Training workshops for the 2024-25 course of the
'Your doctoral thesis' itinerary.


Make the most of them, they are for you!


 

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On September 25, 2025, Isidro Aguillo from the Cybermetrics Lab of the CSIC published the beta version of the ranking 'Spanish researchers in Spain and abroad and foreigners in Spanish institutions' with the following inclusion criteria:

• Have a public personal profile on Google Scholar. If you do not have a Spanish postal address or institutional email address, inform the ranking editor (Isidro Aguillo) of the profile URL.
• Clearly link the Google Scholar profile with the UPC through the RoR
• Include the ORCID in your Google Scholar profile, either after your name, under other names, or on your personal page
• Have an ORCID identifier registered with a full name identical to the one used in your Google Scholar profile

• It improves the visibility and impact of an author and the institution.
• It facilitates the dissemination of scientific publications and other academic work.
• Provides information on relevant bibliometric indicators.
• Allows you to verify document citations.
• Offers alerts to stay updated.

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Validate the Data Management Plan for your doctoral thesis with this rubric (Catalan), rubric (English) to verify that it includes all the information necessary to manage research data during the thesis development process.

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The new Document Retrieval Service, integrated into DiscoveryUPC, is now available, which facilitates the  borrowing of books between Catalan university libraries (PUC) and offers free access to journal articles and book chapters from around the world.

You will receive the documents directly to your email in less than 24 hours !

Now, DiscoveryUPC allows you to search and request documents in three different areas:
 

• All UPC: physical and digital documents from the collections of the UPC libraries.
   
• Catalan area (PUC): physical documents available in the libraries of Catalan universities.
   
• International scope: articles and book chapters from the most important libraries in the world that you will receive for free in your email within 24 hours.

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The presentations from the latest Research Café on Ethics and Research Integrity are now available :

Several aspects related to ethics and research integrity were discussed, such as:

• good practices in scientific publishing
• processing of personal and sensitive data
• ethics and integrity of research at the UPC

• Erik Cobo -  Does closed science exist?
• Sergi Abadal -  Publishing responsibly: a view from both sides
• Jordi Cortadella -  The origin of Ethics Committees in research
• Cristina Guzmán -  Personal data management in research

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