4 papers
Breaking New Ground, Reinforcing Old Gaps: Gender Disparities in Access to Emerging Research Frontiers
Carolina Biliotti, Luca Verginer, Massimo Riccaboni
This study exploits COVID-19 as an exogenous shock in biomedical research to show how the emergence of an unexpected new research topic exacerbates gender bias in key authorship po…
The Impact of Acquisitions in the Biotechnology Sector on R&D Productivity
Luca Verginer, Massimo Riccaboni
This study examines the effects of acquisitions on the retention and R&D productivity of inventors in the biotech sector, using data from 15,318 inventors involved in 1,375 acquisi…
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientific Research in the Life Sciences
Massimo Riccaboni, Luca Verginer
The COVID-19 outbreak has posed an unprecedented challenge to humanity and science. On the one side, public and private incentives have been put in place to promptly allocate resou…
A network approach to expertise retrieval based on path similarity and credit allocation
Xiancheng Li, Luca Verginer, Massimo Riccaboni +1
With the increasing availability of online scholarly databases, publication records can be easily extracted and analysed. Researchers can promptly keep abreast of others' scientifi…