I am Pedro Lázaro Rodríguez. In this webpage you can find information regarding my teaching, research and its impact, contact and my blog.
I have a Ph.D. in Social Sciences by the University of Granada (Spain) and my research is focused on Information and Scientific Communication. I work as an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. As a researcher, I am a member of INFOBISOC, a research group on Information, Libraries and Society. As well, I collaborate with Secaba Lab (University of Granada) keeping up to date the tool Secaba-Rank that I developed and implemented during my Ph.D. On the other hand, I have just become the Deputy Editor of RIBES, a Spanish scientific journal on libraries, education and society.
You can find me on the UCM Scientific Production Portal, ORCID, Open Science Framework, Google Scholar, Scopus, WOS, Mastodon, TubEdu, Codeberg, and on my blog.
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In the current academic year I am teaching 3 courses of the Degree in Library Sciences (Complutense University):
During the last years I have taught several courses:
My main research line is the evaluation of libraries. Currently, I am also focusing my research on Communication and Media Studies. You can find listed below my:
I have co-authored some reports analyzing the quality of libraries based on LibQUAL and "ad hoc" surveys. We carried out studies for some public and university libraries such as:
Please, if you want me to review a manuscript, consider that I took the pledge of "No free view? No review!", and I "will avoid serving as peer reviewer for venues that do not make publicly available the research that I review".
Here you can find information regarding the social impact of my research:
And here a brief sketch of the scientific/academic impact of my research (updated: November 9th 2023):
Please, if you need any further information, feel free to contact me at:
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