Juan Bascur Cifuentes
- Name
- J.P. Bascur Cifuentes MSc
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4077-1024
PhD candidate and member of the QSS research group. His research focuses on machine learning and natural language processing of papers to improve literature searches.
Juan Pablo Bascur is a PhD candidate and member of the Quantitative Science Studies research group at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). His research focuses on machine learning and natural language processing of papers to improve literature searches.
Juan Pablo obtained his M.Sc in Biochemistry at the Andrés Bello National University (UNAB) in Chile. He has been an undergrad researcher at the Center for Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology (CBIB) of UNAB. Also, Juan Pablo has been a researcher of artificial-intelligence-powered writing assistance at a company. He joined the CWTS on September 2018 under the advisory of Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck.
- Bascur Cifuentes J.P. (21 January 2026), Science maps for information retrieval (Dissertatie. Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Waltman L.R. & Verberne S., Eck N.J.P. van.
- Bascur Cifuentes J.P., Verberne S., Eck N.J.P. van & Waltman L.R. (2025), Which topics are best represented by science maps?: An analysis of clustering effectiveness for citation and text similarity networks, Scientometrics 130: 1181-1199.
- Bascur Cifuentes J.P., Costas Comesana R. & Verberne S. (2025), Use of diverse data sources to control which topics emerge in a science map. ArXiv e-prints. arXiv. [working paper].
- Bascur Cifuentes J.P., Verberne S., Eck N.J.P. van & Waltman L. (2025), Which topics are best represented by science maps? : An analysis of clustering effectiveness for citation and text similarity networks, Scientometrics 130: 1181-1199.
- Bascur J., Verberne S., Eck N. van & Waltman L. (2023), Academic information retrieval using citation clusters: in-depth evaluation based on systematic reviews, Scientometrics 128: 2895-2921.
- Ferreira M.R., Bascur Cifuentes J.P. & Costas Comesana R. (2021), Scholars mobility and its impact on the knowledge producers' workforce of European regions. .
- Ferreira M., Bascur J.P. & Costas R. (2021), Scholars mobility and its impact on the knowledge producers' workforce of European regions, ArXiv e-prints : .
- Bascur Cifuentes J.P., Verberne S., Eck N.J.P. & Waltman L.R. (2020), Browsing citation clusters for academic literature search: a simulation study with systematic reviews. Cabanac G., Frommholz I. & Mayr P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval. 10th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval co-located with 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020) 14 April 2020 - 14 April 2020 no. 2591: CEUR-WS.org. 53-65.
- Bascur J.P., Eck N.J. van & Waltman L. (2019), An interactive visual tool for scientific literature search: Proposal and algorithmic specification . European Conference of Information Retrieval 2019 14 April 2019 - 18 April 2019.
- Bascur J.P., Van Eck N.J. & Waltman L. (2019), An interactive visual tool for scientific literature search: Proposal and algorithmic specification. Cabanac G., Frommholz I. & Mayr P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval. 8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval 14 April 2019 - 14 April 2019: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 76-87.