Europass Curriculum Vitae Personal information First name(s) / Surname(s) E-mail Flavia Di Costa dicosta@dis.uniroma1.it; Work experience Dates December 2013 Onwards Research fellow Research activity on Productivity and efficiency analysis: methodology and empirical applications in science and technology (S&T) Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG) Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Rome Academic Dates January 2013 November 2013 Research fellow Research activity on Measurement of regional specialization index by bibliometric techniques ENSEMBLE Project CNR-National Research Council Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI), Viale Manzoni,30 00185 Rome Public Research Organization Dates July 2012 1) Literature review on indicators for measuring research productivity of individuals, groups, departments and organizations; 2) methodological proposal for the introduction of a bibliometric indicator of labor productivity; 3) Evaluation and validation of the indicator carried out through a study on a national academic reference set. Dates March 2012 1) Institutional databases bibliographic metadata transcode; 2) Tracing of research products in the Italian-National Citation Report - Web of Science for the R VQR call- ANVUR 3) False positives detection among authorships assigned by a disambiguation algorithm. Dates November 2011 Page 1/6 - Curriculum vitae of
1) A survey of the literature on interdisciplinary scientific research ; 2) Development of a bibliometric methodology and of its validation for the Italian Universitarian System. Dates March 2011 1) A survey of the literature on rescaling citations of scientific publications; 2) Reconstruction of the citation patterns of Italian scientific papers by year and by subject; 3) Definition of a citations standardized process based on the results of the previous phases. Dates November 2010 1) Scientific production evaluation of the Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases - Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor (2004-2008); 2) Researchers evaluation of Pharmacology Department, University of Pavia (2004-2008); 3) University of Sassari scientists scientific performance evaluation (2004-2008). Dates September 2010 1) World s top scientists identification interested in highway related issues ; 2) Data processing of 2009 report: Latium and Lisbon strategy ; 3) PhD programs evaluations for the Universitiy of Cagliari, of Pavia and of Udine. Dates January 2010 Research activity regarding a development of a new bibliometric impact indicator for research assessment Dates November 2009-December 2009 Assistant research fellow Research activity concerning a methodology to identify national centres of excellence within the hard sciences University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Faculty of Engineering - Department of Engineering and Management Academic Page 2/6 - Curriculum vitae of
Dates April 2009-July 2009 Research activity regarding a methodology to identify top scientists in the public research organizations of Latium Region FILAS SpA - Via della Conciliazione 22, 00193 Roma, Italy Company promoting development and innovation of Latium Region Dates January 2009 Research activity regarding a bibliometric analysis of scientific collaborations between industry and public research organizations Dates October 2008 Identification and reconciliation of bibliometric address extracted from Italian national Citation Report TM Thomson Reuters Consulting firm on strategic management and technology innovation, research policy, research Dates April 2007-April 2008 Research activity on PND algorithms(proper Noun Disambiguation) in scientometrics FILAS SpA - Via della Conciliazione 22, 00193 Roma, Italy Company promoting development and innovation of Latium Region Dates November 2006 March 2007 Research activity regarding a strategic analysis to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latium Region Sviluppo Lazio SpA - Via Vincenzo Bellini, 22-00198 Roma, Italy Company promoting development and innovation (Latium Region) Dates June 2006 Research activity regarding patents; disambiguation algorithms for bibliometric purposes; scientific and technological performance indicators Page 3/6 - Curriculum vitae of Dates June 2006 Activities concerning a database of scientific competences in Latium Region FILAS SpA - Via della Conciliazione 22, 00193 Roma, Italy Company promoting development and innovation of Latium Region
Dates October 2005-March 2006 Research activity regarding an analysis of assessment models for research project Nova Consulting Srl - Via di San Tarcisio, 4 00178 Roma, Italy Consulting company Dates March 2003-February 2005 Research fellow Activity regarding project preparation and proposal writing for European FP6 CNR-National Research Council Institute of Crystallography, Monterotondo Roma, Italy Public Research Organization Education and training Dates December 2008-December 2009 Master in Applied econometrics Introduction to econometrics, time series analysis, panel data, non parametric statistics, spatial econometrics, categorical data analysis. Scuola Superiore dell Economia e delle Finanze Ezio Vanoni Ministero dell Economia e delle Finanze, Roma, Italy Dates October 2007 Certificate Graduate Course Measuring Science: Assessment of Research Performance and Discovery of Patterns of Scientific and Technological development CWTS - Leiden University Netherlands Dates 2003-2007 PhD in Engineering and Management Thesis Title: The influence of scientific collaborations on the performance of universities: a study of the Italian academic system. Bibliometric analysis about influence of scientific collaborations on research performance of Italian universities University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Faculty of Engineering - Department of Engineering and Management Dates 2003-2004 Master in Business Administration Strategic Management, Management of technological Innovation, Financial engineering, Marketing, Informative Systems, Net-Economy and E-Business, Leadership and Negotiation, Service and Production Systems, Supply Chain and Inventory Management. University of Rome "Tor Vergata" School of Engineering Dates 1994 Degree in Chemical Engineering Chemical processes Page 4/6 - Curriculum vitae of
University of Rome "Sapienza" - School of Engineering Personal skills and competences Mother tongue(s) Other language(s) Italian English, French Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production French B2 Indipendent user B2 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user English B1 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user B1 Indipendent user (*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Computer skills and competences Competent with Microsoft Office programs (ECDL- European Computer Driving License), econometric software (Stata and Gretl). Page 5/6 - Curriculum vitae of
Additional information PUBLICATIONS 1) Abramo G., D'Angelo C. A., Di Costa F., (2008). Assessment of sectorial aggregation distortion in research productivity measurements. Research Evaluation, 17(2), 111-121. 2) Abramo G., D'Angelo C. A., Di Costa F., (2009). Research collaboration and productivity: is there correlation? Higher Education, 57(2), 155-171. 3) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2009). Mapping excellence in national research systems: the case of Italy. Evaluation Review, 33(2), 159-188. 4) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Solazzi M., (2009). University-industry collaboration in Italy: a bibliometric examination. Technovation, 29(6-7), 498-507. 5) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2010). Citations vs journal impact factor as proxy of quality: could the latter ever be preferable? Scientometrics, 84(3), 821-833. 6) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2010). Testing the trade-off between productivity and quality in research activities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 132-140. 7) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2011). University-industry research collaboration: a model to assess university capability. Higher Education, 62(2), 163-181. 8) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., Solazzi M., (2011). The role of information asymmetry in the market for university-industry research collaboration. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 36(1), 84-100. 9) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2011). A national-scale cross-time analysis of university research performance. Scientometrics, 87(2), 399 413. 10) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2011). National research assessment exercises: the effects of changing the rules of the game during the game. Scientometrics, 88(1), 229-238. 11) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2011). Research productivity: are higher academic ranks more productive than lower ones? Scientometrics, 88(3), 915-928. 12) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2011). National research assessment exercises: a comparison of peer review and bibliometrics rankings. Scientometrics, 89(3), 929-941. 13) Abramo G., D Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2012). Identifying interdisciplinarity through the disciplinary classification of co-authors of scientific publications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(11), 2206-2222. 14) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F., (2014). Inefficiency in selecting products for submission to national research assessment exercises. Scientometrics, 98(3), 2069-2086. 15) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F. (2013). Investigating returns to scope of research fields in universities. Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9685-x. Article in Press. 16) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F. (2014). Variability of research performance across disciplines within universities in non-competitive higher education systems. Scientometrics. 98(2), 777-795. 17) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F. A new bibliometric approach to assess the scientific specialization of regions. Forthcoming in Research Evaluation. ISSN: 0958-2029. 18) Abramo G., D'Angelo C.A., Di Costa F. A new approach to measure the scientific strengths of territories. Forthcoming in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. ISSN: 1532-2882. Page 6/6 - Curriculum vitae of