Blanca Rodríguez Bravo
| Given name | Blanca |
|---|---|
| Family name | Rodríguez Bravo |
| Citation name | Rodríguez-Bravo, B. |
| Date of birth | 1961 |
| Knowledge Domains of expertise | 01 03 06 08 Documentation Science Knowledge Organisation |
| Country of residence | es |
Blanca Rodríguez Bravo is a Full Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of León (Spain), where she has served since 1991 and as a Full Professor since 2019.
Her first line of research is focused on the Organization of Knowledge. In this path, she collaborated with scholars from other universities from Spain and abroad as is the case of her participation in the BITrum-Research Group for the Interdisciplinary Study of Information. She has investigated the processes (Indexing mainly) and the systems of knowledge organisation (Dewey Decimal Classification; Universal Decimal Classification, ontologies, lists of subject headings, taxonomies and thesauri). In 2003, she started another line of research dedicated to information behaviour, the consumption of electronic information, particularly e-journals, the relationship between downloads and citations and the profitability of the investment on big deals from the main publishers. To these aims, she obtained grants for a dozen projects funded by the Spanish government. In 2014, she joined CIBER Research Ltd., the research group led by David Nicholas, participating in projects aimed at the study of habits and practices of scientific communication in the digital society. In 2016, the international team started a line of research that investigated the attitudes and activities of Early Career Researchers regarding scientific communication. In November 2020, a new grant was obtained, to continue delving into this research and learning about the impact of the pandemic. On this occasion, they cooperated with the researchers attached to Carol Tenopir's research group at the University of Tennessee. Since 2023, they investigated the impact of AI on novel researchers. Nowadays she also works in the field of Academic Integrity and ethics with colleagues that belong to the Iberoamerican network of academic integrity.