Giovanni Abramo

Do all citations value the same? Valuing citations by the value of the citing items

Bibliometricians have long recurred to citation counts to measure the im...
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The determinants of academic career advancement: evidence from Italy

In this work we investigate the determinants of professors' career advan...
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An investigation on the skewness patterns and fractal nature of research productivity distributions at field and discipline level

The paper provides an empirical examination of how research productivity...
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Who benefits from a country's scientific research?

When a publication is cited it generates a benefit. Through the country ...
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The effect of multidisciplinary collaborations on research diversification

This work verifies whether research diversification by a scientist is in...
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The relationship among research productivity, research collaboration, and their determinants

This work provides an in-depth analysis of the relation between the diff...
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The effects of gender, age and academic rank on research diversification

In this work we analyze the combined effects of gender, age and academic...
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Do interdisciplinary research teams deliver higher gains to science?

The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze ...
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On tit for tat: Franceschini and Maisano versus ANVUR regarding the Italian research assessment exercise VQR 2011-2014

The response by Benedetto, Checchi, Graziosi & Malgarini (2017) (hereaft...
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Does your surname affect the citability of your publications?

Prior investigations have offered contrasting results on a troubling que...
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How long do top scientists maintain their stardom? An analysis by region, gender and discipline: evidence from Italy

We investigate the question of how long top scientists retain their star...
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Refrain from adopting the combination of citation and journal metrics to grade publications, as used in the Italian national research assessment exercise (VQR 2011-2014)

The prediction of the long-term impact of a scientific article is challe...
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The north-south divide in the Italian higher education system

This work examines whether the macroeconomic divide between northern and...
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The dispersion of the citation distribution of top scientists' publications

This work explores the distribution of citations for the publications of...
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A comparison of university performance scores and ranks by MNCS and FSS

In a previous article of ours, we explained the reasons why the MNCS and...
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The effect of a country's name in the title of a publication on its visibility and citability

The objective of this research is to determine if the reference to a cou...
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A farewell to the MNCS and like size-independent indicators

The arguments presented demonstrate that the Mean Normalized Citation Sc...
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From rankings to funnel plots: the question of accounting for uncertainty when measuring university research performance

The work applies the funnel plot methodology to measure and visualize un...
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The combined effects of age and seniority on research performance of full professors

In this work we examine the relationship between research performance, a...
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The ratio of top scientists to the academic staff as an indicator of the competitive strength of universities

The ability to attract and retain talented professors is a distinctive c...
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A methodology to measure the effectiveness of academic recruitment and turnover

We propose a method to measure the effectiveness of the recruitment and ...
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Funnel plots for visualizing uncertainty in the research performance of institutions

Research performance values are not certain. Performance indexes should ...
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Selection committees for academic recruitment: does gender matter?

Underrepresentation of women in the academic system is a problem common ...
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Accounting for gender research performance differences in ranking universities

The literature on the theme of gender differences in research performanc...
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An assessment of the first "scientific accreditation" for university appointments in Italy

Nations with non-competitive higher education systems and with high leve...
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Evaluating university research: same performance indicator, different rankings

Assessing the research performance of multi-disciplinary institutions, w...
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Ranking research institutions by the number of highly-cited articles per scientist

In the literature and on the Web we can readily find research excellence...
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How do you define and measure research productivity?

Productivity is the quintessential indicator of efficiency in any produc...
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A multivariate stochastic model to assess research performance

There is a worldwide trend towards application of bibliometric research ...
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Should the research performance of scientists be distinguished by gender?

The literature on gender differences in research performance seems to su...
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Assessing national strengths and weaknesses in research fields

National policies aimed at fostering the effectiveness of scientific sys...
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Relatives in the same university faculty: nepotism or merit?

In many countries culture, practice or regulations inhibit the co-presen...
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Are the authors of highly cited articles also the most productive ones?

Ever more frequently, governments have decided to implement policy measu...
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Variability of research performance across disciplines within universities in non-competitive higher education systems

Many nations are adopting higher education strategies that emphasize the...
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Career advancement and scientific performance in universities

Many governments have placed priority on excellence in higher education ...
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Inefficiency in selecting products for submission to national research assessment exercises

One of the critical issues in national research assessment exercises con...
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The suitability of h and g indexes for measuring the research performance of institutions. Scientometrics, 97(3), 555-570

It is becoming ever more common to use bibliometric indicators to evalua...
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Measuring institutional research productivity for the life sciences: the importance of accounting for the order of authors in the byline

Accurate measurement of institutional research productivity should accou...
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When research assessment exercises leave room for opportunistic behavior by the subjects under evaluation

This study inserts in the stream of research on the perverse effects tha...
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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

Accurate measurement of research productivity should take account of bot...
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National peer-review research assessment exercises for the hard sciences can be a complete waste of money: the Italian case

There has been ample demonstration that bibliometrics is superior to pee...
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The relationship between the number of authors of a publication, its citations and the impact factor of the publishing journal: Evidence from Italy

Empirical evidence shows that co-authored publications achieve higher vi...
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The VQR, Italy's second national research assessment: Methodological failures and ranking distortions

The 2004-2010 VQR, completed in July 2013, was Italy's second national r...
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How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?

Because of the variations in citation behavior across research fields, a...
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The impact of unproductive and top researchers on overall university research performance

Unlike competitive higher education systems, non-competitive systems sho...
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A new approach to measure the scientific strengths of territories

The current work applies a methodology for mapping the supply of new kno...
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A methodology to compute the territorial productivity of scientists: The case of Italy

Policy-makers working at the national and regional levels could find the...
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Variation in research collaboration patterns across academic ranks

The ability to activate and manage effective collaborations is becoming ...
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The spin-off of elite universities in non-competitive, undifferentiated higher education systems: an empirical simulation in Italy

Higher education systems featuring intense competition have developed wo...
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Gender differences in research collaboration

The debate on the role of women in the academic world has focused on var...
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