Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes, MSc

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.

Publications

Conference publications (2)

• Bascur, J.P., Verberne, S., Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2020). Browsing citation clusters for academic literature search: a simulation study with systematic reviews. In G. Cabanac, I. Frommholz, & P. Mayr (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (pp. 53-65). (paper)
• Bascur, J.P., Van Eck, N.J., & Waltman, L. (2019). An interactive visual tool for scientific literature search: Proposal and algorithmic specification. In G. Cabanac, I. Frommholz, & P. Mayr (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (pp. 76-87). (paper)