Jose Ramon Saura is Associate Professor (Tenured Pro.) of Digital Marketing in the Business Economics Department at Rey Juan
Carlos University, Madrid (Spain). Previously, he held positions and made consultancy at several companies including Google,
L'Oréal, Deloitte, Telefónica, or MRM//McCann (2011-2015), among others. His research has focused on the theoretical and practical
insights of various aspects of User Generated Content (UGC), with a specific focus around three major research approaches
applied social sciences: user privacy, knowledge discovery and information sciences. He earned an International PhD at Rey
Juan Carlos University in Social Sciences and Law, with research fellowships in RCC at Harvard University and London South
Bank University (LSBU) (2015-2017).
He has been Guest-Editor of numerous Special Issues in Journals such as: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Frontiers
in Psychology, Journal of Indian Business Research (Emerald G.), China Finance Review International (Emerald G.), Applied
Marketing Analytics (Henry Stewart) or the Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (JSOD). He has Editorial Board experience
in Journals like SAGE Open, Marketing and Management of Innovations or the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Research,
among others. He has also coordinated as Editor two academics books in the editorial IGI Global.
His research has appeared in leading international business, marketing and information sciences journals such as: Journal
of Innovation and Knowledge, International Journal of Information Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change,
Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Review of Managerial Sciences, Journal of Small Business Management,
Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Big Data Research, European Research on Management and Business Economics, European
Management Journal, Enterprise Information Systems, IEEE Access, Computers Communication, Technovation, Government Information
Quarterly, among others.