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Introduction
I deal with scholarly communication issues. Here you find my most recent publications.
Skills and Expertise
Education
October 2000 - June 2002
Archivio di Stato di Bologna
Field of study
- Archivistics
November 1990 - July 1993
Publications
Publications (17)
The poster conveys the first results of a survey conducted among astrophysicists working at INAF. Just under 120 respondents made it possible to investigate their behaviour and opinions with regard to use of some major professional social networks and preferences about some aspects of scholarly communication and evaluation.
This paper results to be the first, though absolutely initial, overview of commenting platforms and other web 2.0 resources which were born for and within the astrophysical research community, from 2004 to 2016. Additional experiences, chiefly in the physics domain, were added for a total of twenty-one tools, inclusive of four items in the specific...
This paper conveys the outcomes of what results to be the first, though initial, overview of commenting platforms and related 2.0 resources born within and for the astrophysical community (2004–2016). Experiences were added, mainly in the physics domain, for a total of twenty-two major items, including four epijournals – and four supplementary reso...
Presented at an international conference held in Marseille, 5/6 June 2023.
The foundation of two pioneering Usenet newsgroups in astrophysics-still existent today-and some of the main milestones in their history have been tracked from the origins at Princeton University in 1983 to 1994. To this aim, in line with authoritative recommendations from the discipline of web history, different kinds of sources have been retrieve...
Research blogging has received a rather good amount of attention from the scholarly literature, but not in the domain of astrophysics. In the present paper, three active astrophysicists’ blogs have been chosen from a previously retrieved much wider corpus and analyzed against the pivotal theory of identity shaping in an online setting. The study, w...
These slides synthetically depict part of the results of my 2015 and 2016 publications on the subject and connect them to previous talks in the Workshop.
In recent years, the influences of the main web 2.0 tools on the scholarly communication cycle have been at heart of significant surveys. Awareness and/or adoption rates of these tools were a relevant aspect of this subject.
In a very similar perspective, the present study addresses the Italian astrophysical research community. An online questionna...
In October 2013 Italy enacted Law n.112/2013, containing the first national regulations about the open-access availability of publicly-funded research results (publications). The impact of these new regulations with the specific situation of that open-access pioneering discipline which is astrophysics, has been considered. Under a strictly technica...
The Current Research Information System of the Istituto Nazionale di
Astrofisica (CRIS-INAF) is an institutional database for the entire scientific and technological
output of INAF’s staff, which consists of more than 2000 people. It was set
up in 2009 in order to provide real-time information and statistics on the global activity
of the Institute....
In October 2013 Italy enacted a law containing the first national regulations about the open-access availability of publicly-funded research results (publications).This contribution examines how these new regulations match with the specific situation of that open-access pioneering discipline which is astrophysics.
Bibliometrics can be considered a well-established tool for analysing the scholarly productivity of research units at different levels and their scientific impact. It is well-known that the various disciplines are different with regard to their respective eligibility as objects of bibliometric analyses. Among the most eligible ones, according to pr...
This contribution conveys about three years of initiatives and experiences at the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, aimed at grounding evaluation on robust data.
INAF (Italian National Institute of Astrophysics) has recently started in experimental version its own institutional bibliographic database and repository. This paper shows some of its characteristics and suggests some proposal for its future development.
