Recent publications:
Rodella I., Sciandra A., Tuzzi A. (2025) "Textual Analysis of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Evaluation Summary Reports. Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses of Funded and Non-Funded Proposals " Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 17(1), 247-266. DOI: 10.25430/pupj-IJSE-2025-1-12
Calcagni', A., Sciandra, A., Tuzzi, A. (2025) Lost in Noise: When cleaning up clouds the picture. Fuzzy topic modeling and robust low-rank decomposition. Book of short papers IES 2025 - Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality, pp. 458-463.
Finos, L., Sciandra, A. (2025). Analysis of Mastodon's Italian Messages: Networks, Topics, LLM and Machine Learning. In: Pollice, A., Mariani, P. (eds) Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography III. SIS 2024. Italian Statistical Society Series on Advances in Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64431-3_112
Sciandra, A., Tuzzi, A. (2025). Competing Sets of Predictors in an Authorship Attribution Task: Most Frequent Words, Large Language Models and Correspondence Analysis. In: Pollice, A., Mariani, P. (eds) Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography IV. SIS 2024. Italian Statistical Society Series on Advances in Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64447-4_88
Sciandra, A., Trevisani, M, & Tuzzi, A. (2025). Temporal trends and presidential traits in the Italian end-of-year addresses: comparing and contrasting KBS and STM results. Quality & Quantity, 59, pp. 905–935. 10.1007/s11135-024-01959-x.
Brondi, S., Neresini, F. & Sciandra, A. (2025). What does the word “science” evoke? Social representation of science, evaluative elements, and attitude. Quality & Quantity, 59, pp. 783–811. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-024-01961-3
Riccardo Ferretti, Enrico Rubaltelli & Andrea Sciandra (2025). Analysts’ Recommendations and Press Sentiment: Complementary or Alternative to Drive Investors’ Trading Behavior?, Journal of Behavioral Finance, 26(1), pp. 141–153. DOI: 10.1080/15427560.2023.2257342
Sciandra, A., & Tuzzi, A. (2024). Can Correspondence Analysis Challenge Transformers in Authorship Attribution Tasks? In: A. Plaia, L. Egidi, A. Abbruzzo (eds), Proceedings of the Statistics and Data Science 2024 Conference - New perspectives on Statistics and Data Science, pp. 362-367.
Rodella, I., Sciandra, A., & Tuzzi, A. (2024). Analysis of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) evaluations and models for predicting the success of proposals. In A. Dister & D. Longrée (eds.), JADT 2024 Mots comptés, textes déchiffrés, pp. 783-792.
Cammozzo, A., Di Buccio, E., Giardullo, P., Neresini, F., & Sciandra, A. (2024). Towards a Methodology for Technoscientific Objects Extraction, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3703
Sciandra, A., Trevisani, M., & Tuzzi,A.. (2023). Diagnostics for topic modelling. The dubious joys of making quantitative decisions in a qualitative environment. In P. Cerchiello, A. Agosto, S. Osmetti, A. Spelta (eds), Proceedings of the Statistics and Data Science Conference, Pavia University Press.
Neresini F, Giardullo P, Di Buccio E, Morsello B, Cammozzo A, Sciandra A, & Boscolo M. (2023) When scientific experts come to be media stars: An evolutionary model tested by analysing coronavirus media coverage across Italian newspapers. PLOS ONE 18(4): e0284841. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284841
Martini, M.C., Pelle, E., Poggi, F. & Sciandra, A., (2022), The role of citation networks to explain academic promotions: an empirical analysis of the Italian national scientific qualification. Scientometrics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04485-5
Ferretti, R. and Sciandra, A. (2022), "Does the attention-grabbing mechanism work on Sundays? Influence of social and religious factors on investors' attention", Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 14 No. 5, pp. 791-805. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-03-2021-0047
Sonia Brondi, Federico Neresini & Andrea Sciandra (2022): The social representation of nanotechnologies and its relationships with those of science and technology: Making familiar the unfamiliar between enthusiasm and caution, Journal of Risk Research, DOI:10.1080/13669877.2021.1936606
Sciandra, A., & Ferretti, R. (2022) Predictive performance comparisons of different feature extraction methods in a financial column corpus. SIS 2022 - Book of Short Papers, solicited session “Processing of textual data in large corpora”.
Sciandra, A. (2022) Dimensionality Reduction of Unstructured and Network Data for Stance Detection. Proceedings of JADT 2022, 16th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data.
Sciandra, A., Surian, A. & Finos, L. (2021), Supervised Machine Learning Methods to Disclose Action and Information in “U.N. 2030 Agenda” Social Media Data. Soc Indic Res 156, 689–699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02523-4
Lai, M., Cignarella, A. T., Finos, L., & Sciandra, A. (2021). WordUp! at VaxxStance 2021: Combining Contextual Information with Textual and Dep endency-Based Syntactic Features for Stance Detection. In XXXVII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. (Vol. 2943, pp. 210-232). CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Crabu S, Giardullo P, Sciandra A, Neresini F (2021) Politics overwhelms science in the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from the whole coverage of the Italian quality newspapers. PLOS ONE 16(5): e0252034. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252034
Sciandra, Andrea; Trevisani, Matilde; Tuzzi, Arjuna (2021). Sulle tracce dell'espressione dell'interiorità: analisi diacronica di un corpus di narrativa italiana del XIX-XX secolo. Rivista internazionale di tecnica della traduzione, vol. 23, pp.219-233.
Ferretti, R., & Sciandra, A. (2021). Media and Investors’ Attention. Estimating analysts’ ratings and sentiment of a financial column to predict abnormal returns. SIS 2021 - Book of Short Papers, C. Perna, N. Salvati, F. Schirripa Spagnolo (eds.), Pearson, pp. 1543-1548.
A. Dal Ben, G. Rinaldo, A. Sciandra, B.Segatto (2021), L’utilizzo della ricerca scientifica nella professione dell’assistente sociale, Studi di sociologia, 4, pp. 339-358, 10.26350/000309_000127
A. Sciandra, COVID-19 Outbreak through Tweeters' Words: Monitoring Italian Social Media Communication about COVID-19 with Text Mining and Word Embeddings, in 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rennes, France, 2020 pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/ISCC50000.2020.9219595
Ferretti, R., & Sciandra, A. (2020). The weight of words: textual data versus sentiment analysis in stock returns prediction. Book of short papers - SIS 2020, A. Pollice, N. Salvati, F. Schirripa Spagnolo (eds.), Pearson, pp. 1099-1104.
Ferraccioli, F., Sciandra, A., Da Pont, M., Girardi, P., Solari D., and Finos, L. TextWiller @ SardiStance, HaSpeede2: Text or Con-text? A Smart Use of Social Network Data in Predicting Polarization (2020). EVALITA 2020 - Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian (Online event, December 17th, 2020).
Surian, A., & Sciandra, A. (2019). Digital divide: addressing Internet skills. Educational implications in the validation of a scale. Research in Learning Technology, 27. https://doi.org/10.25304/rlt.v27.2155
Sciandra A., Surian A., Finos L. (2019). Classifying the Willingness to Act in Social Media Data: Supervised Machine Learning for U.N. 2030 Agenda, Book of Short Papers SIS 2019, Smart Statistics for Smart Applications, Pearson, pp. 509-516.
Santona, A., De Cesare, P., Tognasso, G., De Franceschi, M., & Sciandra, A. (2019). The mediating role of romantic attachment in the relationship between attachment to parents and aggression. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1824.
Solari D., Sciandra A., & Finos L. (2019). TextWiller: Collection of functions for text mining, specially devoted to the Italian language. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(41), 1256, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01256
Surian, A., & Sciandra, A. (2019). City Prosperity Index: a comparative analysis of Latin American and Mediterranean cities based on well-being and social inclusion features. Book of Short Papers ASA Conference 2019, Statistics for Health and Well-being, Padova: Cleup, pp. 210-214.
Sciandra A. (2018), “Grandi opere” civili. L’effetto del capitale sociale bridging sulla cultura civile in Italia, Padova: Cleup
Delvecchio E, Sciandra A, Finos L, Mazzeschi C and Di Riso D (2015). The role of co-parenting alliance as a mediator between trait anxiety, family system maladjustment, and parenting stress in a sample of non-clinical Italian parents. Front. Psychol. 6:1177. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01177
Sciandra A. (2015). Big data nelle scienze sociali: una proposta di integrazione del topic modeling nei disegni di ricerca con mixed methods. In Campostrini S., Ghellini G. & Tuzzi A. (eds.) Con senso di misura, riflessi statistici da alcuni allievi di Lorenzo Bernardi. Padova:Cleup, pp.187-200.
Segatto B. & Sciandra A. (2014). Time in Adolescence. Validating Zimbardo’s Stanford Time Perspective Inventory using a sample of Italian adolescents. TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 21(1), pp. 103-113.
Angelini P. & Sciandra A. (2013). Pixel vs. Font. Facebook and Young People’s Self-Presentation. Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 15(1), pp. 58-81.
Translation: Van der Gaag M., Appelhof G.J. & Webber M., Ambiguities in Responses to the Position Generator, Sociologia e Politiche Sociali, 2012, 15(2), pp. 113-141.
Sciandra A. (2012). Capitale sociale e cultura civile in Italia. L'ipotesi di mediazione dei reticoli sociali nel rapporto tra caratteristiche individuali e cultura civile. PhD Thesis. Università degli Studi di Verona.
Sciandra A. (2011). Studiare riflessività e capitale sociale: una nota metodologica, in Scanagatta S. e Maccarini A.M. (a cura di), Vite riflessive. Discontinuità e traiettorie nella società morfogenetica, Milano: FrancoAngeli, pp. 175-185.
Sciandra A. (2011). Social capital and social network sites: an empirical analysis of European high school students, Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, vol. 3, n. 3, pp. 52-68.
Sciandra A. (2011). Social Capital in Relational Approaches: Methodology and Results of Empirical Studies, Italian Sociological Review, vol. 1, n. 2 , 2011, pp. 47-53.