• B.S. (2001) Cognitive Science at University of California, San Diego
• M.S. (2004) Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Ph.D. (2007) Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Interests:

• digital librarianship, computational sociology, graph theory, network science, government architecture, network metrics, decision support systems, computational governance, social networks, scientometrics, collective intelligence, semantic networks, ontologies, bibliometrics, information science, swarm intelligence, information markets, peer-review process, knowledge engineering, computer architecture, programming languages, theoretical computing, psychometrics, multi-relational networks.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Rodriguez, M.A., Bollen, J., "An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers", Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), in press, Napa Valley, California, ACM, LA-UR-06-2261, October 2008. (noted in Van de Sompel, H., "Technical Solutions: Certification in a Digital Era", Nature, Special Issue on Peer Review Debate, 2006.)
2. Rodriguez M.A., Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., "Automatic Metadata Generation using Associative Networks", Transactions on Information Systems, in press, ISSN: 1046-8188, ACM, LA-UR-06-3445, June 2008.
3. Rodriguez, M.A., Pepe, A., "On the Relationship Between the Structural and Socioacademic Communities of a Coauthorship Network", Journal of Informetrics, volume 2, issue 3, pages 195-201, ISSN: 1751-1577, doi:10.1016/j.joi.2008.04.002, Elsevier, LA-UR-07-8339, July 2008.
4. Rodriguez, M.A., "Grammar-Based Random Walkers in Semantic Networks", Knowledge-Based Systems, in press, ISSN: 0950-7051, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2008.03.030, LA-UR-06-7791, March 2008.
5. Bollen, J., Van de Sompel, H., Rodriguez, M.A., "Towards Usage-Based Impact Metrics: First Results from the MESUR Project", Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ACM/IEEE Computing, June 2008.
6. Watkins, J.H., M.A. Rodriguez, "A Survey of Web-based Collective Decision Making Systems", Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Evolution of Web in AI Environment, eds. R. Nayak and L.C. Jain, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, LA-UR-07-2028, pages 245-279, 2008.
7. Bollen, J., Rodriguez, M.A., Van de Sompel, H., "Journal Status", Scientometrics, volume 69, number 3, pp. 669-687, ISSN: 0138-9130, doi:10.1007/s11192-006-0176-z, Elsevier, LA-UR-05-6466, December 2006. (featured in Nature Feb. 15, 2006) (featured in Complexity Digest 2006.03) (featured in PLOS Medicine June 2006)