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Does the geographic proximity effect on knowledge spillovers vary across research fields?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
Policy makers are interested in the influence of geographic distance on knowledge flows, however these can be expected to vary across research fields. The effects of geographic dis…
Knowledge spillovers: does the geographic proximity effect decay over time? A discipline-level analysis, accounting for cognitive proximity, with and without self-citations
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This work analyzes the variation over time of the effect of geographic distance on knowledge flows. The flows are measured through the citations exchanged between scientific public…
On the relation between the degree of internationalization of cited and citing publications: A field level analysis, including and excluding self-citations
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The growing complexity of scientific challenges demands increasingly intense research collaboration, both domestic and international. The resulting trend affects not only the modes…
The relative impact of private research on scientific advancement
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
Literature about the scholarly impact of scientific research offers very few contributions on private sector research, and the comparison with public sector. In this work, we try t…
The role of geographic proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This paper analyses the influence of geographic distance on knowledge flows, measured through citations to scientific publications. Previous works using the same approach are limit…
The collaboration behavior of top scientists
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The intention of this work is to analyze top scientists' collaboration behavior at the "international", "domestic extramural" and "intramural" levels, and compare it to that of the…
A nation's foreign and domestic professors: which have better research performance? (The Italian case)
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This work investigates the research performance of foreign faculty in the Italian academic system. Incoming professors compose l'1% of total faculty across the sciences, although w…
Diversification versus specialization in scientific research: which strategy pays off?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The current work addresses a theme previously unexplored in the literature: that of whether the results arising from research activity in fields other than the scientist's pri-mary…
A gender analysis of top scientists' collaboration behavior: evidence from Italy
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This work analyzes the differences in collaboration behavior between males and females among a particular type of scholars: top scientists, and as compared to non top scientists. T…
Authorship analysis of specialized vs diversified research output
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The present work investigates the relations between amplitude and type of collaboration (intramural, extramural domestic or international) and output of specialized versus diversif…
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…
A new bibliometric approach to assess the scientific specialization of regions
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The objective of the current work is to identify the territorial scientific specializations present in Italy, at the levels of regions and provinces (NUTS2 and NUTS3). To do this,…
Research collaboration and productivity: is there correlation?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The incidence of extramural collaboration in academic research activities is increasing as a result of various factors. These factors include policy measures aimed at fostering par…
Mapping excellence in national research systems: the case of Italy
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The study of the concept of "scientific excellence" and the methods for its measurement and evaluation is taking on increasing importance in the development of research policies in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
National research assessment exercises: the effects of changing the rules of the game during the game
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
National research evaluation exercises provide a comparative measure of research performance of the nation's institutions, and as such represent a tool for stimulating research pro…
Research productivity: are higher academic ranks more productive than lower ones?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This work analyses the links between individual research performance and academic rank. A typical bibliometric methodology is used to study the performance of all Italian universit…
National research assessment exercises: a comparison of peer review and bibliometrics rankings
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
Development of bibliometric techniques has reached such a level as to suggest their integration or total substitution for classic peer review in the national research assessment ex…
A new approach to measure the scientific strengths of territories
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The current work applies a methodology for mapping the supply of new knowledge from public research organizations, in this case from Italian institutions at the level of regions an…