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A bibliometric methodology to unveil territorial inequities in the scientific wealth to combat COVID-19
In this paper we develop a methodology to assess the scientific wealth o...
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Unveiling the distinctive traits of a nation's research performance: the case of Italy and Norway
In this study we are analysing the research performance of Italian and N...
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The role of geographic proximity in knowledge diffusion, measured by citations to scientific literature
This paper analyses the influence of geographic distance on knowledge fl...
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The balance of knowledge flows
In analogy to the technology balance of payments, in this paper we propo...
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Predicting long-term publication impact through a combination of early citations and journal impact factor
The ability to predict the long-term impact of a scientific article soon...
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The collaboration behavior of top scientists
The intention of this work is to analyze top scientists' collaboration b...
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A nation's foreign and domestic professors: which have better research performance? (The Italian case)
This work investigates the research performance of foreign faculty in th...
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Peer review vs bibliometrics: which method better predicts the scholarly impact of publications?
In this work, we try to answer the question of which method, peer review...
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Diversification versus specialization in scientific research: which strategy pays off?
The current work addresses a theme previously unexplored in the literatu...
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Comparison of research productivity of Italian and Norwegian professors and universities
This is the first ever attempt of application in a country other than It...
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A gender analysis of top scientists' collaboration behavior: evidence from Italy
This work analyzes the differences in collaboration behavior between mal...
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Authorship analysis of specialized vs diversified research output
The present work investigates the relations between amplitude and type o...
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Identifying interdisciplinarity through the disciplinary classification of co-authors of scientific publications
The growing complexity of challenges involved in scientific progress dem...
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Specialization vs diversification in research activities: the extent, intensity and relatedness of field diversification by individual scientists
We investigate whether and in what measure scientists tend to diversify ...
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The Technology Transfer of the Italian Public Research System: the Case of the National Research Council of Italy
This paper deals with the technology transfer activities of the main pub...
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Gender bias in academic recruitment
It is well known that women are underrepresented in the academic systems...
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The alignment of public research supply and industry demand for effective technology transfer: the case of Italy
Italy lags quite behind vis-a'-vis other industrialized countries, in pu...
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Measuring science: irresistible temptations, easy shortcuts and dangerous consequences
In benchmarking international research, although publication and citatio...
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A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments
National exercises for the evaluation of research activity by universiti...
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The collaboration behaviors of scientists in Italy: a field level analysis
The analysis of research collaboration by field is traditionally conduct...
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Individual research performance: a proposal for comparing apples to oranges
The evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental ...
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Assessing the accuracy of the h and g indexes for measuring researchers' productivity
Bibliometric indicators are increasingly used in support of decisions fo...
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A new bibliometric approach to assess the scientific specialization of regions
The objective of the current work is to identify the territorial scienti...
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The measurement of italian universities' research productivity by a non parametric-bibliometric methodology
This paper presents a methodology for measuring the technical efficiency...
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Gender differences in research productivity: a bibliometric analysis of the Italian academic system
The literature dedicated to analysis of the difference in research produ...
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Research collaboration and productivity: is there correlation?
The incidence of extramural collaboration in academic research activitie...
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Assessing technical and cost efficiency of research activities: A case study of the Italian university system
This paper employs data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess both techni...
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Allocative efficiency in public research funding:can bibliometrics help?
The use of outcome control modes of research evaluation exercises is eve...
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Mapping excellence in national research systems: the case of Italy
The study of the concept of "scientific excellence" and the methods for ...
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University-industry collaboration in Italy: a bibliometric examination
This work investigates public-private research collaboration between Ita...
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The contribution of star scientists to overall sex differences in research productivity
The state of the art on the issue of sex differences in research efficie...
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A Decision Support System for Public Research Organizations Participating in National Research Assessment Exercises
We are witnessing a rapid trend towards the adoption of exercises for ev...
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Testing the trade-off between productivity and quality in research activities
In recent years there has been an increasingly pressing need for the eva...
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Assessing public-private research collaboration: is it possible to compare university performance?
It is widely recognized that collaboration between the public and privat...
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A robust benchmark for the h- and g-indexes
The use Hirsch's h-index as a joint proxy of the impact and productivity...
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National research assessment exercises: a measure of the distortion of performance rankings when labor input is treated as uniform
Measuring the efficiency of scientific research activity presents critic...
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Citations versus journal impact factor as proxy of quality: Could the latter ever be preferable?
In recent years bibliometricians have paid increasing attention to resea...
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Peer review research assessment: a sensitivity analysis of performance rankings to the share of research product evaluated
In national research assessment exercises that take the peer review appr...
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Are researchers that collaborate more at the international level top performers? An investigation on the Italian university system
The practice of collaboration, and particularly international collaborat...
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National-scale research performance assessment at the individual level
There is an evident and rapid trend towards the adoption of evaluation e...
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The role of information asymmetry in the market for university-industry research collaboration
This study concerns the market for research collaboration between indust...
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The relationship between scientists' research performance and the degree of internationalization of their research
Policy makers, at various levels of governance, generally encourage the ...
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A national-scale cross-time analysis of university research performance
Research policies in the more developed nations are ever more oriented t...
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The dangers of performance-based research funding in non-competitive higher education systems
An increasing number of nations allocate public funds to research instit...
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Evaluating research: from informed peer review to bibliometrics
National research assessment exercises are becoming regular events in ev...
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University-industry research collaboration: a model to assess university capability
Scholars and policy makers recognize that collaboration between industry...
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National research assessment exercises: the effects of changing the rules of the game during the game
National research evaluation exercises provide a comparative measure of ...
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The field-standardized average impact of national research systems compared to world average: the case of Italy
The study presents a time-series analysis of field-standardized average ...
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Research productivity: are higher academic ranks more productive than lower ones?
This work analyses the links between individual research performance and...
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A field-standardized application of DEA to national-scale research assessment of universities
The current work proposes an application of DEA methodology for measurem...
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