Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: The Case of Italian Academia [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Nepotistic practices are detrimental for academia. Here I show how disciplines with a high likelihood of nepotism can be detected using standard statistical techniques based on shared last names among professors.
Stefano Allesina
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Data cleaning and enrichment through data integration: networking the Italian academia [PDF]
Scientific DataWe describe a bibliometric network characterizing co-authorship collaborations in the entire Italian academic community. The network, consisting of 38,220 nodes and 507,050 edges, is built upon two distinct data sources: faculty information provided by ...
Irene Finocchi +3 more
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The Italian University Habilitation and the Challenge of Increasing the Representation of Women in Academia [PDF]
Challenges, 2015 Increasing the representation of women in academia is a priority challenge in higher education policy. This study uses data from the Italian University habilitation competition in 2012 to test whether this national, standardized and quantitative ...
Marco Pautasso, Pautasso Marco
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Asphyxia of Italian academia in medicine and political deference [PDF]
Lancet, The, 2020 NA
Pasquale Gallina, Oreste Gallo
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The evolution of research collaboration within and across disciplines in Italian Academia. [PDF]
Scientometrics, 2016 In sociology of science much attention is dedicated to the study of scientific networks, especially to co-authorship and citations in publications. Other trends of research have investigated the advantages, limits, performances and difficulties of interdisciplinary research, which is increasingly advocated by the main lines of public research funding ...
Bellotti E, Kronegger L, Guadalupi L.
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Is Entering Italian Academia Getting Harder? [PDF]
, 2022 AbstractWhile a PhD degree is often considered the first necessary step to an academic career, since 2010 only a small fraction (less than 10%) of doctoral graduates obtained a position in academia within six years of the award of their degree. While we do not have information on their labour market outcomes, we can examine the determinants of this ...
Daniele Checchi, Checchi Daniele
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Has the Italian Academia Missed an Opportunity? [PDF]
Physical Therapy, 2014 In universities around the world, physical therapist experts with a scientific background are appointed as professors of physical therapy. In the Italian academia, however, only 2 physical therapists have been appointed as professors in the academic sector known as “Sciences of nursing, rehabilitation and neuropsychiatric techniques” (MED/48).1 A total
Roberto Gatti +2 more
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Improving Italian general practice training: the role of academia [PDF]
BJGP Open, 2017 -
Luca Cegolon +3 more
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Teaching forest ecology in the Italian Academia [PDF]
Forest@, 2008 The increasing importance of forest ecology in the new organization of forestry faculty, with special reference to the University of Florence (Italy), is briefly outlined.
Calamini G
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Gender inequalities in Italian academia. What future for female academics? [PDF]
Feminismo/s, 2017 In the last 20 years, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) has enacted two major reforms and passed a number of parliamentary acts that have radically changed the Italian academic system, e.g., the role of the permanent ...
Emanuela Sala, Roberta Bosisio
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