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Modelling and measuring the dynamics of scientific communication
Lucio-Arias, D.
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2010
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Lucio-Arias, D. (2010). Modelling and measuring the dynamics of scientific communication.
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Acknowledgements
I feel very fortunate to have been able to conduct the research that lead to this book. It was a privilege and an inspiration to work under the supervision of Dr. Loet Leydesdorff, I appreciate the confidence and encouragement that he, together with my promoter, Prof. dr. Stuart Blume, have put on my skills and my work.
The University of Amsterdam and particularly, the Amsterdam School of Communication Research provided a very stimulating environment for the last 4 years. I would like to thank the members of the former Internet PhD Club, Sally Wyatts, Caroline Nevejan, Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Todd Graham, Tony Krijnen, Tamara Witschage, Enrique Gomezallta, and Niels van Doorn, as well as Isabel Awad, Wouter de Nooy, Jochen Peter, Klaus Schonbach, Peter van de Basselaar, Kees Brants, and Yael de Haan for all their encouragement during this time. I am grateful to Maaike Pragsma, Zandra Swier, Ardy Grefhorst, Elske Verkruijsse, and Margriet Smit for their friendly and much needed support. I am very thankful to Yiu Fai Chow, Moniza Waheed, Christian Baden, and Mario Keer for their tolerance, respect and above all their friendship. Special thanks to Mario who was kind enough to translate my summary to Dutch.
Meeting Andrea Scharnhorst upon my arrival in Amsterdam provided the opportunity to be partially involved in exciting intellectual environments like the CREEN project (Critical Events in Evolving Networks) and lately the Knowledge Space Lab project. Special thanks to Andrea for all her invitations as well as to Almila Akdag, Cheng Gao, and Krzysztof Suchecki, to all the participants of CREEN and to the Virtual Knowledge Studio team who have welcomed me during my last months in Amsterdam.
It was gratifying to participate in the “complexity reading club” together with Eleftheria Vasileiadou, Karolina Safarzynska, Gaston Heimeriks, Koen Frenken, and Rafael Gonzalez, it provided a multidisciplinary space of shared interests.
I felt at home at Amsterdam. This would not have been possible without the help, and trust, of Anne-Marie Oostveen and Theo Meijering. I would like to thank the friends that made me feel at home in the Netherlands: Simone, Haiko, Valerie, Tjeerd, Helen, Rogier, Jens, Anna, Leigh, Linda, Jeroen, Marlin, and Henry.
This would not have been possible without the constant support from my family: to my parents: Andres and Maria Cristina and my sister Carolina; and to Cristina Rueda and Jorge Lucio for all their support from the distance. Special thanks to my husband, Rafael, for his motivation and encouragement but specially for his patience and love.
