When I really comprehended it, I was able to explain it to anyone in language they understood. [...] Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple”
(William Schutz, 1979, pp. 68-69)
To preserve anonymity during double-blind peer review, the titles listed below may differ from the versions submitted to journals. Journal names are intentionally omitted while the articles are under review or have been submitted for review.
I am also developing further research ideas outside my regular working hours. Please contact me if you would like to know more.
Aleixos-Borrás, I., & López, J. J. (2025). A hermeneutic dialogical understanding of data reuse across different access regimes. Science as Culture, 34(1), 114–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2024.2375218
Aleixos-Borrás, I., D’Este, P., & López, J. J. (2026). Opening the black box: an explanatory model of data reuse in health research and beyond. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2026.2660308
Aleixos-Borrás, I., Ortega-Colomer, F.J., Olmos-Peñuela, J., García-Granero, A. (under review). Intelligent Altruistic Academic Engagement. A case study. Anonymized journal.
Aleixos-Borrás, I., Ortega-Colomer, F.J., Olmos-Peñuela, J., García-Granero, A. (in preparation). The black legend of knowledge-related interations' impact.
Aleixos-Borrás, I., Hayter, C., López, J.J., Lubyunsky, R. (to be re-submitted in September 2026). Start-up Coaching: What Does It Add To An Academic Entrepreneurial Ecoystem?
Aleixos-Borrás, I., López, J. J. (drafting). An Optimistic Governmentality Versus The Failure of Government: Start-up Coaching.
RESEARCH APPROACH
I am somewhat nomadic in my engagement with topics, theories, and concepts. I see this as an advantage, since it enables a certain degree of creativity in theorizing and in formulating plausible causal explanations of the phenomena I study. I am not wedded to any particular framework, although I do have my preferred scholars. These are typically researchers who are able to practice Homeric impartiality. Methodologically, I am inclined toward systemic approaches, partly because they resonate with my way of seeing and inhabiting the world. I also tend to foreground sequences and processes in the study of social phenomena. In this respect, my research—and the way I conduct it—reflects, to a significant extent, how I am.
My research is at the crossroads of history of science, sociology of science, STS, science policy, and philosophy of science. I also draw on organizational and management theories to explain phenomena.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Although my research interests are broad, they share a common focus so far: how researchers behave, make decisions, enact values, and relate to society. More precisely, my work examines research behavior as embedded in social contexts. I am also interested in how the design of technology conditions people's lives, and how technologies are created and developed.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
"Proyecto Cátedras. (Spanish University Chairs) Transferencia e intercambio de conocimiento entre grupos de investigación y equipos de alta dirección" (1 September 2024 - 28 February 2025; July 2025- June 2026). University of Valencia (Spain).
"Disrupting gendered stereotypes and disclosing neglected value-laden motivations of academic entrepreneurship" (UNGENDERED VALUES). My own MSCA post-doctoral project under the supervision of Ferran Giones (24 months. 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2024). Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science. University of Stuttgart (Germany).
EXREL (EXcelencia científica y RELevancia socioeconómica de la investigación) project. Researcher with Julia Olmos-Peñuela, project's PI.
IMPROC-BIONET (Movilización del conocimiento para la ciencia y la innovación: análisis de impacto y procesos en redes de investigación biomédica). Collaborator with Pablo D'Este and Rocio Poveda, project's PIs, and the rest of the team members.
RESEARCH GROUPS
FORTHEM (Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility). Collaborator in Module 4 "Digital Transformation Lab"
Attended (or will attend)
Eu-SPRI 2026 Annual Conference "Questioning the contributions of Science and Innovation to Society", 10-12 June 2026, Valencia (Spain).
Special Session: Expanding the societal impact of innovation: An Introduction to The Impact Licensing Framework. Covenors: Inma Aleixos Borrás, Ana García Granero and Julia Olmos Peñuela. Abstract "The Impact Licensing Framework. What is it and why should we care?"
Abstract: On the fringes of funding instruments for addressing societal needs. The case of the Spanish ‘cátedras’. Co-authors: Ana García Granero, Julia Olmos Peñuela and Francisco Javier Ortega-Colomer (University of Valencia)
Biennal meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), 20-25 July 2025, Porto (Portugal). Abstract: Control Regimes on Data (Re)use. From Citations Requests to Authorship Impositions. Co-author: José López (University of Ottawa)
Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH), 19-21 May 2025, Helsinki (Finland). Abstract: Spanish University Endowed Chairs in the Social Economy: Sowing the Seeds of Change?. Co-authors: Francisco Javier Ortega Colomer, Ana García Granero, Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia).
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, 8-11 November 2023, Honolulu (Hawaii). Abstract: Beyond Basic and Applied Research. Target Objects as Complementary Explanations of Science Commercialization. Co-authors: José López (University of Ottawa), Ferran Giones (University of Stuttgart)
R&D Conference "Responsible and Responsive Innovation for a Better Future" , 18-21 June 2023, Sevilla (Spain). Abstract: Start-up coaching: what does it add to societal impact of research? Co-authors: Christopher Hayter (Georgia Institute of Technology), José López (University of Ottawa)
Eu-SPRI 2021 Annual Conference “Science and innovation – an uneasy relationship? Rethinking the roles and relations of STI policies”, 9-11 June 2021, Olso (Norway). Abstract: “I did not write it on the grant application”: Unexpected societal impact. Co-author: Julia Olmos-Peñuela (University of Valencia)
Evaluating knowledge transfer and impact: metrics, procedures and governance for science and innovation, 12-13 December 2019, Córdoba (Spain). Abstract: Between the Scyilla of Rigour and the Charybdis of Relevance: management scholars negotiating tricky knowledge transfer tides. Co-authors: Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Paul Benneworth (RIP)
The Third Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH), 19-20 September 2019, Valencia (Spain). Abstract: Open research behaviour in management studies: an ideal honoured more in the breach than in the observance. Co-authors: Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Paul Benneworth (RIP), Ignacio Fernández de Lucio
XIII Congreso Español de Sociología, 3-6 July 2019, Valencia (Spain). Abstract: Opening the black box of the reuse of research data (Co-author: José López). Abstract: A relational framework for analyzing the reuse of research data. Co-authors: Pablo D'Este, José López
Eu-SPRI 2019 Conference Science Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development Goals. 5-7 June 2019, Rome (Italy). Abstract: The backstage pseudo-infrastructure of Open Data in molecular biology: reflections for science policy. Co-author: José López
Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference, 17-19 October 2018, Valencia (Spain). Abstract: “Data for sale!” Commercializing data for obtaining rewards. Co-author: José López
12th RES Users’ Conference and 7th HPC Advisory Council Conference, 20-21 September 2018, RES, Valencia (Spain). Attendance.
13th International Digital Curation Conference, 20-21 February 2018, DCC, Barcelona (Spain). Attendance.
Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC): "Science, Innovation and the University: keys to social impact", April 2016, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV). Valencia (Spain). Attendance.
6th Plenary Meeting of RDA, 22-25 September 2015, Paris (France). Poster presentation (hand made. See at the bottom of my blog). Presentation.
Member of Round Table at the Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science. Training young researchers. Foster Event. October 2014. UPV, Valencia (Spain). Presentation.
59th Annual Conference of the Michigan Archival Association. Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA), June 19-21, 2013. Attendance.
National Conference on Managing Electronic Records (MER). Chicago, Illinois (USA) May 20-22, 2013. Attendance.
Accepted, but resigned
10th International Research Conference on Social Economy (CIRIEC), 27-29 October 2025, Bordeaux (France). Abstract: Spanish University Endowed Chairs in the Social Economy: Drivers for Transformation? Co-authors: Francisco Javier Ortega Colomer, Ana García Granero, Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia).
29th Annual International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI ENID), 3-5 September 2025, Bristol (UK). Organized Special Session: Carrots and Sticks in the Evaluation of (Open) Data Sharing. Co-organizers: Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia), Nicolás Robinsón García (University of Granada).
5th ISA Forum of Sociology, 6-11 July 2025, Rabat (Morocco). Abstract: "Why Should Data Sharing (Not) be Rewarded?". Session: Reform Movements in Science: Changing Research Cultures for the ‘Better’?
Eu-SPRI 2023. "Research with Impact", 14-16 June 2023, Brighton (UK). Abstract: “How can I make a difference in the world?” Reflecting on impactful research with the seventh art. Co-authors: Ferran Giones, Kathrin Lichius, José López, Mª Francisca Petit, Andreas Wahl, Mia-Celine Zsohar.
EASST 2022. "Politics of technoscientific futures", 6-9 July 2022, Madrid (Spain). Panel 64. Abstract: What is written in a DMP will never be simply “what will happen”. Co-author: José López
Organized
Gender, Modernities and the Global Enlightenment (CIRGEN's conference, ERC AdG #787015), 23-25 February 2022, Valencia (Spain).
Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC 2018) “Science, Technology and Innovation: New challenges and practices”, 3-5 May 2018, Valencia (Spain).
EurKind GWC 2016, 22-24 June 2016, Valencia (Spain).
Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC 2016). “Science, Innovation and the University: keys to social impact”. April 2016, Valencia (Spain).
Workshop on Medical Innovation WOMI’15. December 2015, Valencia (Spain).
1st International Workshop on Open Research Data. 21 and 23 October, 2014. UPV (Valencia, Spain).
Is a video worth a thousand words at the International Criminal Court? Videos by citizen journalists as evidence of human rights violations, 2014. Unpublished.
The memory of the battle of Almansa: an enduring counter-memory, 2013. Unpublished.
Book review: Margalit, A (2002). The ethics of memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2013. Unpublished.