Distinguished Lecture Series : Evaluation of Sceince, Analysis Tools for Evaluating Science

Enrique Herrera-Viedma was born in Jódar, Spain, in 1969. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Granada, Spain, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada. Furthermore, from 2015 he is the new Vice-President for Research and Knowlegde Transfer in University of Granada. Around 36 of his papers are classed as highly cited papers in Web of Science (WoS) as well as being in the top 1% of the most cited papers in its field (Computer Science and Engineering). His h-index is 62 according to the WoS with more than 14.000 citations received and 75 according to Google Scholar with more than 24.000 citations received. He has recently published in Science [339:6126, p. 1382, 2013] on the new role of the public libraries and he has been identified in the list of Highly Cited Researchers published in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 by Shangai Center and Thomson Reuters in the categories of Engineering and Computer Science, therefore, being considered one of the world’s most influential scientific researchers. He has published more than 200 papers in ISI journals and coordinated more than 20 research projects. Dr. Herrera-Viedma is member of the gobernment board of the IEEE SMC Society and an Associate Editor in important journals related with Artificial Intelligence.