Research

Interests

• Internet economics
• Digital Economy
• World Wide Web
• Digital footprints
• Artificial Ingelligence applications to economics

Updated publication list

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Research project grants

• SME Dynamics: Leveraging the Digital Footprint for Sustainable Futures
  Code: PID2023-152106OB-I00
  Funded by: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (01/09/2024 – 31/08/2027)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 56,250 €
• Digital Footprint of SMEs in the Sustainability Transition
  Code: CIAICO/2023/272
  Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana (01/09/2024 – 31/08/2027)
  Principal Investigators: Domenech, Josep; Debón, Ana
  Grant amount: 90,000 €
• Methodologies for the development of the new SME twin transition monitor for the EU
  Funded by: Joint Research Centre – European Commission (01/03/2023 – 31/03/2024)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 25,200 €
• Convocatoria Beatriz Galindo para la atracción de talento investigador
  Funded by: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (01/09/2023 – 31/08/2027)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 260,000 €
• Seguimiento de las transformaciones productivas en España
  Funded by: Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (01/01/2023 – 31/12/2023)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 16,000 €
• Análisis e impulso a la cultura de la evaluación de las políticas públicas
  Code: S0890000
  Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 30,000 €
• Web-based data from Companies: New approaches and methodologies, scalability, automatization and visualization
  Funded by: Joint Research Centre – European Commission (09/09/2021 – 09/09/2022)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 17,100 €
• Digital Footprint, competitiveness and business demography
  Code: PID2019-107765RB-I00
  Funded by: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (01/06/2020 - 01/06/2023)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 14,641.00 €
• Garantia Juvenil Indicadores Económicos Basados en la Web
  Code: PEJ2018-003267-A-AR
  Funded by: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (04/07/2019 - 04/12/2021)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 47,308.49 €
• Ayuda Garantía Juvenil-Indicadores económicos basados en la web
  Code: GJIDI/2018/A/248
  Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana (15/10/2018 - 15/11/2020)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 48,584.68 €
• Eficiencia económica en planificación y uso de infraestructuras cloud
  Code: TIN2013-43913-R
  Funded by: Ministerio de economía industria y competitividad (01/01/2014 - 01/01/2018)
  Principal Investigators: Domenech, Josep; Pont Sanjuan, Ana
  Grant amount: 89,865.49 €
• Ayuda Contrato FPU 2014-Blazquez Soriano
  Code: AP2014/02386
  Funded by: Ministerio de Educación (01/09/2015 - 01/10/2019)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 79,597.96 €
• Desarrollo de metodologías para la obtención de indicadores web para los sistemas de innovación
  Code: GV/2011/002
  Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana (01/01/2011 - 01/01/2013)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 6,000 €
• Indicadores web para los sistemas sectoriales de innovación
  Code: PAID-06-10-2424
  Funded by: Generalitat Valenciana (01/11/2010 - 01/11/2012)
  Principal Investigator: Domenech, Josep
  Grant amount: 12,000 €

Selected publications

• Scraping innovativeness from corporate websites: Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing SMEs
  C. Bottai, L. Crosato, J. Domenech, M. Guerzoni, C. Liberati
  Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024.

• Digital footprint approach for the study of competitiveness in wineries
  A. Debón, J. Domenech
  Expert Systems with Applications, 2024.

• Addressing Google Trends inconsistencies
  E. Cebrián, J. Domenech
  Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024.

• Measuring the popularity of football players with Google Trends
  P. Malagón-Selma, A. Debón, J. Domenech
  Plos One, 2023.

• Websites’ data: a new asset for enhancing credit risk modeling
  L. Crosato, J. Domenech, C. Liberati
  Annals of Operations Research, 2023.

• Going online: forecasting the impact of websites on productivity and market structure
  M. Rizov, M. Vecchi, J. Domenech
  Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022.

• Is Google Trends a quality data source?
  E. Cebrián, J. Domenech
  Applied Economics Letters, 2023.

• Predicting SME’s default: Are their websites informative?
  L. Crosato, J. Domenech, C. Liberati
  Economics Letters, 2021.

• Monitoring E-commerce Adoption from Online Data
  D. Blazquez, J. Domenech, J. A. Gil, A. Pont
  Knowledge and Information Systems, 2019.

• Assessing Technology Platforms for Sustainability with Web Data Mining Techniques
  D. Blazquez, J. Domenech, J.-M. Garcia-Alvarez-Coque.
  Sustainability, 2018.

• Do corporate websites’ changes reflect firms’ survival?
  D. Blazquez, J. Domenech, A. Debon
  Online Information Review, 2018.

• Big Data sources and methods for social and economic analyses
  D. Blazquez, J. Domenech
  Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018.

• Web data mining for monitoring business export orientation
  D. Blazquez, J. Domenech
  Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2018.

• A Methodology for Economic Evaluation of Cloud-Based Web Applications
  J. Domenech, R. Peña-Ortiz, J.A. Gil, A. Pont
  International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 2016.

• Inferring Export Orientation from Corporate Websites
  D. Blazquez, J. Domenech
  Applied Economics Letters, 2014.

• Location and Adoption of ICT Innovations in the agri-food industry
  J. Domenech, V. Martinez-Gomez, F. Mas-Verdu
  Applied Economics Letters, 2014.

• An intelligent system for retrieving economic information from corporate websites
  J. Domenech, B. de la Ossa, A. Pont, J. A. Gil, M. Martinez, A. Rubio
  Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2012.

Patents

• Method for reducing web page download time
  J. Domenech, J.A Gil, A. Pont, J. Sahuquillo
  WO/2009/071718

Thesis Advisor

• Big Data Sources Applied to Rural Tourism
  Author: Eduardo Cebrián (2024)
  Grade: Sobresaliente (cum laude).
• Design and Evaluation of Web-Based Economic Indicators: A Big Data Analysis Approach
  Author: Desamparados Blázquez Soriano (2019)
  Grade: Sobresaliente (cum laude). Outstanding Doctoral Award. International mention.
• Emprendimiento en El Salvador: La Inseguridad ciudadana como barrera
  Author: Pablo Pinazo Dallenbach (2016)
  Grade: Sobresaliente (cum laude)

Membership of International Committees

• Regular scientific committee member of indexed international conferences, such as the IEEE/ACM/WIC Web Intelligence, and the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM) since 2009.
• Founder of two international conferences:
  • International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA)
    General Chair of 1st to 4th, and 6th editions. Some proceedings are indexed in Web of Science.
  • International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd)
    General Chair of 1st to 11th editions, attracting around 250 participants annually (75% international). Proceedings are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science-Conference Citation Proceedings Index.
• Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET) (2007–2016).
• Guest editor for the Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity; and the Italian Economic Journal. Publication chair for IFIP Networking (2011, 2012) and IFIP Wireless Days (2013, 2014).
• Reviewer of research projects for:
  • European Research Executive Agency (REA)
  • National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA)
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  • German Research Foundation (DFG)