Nora Escribano Compains- PhD in Biology from the University of Navarra- has been awarded the first award for the best scientific poster in the first edition of the congress Biodiversity_Nextheld in Leiden (The Netherlands) from October 20 to 25.

Escribano's project , degree scroll "Game of Tops: Trends in GBIF's Community of Users", analyzes the work of research using data on biodiversity provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Infrastructure (GBIF), whose main goal is to make freely accessible data on this subject.

"In this research we have analyzed a database that gathers all the information on research that has been done using data available through GBIF. These documents can range from scientific articles, technical reports, communications to congresses and books," says Nora Escribano, a former student at the University of Navarra.  

Dr. Escribano's goal in this work has been to know the evolution of research in biodiversity and to try to predict where this science is heading. The data analysis has allowed her to know, for example, the authorship of the research, which organizations they belong to, in which journals they decide to publish the papers, what are the publication preferences over time, or what is the scientific production of each country, among other issues. "The metadata of scientific articles give you a lot of information about the behavior and choices of researchers over time," adds Escribano.

Biodiversity_Next is an international lecture that brings together scientists and international organizations with the goal to discuss the biodiversity and intensive geodiversity of data. Nora Escribano obtains this award in this worldwide congress in which 66 posters have been presented and whose deliberation was made by popular vote among the attendees to the event.