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- Sapienza University of RomeIT416 papers
- Institute for Complex SystemsIT322 papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR227 papers
- University of Rome Tor VergataIT202 papers
- University of PisaIT173 papers
- University of FlorenceIT157 papers
- Istituto Officina dei MaterialiIT150 papers
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi AvanzatiIT135 papers
- National Institute of OpticsIT122 papers
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareIT117 papers
- Politecnico di MilanoIT111 papers
- Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica Antonio RubertiIT103 papers
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Gender bias in academic recruitment
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the academic systems of many countries. Gender discrimination is one of the factors that could contribute to this phenomenon. Th…
Specialization vs diversification in research activities: the extent, intensity and relatedness of field diversification by individual scientists
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
We investigate whether and in what measure scientists tend to diversify their research activity, and if this tendency varies according to their belonging to different disciplinary…
Identifying interdisciplinarity through the disciplinary classification of co-authors of scientific publications
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The growing complexity of challenges involved in scientific progress demands ever more frequent application of competencies and knowledge from different scientific fields. The pres…
Assessing the accuracy of the h and g indexes for measuring researchers' productivity
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Fulvio Viel
Bibliometric indicators are increasingly used in support of decisions for recruitment, career advancement, rewarding and selective funding for scientists. Given the importance of t…
A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments
Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giovanni Abramo
National exercises for the evaluation of research activity by universities are becoming regular practice in ever more countries. These exercises have mainly been conducted through…
The collaboration behaviors of scientists in Italy: a field level analysis
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Gianluca Murgia
The analysis of research collaboration by field is traditionally conducted beginning with the classification of the publications from the context of interest. In this work we propo…
Individual research performance: a proposal for comparing apples to oranges
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
The evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental importance in informing management decisions. The literature provides various indicators and types of measur…
The measurement of italian universities' research productivity by a non parametric-bibliometric methodology
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Fabio Pugini
This paper presents a methodology for measuring the technical efficiency of research activities. It is based on the application of data envelopment analysis to bibliometric data on…
University-industry collaboration in Italy: a bibliometric examination
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa +1
This work investigates public-private research collaboration between Italian universities and domestic industry, applying a bibliometric type of approach. The study is based on an…
A Decision Support System for Public Research Organizations Participating in National Research Assessment Exercises
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
We are witnessing a rapid trend towards the adoption of exercises for evaluation of national research systems, generally based on the peer review approach. They respond to two main…
Testing the trade-off between productivity and quality in research activities
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
In recent years there has been an increasingly pressing need for the evaluation of results from public sector research activity, particularly to permit the efficient allocation of…
Assessing public-private research collaboration: is it possible to compare university performance?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Marco Solazzi
It is widely recognized that collaboration between the public and private research sectors should be stimulated and supported, as a means of favoring innovation and regional develo…
A robust benchmark for the h- and g-indexes
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Fulvio Viel
The use Hirsch's h-index as a joint proxy of the impact and productivity of a scientist's research work continues to gain ground, accompanied by the efforts of bibliometrists to re…
National research assessment exercises: a measure of the distortion of performance rankings when labor input is treated as uniform
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Marco Solazzi
Measuring the efficiency of scientific research activity presents critical methodological aspects, many of which have not been sufficiently studied. Although many studies have asse…
Citations versus journal impact factor as proxy of quality: Could the latter ever be preferable?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
In recent years bibliometricians have paid increasing attention to research evaluation methodological problems, among these being the choice of the most appropriate indicators for…
Peer review research assessment: a sensitivity analysis of performance rankings to the share of research product evaluated
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Fulvio Viel
In national research assessment exercises that take the peer review approach, research organizations are evaluated on the basis of a subset of their scientific production. The dime…
Are researchers that collaborate more at the international level top performers? An investigation on the Italian university system
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Marco Solazzi
The practice of collaboration, and particularly international collaboration, is becoming ever more widespread in scientific research, and is likewise receiving greater interest and…
National-scale research performance assessment at the individual level
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
There is an evident and rapid trend towards the adoption of evaluation exercises for national research systems for purposes, among others, of improving allocative efficiency in pub…
The role of information asymmetry in the market for university-industry research collaboration
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa +1
This study concerns the market for research collaboration between industry and universities. It presents an analysis of the population of all Italian university-industry collaborat…
The relationship between scientists' research performance and the degree of internationalization of their research
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Marco Solazzi
Policy makers, at various levels of governance, generally encourage the development of research collaboration. However the underlying determinants of collaboration are not complete…
A national-scale cross-time analysis of university research performance
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
Research policies in the more developed nations are ever more oriented towards the introduction of productivity incentives and competition mechanisms intended to increase efficienc…
The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems
Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
An increasing number of nations allocate public funds to research institutions on the basis of rankings obtained from national evaluation exercises. Therefore, in non-competitive h…
Evaluating research: from informed peer review to bibliometrics
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo
National research assessment exercises are becoming regular events in ever more countries. The present work contrasts the peer-review and bibliometrics approaches in the conduct of…
University-industry research collaboration: a model to assess university capability
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
Scholars and policy makers recognize that collaboration between industry and the public research institutions is a necessity for innovation and national economic development. This…