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09/07/2022
How reliable are unsupervised author disambiguation algorithms in the assessment of research organization performance?
The paper examines extent of bias in the performance rankings of researc...
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03/27/2021
A comparison of two approaches for measuring interdisciplinary research output: the disciplinary diversity of authors vs the disciplinary diversity of the reference list
This study investigates the convergence of two bibliometric approaches t...
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03/27/2021
Gender differences in research performance within and between countries: Italy vs Norway
In this study, the scientific performance of Italian and Norwegian unive...
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03/26/2021
A novel methodology to assess the scientific standing of nations at field level
The formulation of national research policies would benefit greatly from...
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03/26/2021
Collecting large-scale publication data at the level of individual researchers: A practical proposal for author name disambiguation
The disambiguation of author names is an important and challenging task ...
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03/26/2021
Does the geographic proximity effect on knowledge spillovers vary across research fields?
Policy makers are interested in the influence of geographic distance on ...
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03/26/2021
Predicting the future success of scientific publications through social network and semantic analysis
Citations acknowledge the impact a scientific publication has on subsequ...
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03/25/2021
Knowledge spillovers: does the geographic proximity effect decay over time? A discipline-level analysis, accounting for cognitive proximity, with and without self-citations
This work analyzes the variation over time of the effect of geographic d...
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03/25/2021
Informed peer review for publication assessments: Are improved impact measures worth the hassle?
In this work we ask whether and to what extent applying a predictor of p...
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03/25/2021
The domestic localization of knowledge flows as evidenced by publication citation: The case of Italy
This work applies a new approach to measure knowledge flows. Assuming th...
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03/25/2021
On the relation between the degree of internationalization of cited and citing publications: A field level analysis, including and excluding self-citations
The growing complexity of scientific challenges demands increasingly int...
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02/10/2021
Do the propensity and drivers of academics' engagement in research collaboration with industry vary over time?
This study is about public-private research collaboration. In particular...
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02/10/2021
Gendered impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research production: a cross-country analysis
The massive shock of the COVID-19 pandemic is already showing its negati...
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02/10/2021
The effects of citation-based research evaluation schemes on self-citation behavior
We investigate the changes in the self-citation behavior of Italian prof...
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02/10/2021
The different responses of universities to introduction of performance-based research funding
Governments and organizations design performance-based research funding ...
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11/16/2020
A bibliometric methodology to unveil territorial inequities in the scientific wealth to combat COVID-19
In this paper we develop a methodology to assess the scientific wealth o...
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04/16/2020
Unveiling the distinctive traits of a nation's research performance: the case of Italy and Norway
In this study we are analysing the research performance of Italian and N...
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02/03/2020
The role of geographic proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature
This paper analyses the influence of geographic distance on knowledge fl...
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09/19/2019
The balance of knowledge flows
In analogy to the technology balance of payments, in this paper we propo...
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09/19/2019
Predicting long-term publication impact through a combination of early citations and journal impact factor
The ability to predict the long-term impact of a scientific article soon...
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09/18/2019
The collaboration behavior of top scientists
The intention of this work is to analyze top scientists' collaboration b...
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09/18/2019
Testing for universality of Mendeley readership distributions
Altmetrics promise useful support for assessing the impact of scientific...
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09/13/2019
A nation's foreign and domestic professors: which have better research performance? (The Italian case)
This work investigates the research performance of foreign faculty in th...
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09/13/2019
Peer review vs bibliometrics: which method better predicts the scholarly impact of publications?
In this work, we try to answer the question of which method, peer review...
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09/13/2019
Diversification versus specialization in scientific research: which strategy pays off?
The current work addresses a theme previously unexplored in the literatu...
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07/03/2019
Comparison of research productivity of Italian and Norwegian professors and universities
This is the first ever attempt of application in a country other than It...
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06/03/2019
A gender analysis of top scientists' collaboration behavior: evidence from Italy
This work analyzes the differences in collaboration behavior between mal...
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05/07/2019
Authorship analysis of specialized vs diversified research output
The present work investigates the relations between amplitude and type o...
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12/21/2018
Identifying interdisciplinarity through the disciplinary classification of co-authors of scientific publications
The growing complexity of challenges involved in scientific progress dem...
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12/21/2018
Specialization vs diversification in research activities: the extent, intensity and relatedness of field diversification by individual scientists
We investigate whether and in what measure scientists tend to diversify ...
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12/21/2018
Gender bias in academic recruitment
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the academic systems...
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12/21/2018
The alignment of public research supply and industry demand for effective technology transfer: the case of Italy
Italy lags quite behind vis-a'-vis other industrialized countries, in pu...
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12/21/2018
Measuring science: irresistible temptations, easy shortcuts and dangerous consequences
In benchmarking international research, although publication and citatio...
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12/20/2018
A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments
National exercises for the evaluation of research activity by universiti...
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12/20/2018
The collaboration behaviors of scientists in Italy: a field level analysis
The analysis of research collaboration by field is traditionally conduct...
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12/20/2018
Individual research performance: a proposal for comparing apples to oranges
The evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental ...
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12/20/2018
Assessing the accuracy of the h and g indexes for measuring researchers' productivity
Bibliometric indicators are increasingly used in support of decisions fo...
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12/20/2018
A new bibliometric approach to assess the scientific specialization of regions
The objective of the current work is to identify the territorial scienti...
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12/20/2018
The measurement of italian universities' research productivity by a non parametric-bibliometric methodology
This paper presents a methodology for measuring the technical efficiency...
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12/19/2018
Gender differences in research productivity: a bibliometric analysis of the Italian academic system
The literature dedicated to analysis of the difference in research produ...
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12/19/2018
Research collaboration and productivity: is there correlation?
The incidence of extramural collaboration in academic research activitie...
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12/19/2018
Assessing technical and cost efficiency of research activities: A case study of the Italian university system
This paper employs data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess both techni...
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12/19/2018
Allocative efficiency in public research funding:can bibliometrics help?
The use of outcome control modes of research evaluation exercises is eve...
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12/19/2018
Mapping excellence in national research systems: the case of Italy
The study of the concept of "scientific excellence" and the methods for ...
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11/21/2018
University-industry collaboration in Italy: a bibliometric examination
This work investigates public-private research collaboration between Ita...
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11/21/2018
The contribution of star scientists to overall sex differences in research productivity
The state of the art on the issue of sex differences in research efficie...
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11/21/2018
A Decision Support System for Public Research Organizations Participating in National Research Assessment Exercises
We are witnessing a rapid trend towards the adoption of exercises for ev...
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11/05/2018
Testing the trade-off between productivity and quality in research activities
In recent years there has been an increasingly pressing need for the eva...
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11/05/2018
Assessing public-private research collaboration: is it possible to compare university performance?
It is widely recognized that collaboration between the public and privat...
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11/05/2018