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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…
The importance of accounting for the number of co-authors and their order when assessing research performance at the individual level in the life sciences
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
Accurate measurement of research productivity should take account of both the number of co-authors of every scientific work and of the different contributions of the individuals. F…
Selection committees for academic recruitment: does gender matter?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
Underrepresentation of women in the academic system is a problem common to many countries, often associated with gender discrimination. In the Italian academic context in particula…
Relatives in the same university faculty: nepotism or merit?
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
In many countries culture, practice or regulations inhibit the co-presence of relatives within the university faculty. We test the legitimacy of such attitudes and provisions, inve…
Career advancement and scientific performance in universities
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
Many governments have placed priority on excellence in higher education as part of their policy agendas. Processes for recruitment and career advancement in universities thus have…
Measuring institutional research productivity for the life sciences: the importance of accounting for the order of authors in the byline
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
Accurate measurement of institutional research productivity should account for the real contribution of the research staff to the output produced in collaboration with other organi…
A methodology to measure the effectiveness of academic recruitment and turnover
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
We propose a method to measure the effectiveness of the recruitment and turnover of professors, in terms of their research performance. The method presented is applied to the case…
The north-south divide in the Italian higher education system
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
This work examines whether the macroeconomic divide between northern and southern Italy is also present at the level of higher education. The analysis confirms that the research pe…
The determinants of academic career advancement: evidence from Italy
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Rosati
In this work we investigate the determinants of professors' career advancement in Italian universities. From the analyses, it emerges that the fundamental determinant of an academi…