Working papers

Working papers

• • Abramo, G., Cicero, T., & D’Angelo, C.A. (2026). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of scientific publications: Did journals lower their acceptance quality thresholds?

  • Abramo, G., D’Angelo, C.A., Reale, E., & Zinilli, A. (2026). Mind the Gap in Research Assessment: Researchers’ Perceptions and Bibliometric Evidence.

  • Abramo, G., & D’Angelo, C.A. (2026). Peer Review Under Strain: Expertise Gaps and Overload in National Research Assessment.

  • Abramo, G., & D’Angelo, C.A. (2026). The Frequency-Fund Allocation Mismatch in Research Assessment Exercises: Allocative Inefficiency and Procedural Unfairness

  • Abramo, G., & D'Angelo, C.A. (2026). The hidden institutional penalty of sex-blind research assessment exercises

  • Abramo, G., Cicero, T., D'Angelo, C.A., & Mele, I. (2026). DISCoVER: An Open-Data Infrastructure for Responsible Expert Discovery

  • Abramo, G., & D’Angelo, C.A. (2026). Do Repeated Research Assessments Reward Merit or Prior Advantage? Evidence from Italy 

  • Abramo, G., Cicero, T., D'Angelo, C.A., & Mele, I. (2026). Opening the Matchmaking Black Box: Algorithmic Expert Ranking and Evaluative Friction in Academia-Industry Intermediation.

  • Abramo, G., & D’Angelo, C.A. (2026). Wrong field, wrong baseline, wrong performance rankings: Why publication-level normalization matters in research assessment exercises 

  • Abramo, G., & D'Angelo, C.A. (2026). Fixed output quotas and selection-rate distortion in national research assessment: A counterfactual evaluation of Italian universities in STEMM.