OpenCitations is an infrastructure organization for open scholarship dedicated to the
publication of open citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies …

In this paper, we present COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI
citations (http://opencitations. net/index/coci). COCI is the first open citation index created by …

In this article, we discuss the outcomes of an experiment where we analysed whether and to
what extent the introduction, in 2012, of the new research assessment exercise in Italy (aka …

Purpose Conferences bring scientists together and provide one of the most timely means for
disseminating new ideas and cutting-edge works. The importance of conferences in many …

Background The 2010 reform of the Italian university system introduced the National
Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as a requirement for applying to permanent professor positions …

The aim of this paper is to study the role of citation network measures in the assessment of
scientific maturity. Referring to the case of the Italian national scientific qualification (ASN) …

Citation data of scientific publications are essential for different purposes, such as evaluating
research and building digital library collections. In this paper, we analyze to which extent …

In the past, several works have investigated ways for combining quantitative and qualitative
methods in research assessment exercises. Indeed, the Italian National Scientific …

The open data (OD) initiative fosters open access to public information in an organization. It
is a relatively new but very significant and potentially powerful approach that starts being …

The importance of open bibliographic repositories is widely accepted by the scientific
community. For evaluation processes, however, there is still some skepticism: Even if large …