This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in...

The number of people living in African cities is expected to double over the next two decades. While the need to provide adequate infrastructure, create high quality jobs and manage pollution in fast growing cities has been well studied, these studies say little about subjective quality of city...

This paper discusses the use of outcome indicators for policy monitoring. In addition to providing general recommendations on their design and implementation, it makes two contributions to the existing literature. First, it shows the importance of distinguishing outcome indicators from other...

Il contributo cerca di delineare un certo modo di concepire la prospettiva dell’invecchiamento attivo e un certo modo di ragionare sul tema dell’apprendimento permanente, con particolare riguardo a quello in età avanzata - nonché di connettere i due ordini di considerazioni. Per il primo...

La relazione complessa tra persone anziane e città caratterizza da sempre la condizione urbana. In questo breve testo le persone anziane sono considerate oltre che un settore problematico della società anche un risorsa, per attivare la quale appare necessario costruire una struttura intermedia...

Ethnicity has been constructively attacked from the perspective of conflict management and constitutional engineering within several countries in Africa. African leaders have recognized the problem of ethnicity and have sought to address it through many and varied schemes. This paper analyses...

La riflessione di Bruno Trentin costituisce un terreno di discussione importante, per il contributo che ha lasciato, costituito da materiali piuttosto eterogeni, e in quanto territorio sul quale è possibile far convergere il confronto fra diverse discipline. Il saggio, partendo da alcuni suoi...

This paper investigates the citation impact of three large geographical areas -- the U.S., the European Union (EU), and the rest of the world (RW) -- at different aggregation levels. The difficulty is that 42% of the 3.6 million articles in our Thomson Scientific dataset are assigned to several...

This paper uses high- and low-impact citation indicators for the evaluation of the citation performance of research units at different aggregate levels. To solve the problem of the assignment of individual articles to multiple sub-fields, it follows a multiplicative strategy according to which...