Alberto Baccini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Baccini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Baccini |
| SIGNATURE | BACCINI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siena |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0293-482X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is the panel fair? Evaluating panel compositions through network analysis. The case of research assessments in Italy
Research evaluation is usually governed by panels of peers. Procedural fairness refers to the principles that ensures decisions are made through a fair and transparent process. It requires that the composition of panels is fair. A fair panel is usually defined in terms of observable characteristics of scholars such as gender or affiliations. The formal adherence to these criteria is not sufficient to guarantee a fair composition in terms of schol…
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion
Who are the Gatekeepers of Economics? Geographic Diversity, Gender Composition, and Interlocking Editorship of Journal Boards
This study investigates the role of editorial board members as gatekeepers in science, creating and utilizing a database of 1516 active economics journals in 2019, which includes more than 44,000 scholars from over 6000 institutions and 142 countries. The composition of these editorial boards is explored in terms of geographic affiliation, institutional affiliation, and gender. Results highlight that the academic publishing environment is primari…
Just an artifact? The concordance between peer review and bibliometrics in economics and statistics in the Italian research assessment exercise
During the Italian research assessment exercise (2004–2010), the governmental agency (ANVUR) in charge of its realization performed an experiment on the concordance between peer review and bibliometrics at an individual article level. The computed concordances were at most weak for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The only exception was the moderate concordance found for the area of economics and statistics. In this paper, the d…
Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unusually high submission rate of scholarly articles. Given that most academics were forced to work from home, the competing demands for familial duties may have penalized the scientific productivity of women. To test this hypothesis, we looked at submitted manuscripts and peer review activities for all Elsevier journals between February and May 2018-2020, including data on over 5 mil…
Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals
This paper explores, by using suitable quantitative techniques, to what extent the intellectual proximity among scholarly journals is also proximity in terms of social communities gathered around the journals. Three fields are considered: statistics, economics and information and library sciences. Co-citation networks represent intellectual proximity among journals. The academic communities around the journals are represented by considering the n…
Is technological change really skill-biased? Evidence from the introduction of ICT on the Italian textile industry (1980-2000)
This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the skills of a workforce. Using micro-data collected from workers in the textile sector, we analyse whether the introduction of ICT has modified workers' tasks, so that higher skills and longer training periods than before are necessary. Empirical evidence suggests that the adoption of ICT has no universal skill-biased effect for all oc…
F. Y. Edgeworth's Treatise on Probabilities
Probability theory has a central role in Edgeworth's thought; this article examines the philosophical foundation of the theory. Starting from a frequentist position, Edgeworth introduced some innovations to the definition of primitive probabilities. He distinguished between primitive probabilities based on experience of statistical evidence, and primitive a priori probabilities based on a more general and less precise kind of experience, inherite…
Frequentist Probability and Choice under Uncertainty
The paper is concerned with the question of the impossibility of a theory of expected utility within the context of a frequentist theory of probability. In so doing I focus on John Venn's and Francis Y. Edgeworth's work. Both authors underline that the strong division between probability and theory of decision derives from the impossibility to apply cogently probability values to single events. According to the author, this question is exemplifie…
Who are the Gatekeepers of Economics? Geographic Diversity, Gender Composition, and Interlocking Editorship of Journal Boards
This study investigates the role of editorial board members as gatekeepers in science, creating and utilizing a database of 1516 active economics journals in 2019, which includes more than 44,000 scholars from over 6000 institutions and 142 countries. The composition of these editorial boards is explored in terms of geographic affiliation, institutional affiliation, and gender. Results highlight that the academic publishing environment is primari…
F. Y. Edgeworth's Treatise on Probabilities
Probability theory has a central role in Edgeworth's thought; this article examines the philosophical foundation of the theory. Starting from a frequentist position, Edgeworth introduced some innovations to the definition of primitive probabilities. He distinguished between primitive probabilities based on experience of statistical evidence, and primitive a priori probabilities based on a more general and less precise kind of experience, inherite…
Frequentist Probability and Choice under Uncertainty
The paper is concerned with the question of the impossibility of a theory of expected utility within the context of a frequentist theory of probability. In so doing I focus on John Venn's and Francis Y. Edgeworth's work. Both authors underline that the strong division between probability and theory of decision derives from the impossibility to apply cogently probability values to single events. According to the author, this question is exemplifie…
Frequentist Probability and Choice under Uncertainty
The paper is concerned with the question of the impossibility of a theory of expected utility within the context of a frequentist theory of probability. In so doing I focus on John Venn's and Francis Y. Edgeworth's work. Both authors underline that the strong division between probability and theory of decision derives from the impossibility to apply cogently probability values to single events. According to the author, this question is exemplifie…
F. Y. Edgeworth's Treatise on Probabilities
Probability theory has a central role in Edgeworth's thought; this article examines the philosophical foundation of the theory. Starting from a frequentist position, Edgeworth introduced some innovations to the definition of primitive probabilities. He distinguished between primitive probabilities based on experience of statistical evidence, and primitive a priori probabilities based on a more general and less precise kind of experience, inherite…
Is technological change really skill-biased? Evidence from the introduction of ICT on the Italian textile industry (1980-2000)
This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the skills of a workforce. Using micro-data collected from workers in the textile sector, we analyse whether the introduction of ICT has modified workers' tasks, so that higher skills and longer training periods than before are necessary. Empirical evidence suggests that the adoption of ICT has no universal skill-biased effect for all oc…
Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals
This paper explores, by using suitable quantitative techniques, to what extent the intellectual proximity among scholarly journals is also proximity in terms of social communities gathered around the journals. Three fields are considered: statistics, economics and information and library sciences. Co-citation networks represent intellectual proximity among journals. The academic communities around the journals are represented by considering the n…
Gender gap in journal submissions and peer review during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. A study on 2329 Elsevier journals
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an unusually high submission rate of scholarly articles. Given that most academics were forced to work from home, the competing demands for familial duties may have penalized the scientific productivity of women. To test this hypothesis, we looked at submitted manuscripts and peer review activities for all Elsevier journals between February and May 2018-2020, including data on over 5 mil…
Just an artifact? The concordance between peer review and bibliometrics in economics and statistics in the Italian research assessment exercise
During the Italian research assessment exercise (2004–2010), the governmental agency (ANVUR) in charge of its realization performed an experiment on the concordance between peer review and bibliometrics at an individual article level. The computed concordances were at most weak for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The only exception was the moderate concordance found for the area of economics and statistics. In this paper, the d…
Fine-grained classification of journal articles based on multiple layers of information through similarity network fusion
Who are the Gatekeepers of Economics? Geographic Diversity, Gender Composition, and Interlocking Editorship of Journal Boards
This study investigates the role of editorial board members as gatekeepers in science, creating and utilizing a database of 1516 active economics journals in 2019, which includes more than 44,000 scholars from over 6000 institutions and 142 countries. The composition of these editorial boards is explored in terms of geographic affiliation, institutional affiliation, and gender. Results highlight that the academic publishing environment is primari…
Is the panel fair? Evaluating panel compositions through network analysis. The case of research assessments in Italy
Research evaluation is usually governed by panels of peers. Procedural fairness refers to the principles that ensures decisions are made through a fair and transparent process. It requires that the composition of panels is fair. A fair panel is usually defined in terms of observable characteristics of scholars such as gender or affiliations. The formal adherence to these criteria is not sufficient to guarantee a fair composition in terms of schol…
Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works)