AGRI-01 Observatory – Agricultural and food economics and rural appraisal
07/AGRI-01 — Agricultural and Food Economics and Rural Appraisal

Università degli Studi di Catania

Italian university
7 full professors · 8 associate professors · 3 researchers · 4 postdocs · 2 other qualified
24
researchers in the field
605
publications
11,794
citations
49
institution h-index
51%
in Q1 journals
01
Indicators
Output and impact
14
median h-index
32
highest h-index
284
publications since 2021

The institution h-index is computed as for a person, on the distinct papers with at least one author of the field from this institution: 49 papers with at least 49 citations each. It grows with the number of people and years: read it next to the staff size, not to compare institutions of different size.

Output and quality of publication outlets

Publications per year

2
'06
0
'07
6
'08
2
'09
1
'10
8
'11
13
'12
24
'13
23
'14
36
'15
43
'16
25
'17
40
'18
44
'19
32
'20
43
'21
49
'22
47
'23
52
'24
40
'25

Journal quartiles (SJR · SCImago)

562with SJR
Q1 284 (51%)
Q2 87 (15%)
Q3 37 (7%)
Q4 154 (27%)

How this institution collaborates

59%
papers signed with a colleague from the same institution
33%
papers signed with another institution of the field
49%
author signatures not belonging to this institution

Out of 605 papers. The three shares do not add up to one hundred: a paper can answer yes to more than one question. They describe how people work, not how well: a very cohesive institution and a very open one are two different ways of doing research, not one better than the other.

02
People
Faculty, researchers and projects

Faculty and researchers in the field

NameRole Years since first publication h-indexCitationsPubs
Valeria Allegra Other qualified 15 9 231 28
Claudio Bellia Associate professor 16 17 733 45
Marcella Bucca Postdoctoral researcher 14 2 9 6
Mariarita Cammarata Postdoctoral researcher 7 9 267 24
Gaetano Chinnici Full professor 25 28 2,213 90
Giuseppe Cucuzza Associate professor 24 8 123 21
Mario D'Amico Full professor 25 32 3,533 114
Giuseppe Antonio Di Vita Full professor 16 31 3,050 107
Vera Teresa Foti Associate professor 30 18 738 62
Laura Giuffrida Postdoctoral researcher 6 4 74 19
Giovanni La Via Full professor 36 13 536 32
Gioacchino Pappalardo Full professor 24 24 1,904 85
Biagio Pecorino Full professor 25 24 2,007 86
Iuri Peri Associate professor 19 12 559 39
Carlo Prato Other qualified 12 5 208 6
Angelo Pulvirenti Postdoctoral researcher 3 2 29 5
Marcella Rizzo Associate professor 14 13 442 20
Alessandro Scuderi Associate professor 24 25 2,034 111
Roberta Selvaggi Researcher 11 20 887 61
Giovanni Signorello Full professor 27 18 1,254 62
Daniela Ivana Laura Spina Researcher 6 14 539 46
Giuseppe Timpanaro Associate professor 30 25 1,695 118
Gabriella Antonella Vindigni Associate professor 27 14 1,009 30
Carla Zarba' Researcher 19 13 462 48

Departments

  • Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A) · 14
  • AGRICOLTURA, ALIMENTAZIONE E AMBIENTE (DI3A) · 3
  • Economia e Impresa · 2

National research projects

2
researchers with at least one PRIN
2
projects
0
as PI
2
research units
254,437 €
research-unit shares

Amounts are the shares of the individual research units, not project totals: when several people of the field take part in the same PRIN, adding up the whole project would count the same funding more than once. Calls covered: 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2022 PNRR (PRIN database of the Italian Ministry of University and Research).

03
Collaboration
In Italy and worldwide

Collaboration in Italy

23other institutions of the field (with at least one joint paper)
  1. Messina46
  2. Torino (Grugliasco)45
  3. Napoli Federico II (Portici)39
  4. CREA-PB (Roma)33
  5. Bologna17
  6. Ferrara17
  7. Mediterranea (Reggio Calabria)16
  8. Palermo12
own institution · 15 more institutions on the map · circles proportional to joint papers

International collaboration

    04
    Research
    Topics, journals and publications

    Main research topics

    The area of each box is proportional to the number of papers: it shows at a glance where the research of this institution concentrates. Click a topic for its page.

    Consumer behaviour · 100 papersConsumer behaviour100 papersSustainability assessment · 86 papersSustainability assessment86 papersFood supply chains · 59 papersFood supply chains59 papersGovernance and institutions · 59 papersGovernance andinstitutions59 papersFruit and vegetables · 54 papersFruit andvegetables54 papersWillingness to pay · 50 papersWillingness topay50 papersAgri-food marketing and communication · 44 papersAgri-food marketingand communication44 papersInnovation and technology adoption · 44 papersInnovation andtechnology adoption44 papersWine economics · 40 papersWine economics40 papersCircular economy · 39 papersCircular economy39 papersGeographical indications and certification · 37 papersGeographicalindications andcertification37 papersEconometric and statistical methods · 36 papersEconometric andstatisticalmethods36 papers

    Relative specialisation

    How much a topic weighs here compared with the whole field: above 1 there is specialisation, below 1 the topic is less present than average. The grey tick marks parity. Topics with fewer than three papers are excluded, where the ratio would say little.

    TopicPapersRelative specialisationIndex
    Fruit and vegetables54
    		2.72
    Circular economy39
    		1.99
    Geographical indications and certification37
    		1.57
    Willingness to pay50
    		1.51
    Agri-food marketing and communication44
    		1.16
    Consumer behaviour100
    		1.09
    Sustainability assessment86
    		1.01
    Wine economics40
    		0.97
    Food supply chains59
    		0.91
    Innovation and technology adoption44
    		0.90
    Econometric and statistical methods36
    		0.88
    Governance and institutions59
    		0.58

    Main journals

    Most cited publications

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