4 papers
The ratio of top scientists to the academic staff as an indicator of the competitive strength of universities
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Anastasiia Soldatenkova
The ability to attract and retain talented professors is a distinctive competence of world-class universities and a source of competitive advantage. The ratio of top scientists to…
The dispersion of the citation distribution of top scientists' publications
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Anastasiia Soldatenkova
This work explores the distribution of citations for the publications of top scientists. A first objective is to find out whether the 80-20 Pareto rule applies, that is if 80% of t…
How long do top scientists maintain their stardom? An analysis by region, gender and discipline: evidence from Italy
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Anastasiia Soldatenkova
We investigate the question of how long top scientists retain their stardom. We observe the research performance of all Italian professors in the sciences over three consecutive fo…
An investigation on the skewness patterns and fractal nature of research productivity distributions at field and discipline level
Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo, Anastasiia Soldatenkova
The paper provides an empirical examination of how research productivity distributions differ across scientific fields and disciplines. Productivity is measured using the FSS indic…