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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…
When research assessment exercises leave room for opportunistic behavior by the subjects under evaluation
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This study inserts in the stream of research on the perverse effects that PBRF systems can induce in the subjects evaluated. The authors' opinion is that more often than not, it is…
Variability of research performance across disciplines within universities in non-competitive higher education systems
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
Many nations are adopting higher education strategies that emphasize the development of elite universities able to compete at the international level in the attraction of skills an…
Inefficiency in selecting products for submission to national research assessment exercises
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
One of the critical issues in national research assessment exercises concerns the choice of whether to evaluate the entire scientific portfolio of the institutions or a subset comp…
The effect of a country's name in the title of a publication on its visibility and citability
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The objective of this research is to determine if the reference to a country in the title, keywords or abstract of a publication can influence its visibility (measured by the impac…
Do interdisciplinary research teams deliver higher gains to science?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the impact of research output. Unlike previous studies, in this study t…
The effects of gender, age and academic rank on research diversification
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
In this work we analyze the combined effects of gender, age and academic rank on the propensity of individual scholars to diversify their scientific activity. The aspect of researc…
The effect of multidisciplinary collaborations on research diversification
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Flavia Di Costa
This work verifies whether research diversification by a scientist is in some measure related to their collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. The analysis considers the public…