AstronNET Project

AstroNET was an early stage of my research programme on scientific networks, developed during my Master's and PhD research. Using astronomy as an empirical setting, the project examined how scientific collaboration, communities, and systems of knowledge are organised through networks.

This work provided the basis for my subsequent research on the co-evolution of social and intellectual structures, scientific specialties, and multilevel scientific fields.

Funding from 2017-2021: CONICYT PFCHA/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2017 – 72180242.
Funding from 2017: Funding for undertaking the project “Professional Advice for Lifting Information from Key Actors and Making a Prospective Analysis of Astroinformatics” for the Scientific Council of the Astro-Informatic program of the Minister of Economy, funded by the Chilean Association of Information and Technology Companies A.G. (ACTI), Smart Industry Program and the Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO)
Funding from 2013-2014: PCHA/Magíster Nacional/2013-50280.

Atacama Large Millimiter/submillimiter Array (ALMA) Period

Espinosa-Rada, Alejandro (2026). Network Positions within Scholars and Intellectual Networks. Journal of Informetrics, 20(3), 101854. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101854
Espinosa-Rada, Alejandro; Lerner, Jürgen & Fritz, Cornelius (2025). Socio-cognitive Networks between Researchers: Investigating Scientific Dualities with the Group-Oriented Relational Hyperevent Model. Social Networks, 83, 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2025.04.005
Espinosa-Rada, Alejandro; Bellotti, Elisa; Everett, Martin & Stadtfeld, Christoph (2024). Co-evolution of a Socio-Cognitive Scientific Network: A Case Study of Citation Dynamics Among Astronomers. Social Networks, 78, 92-108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2023.11.008
Espinosa-Rada, Alejandro (2021). A Network Approach for the Sociological Study of Science and Knowledge [PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester]. Chapters 2 and 3.
Espinosa, Alejandro (2015). Asignación de científicos en el observatorio astronómico Atacama Large Millimeter/SubmillimeterArray (ALMA): Lógica virtual, sociomaterialidad y régimen de control en la ciencia. Persona y Sociedad, 29(2), 45–66. https://doi.org/10.53689/pys.v29i2.88
Espinosa Rada, Alejandro (2015). La Productividad y la Colaboración en el Reconocimiento Científico de los Astrónomos de Chile [Ma Thesis]. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory (aka Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)) Period

Espinosa-Rada, Alejandro (2021). A Network Approach for the Sociological Study of Science and Knowledge [PhD Thesis, The University of Manchester]. Chapter 4.
Espinosa-Rada, Alejandro; Ortiz Ruiz, Francisca & Cereceda-Lorca, Trinidad (2019). Astroinformática y prospección de la astronomía chilena: Sub-disciplina en el escenario global y desarrollo científicolocal. Cultura-Hombre-Sociedad, 29(1), 276–305. https://doi.org/10.7770/cuhso-v29n1-art1707
Mecanismos Sociales Ltda. (2017). Asesoría profesional para levantar información desde actores clave y hacer un análisis prospectivo de la astroinformática.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Espinosa Rada, Alejandro (2014). “Differentiation in Astronomy: Self-Description and Heliocentric Conception in the Horizon of the World Society”. Revista Mad – Universidad de Chile, 31, 60-72. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5354/rmad.v0i31.32959

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