Background Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the
publisher's version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on …

L'avvento e la diffusione su scala planetaria delle reti telematiche (Internet e il World Wide
Web) hanno radicalmente trasformato le modalità di comunicazione. La rete, intesa sia …

In recent years, statistical methods such as bibliometrics have increasingly intensified to
analyse books, articles, and other publications. Bibliometric methods, as techniques to …

La valutazione della ricerca è un tema fondamentale per il mondo accademico, coinvolge le
istituzioni universitarie ei singoli ricercatori. Per questi ultimi vale il meccanismo del publish …

Reflections on the bibliometric evaluation of research and a proposal: the real impact factor
The recent exercise of Evaluation of Quality and Research boosted by the Italian Agency for …

Food production and consumption account for a significant share of the impact of various
pressing and important environmental concerns such as climate change, eutrophication …

Quando negli anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso Eugene Garfield mise a punto il Citation
Index (Garfield 1955, 2006; Garfield, Sher e Torpie 1964), con il duplice scopo di aiutare i …

In dependence of the lack of resources and the consequent need to manage better the
allocation process, there is a growing interest regarding the issue of research evaluation. In …

In Italy the OA movement has mainly pursued a “bottom up approach”. Librarians, IT
professionals, senior researchers, early adopters in individual universities and research …

The evaluation culture in Italy is quite fragile and, above all, lacking in organization system.
Worldwide, however, research evaluation systems adopted are subject to verification in …