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

Manuela Pilato

Qualified for full professorship · Foreign institutions
University of Winchester (UK)
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10
h-index
879
citations
27
publications
23%
in Q1 journals
2011
first paper
01
Indicators
Output and impact
26
g-index
10
i10-index
14
co-authors in the field
0.496
mean SJR

Working style and trajectory ?

16
career years
0.62
m-quotient
4.54
topic diversity
42
autonomy
m-quotient · 0,62 (field median 0.80)
Topic diversity · 4,54 (field median 4.50)

Output and quality

Publications per year

2
'11
2
'13
3
'14
2
'15
2
'16
4
'17
1
'18
3
'19
2
'20
2
'22
3
'23
1
'25

Journal quartiles (SJR · SCImago)

22with SJR
Q1 5 (23%)
Q2 1 (5%)
Q3 2 (9%)
Q4 14 (64%)
first indexed publication in 2011  ·  12 different outlets · 11% open access · 17 papers co-signed with others in the field · 63% with international co-authors (17 papers out of 27)
Article 21 · Book chapter 4 · Book 1 · Review 1

Recognition

1 paper is in the top 5% most cited among all papers of the field published in the same year. The threshold is recomputed year by year.
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Collaboration
Network, projects and conferences

Collaboration in Italy

4institutions of the field co-signing papers, besides their own (with at least one joint paper)
  1. Catania17
  2. Torino (Grugliasco)2
  3. CREA-PB (Roma)1
  4. Ferrara1
own institution · circles proportional to joint papers

International collaboration

    Main co-authors in the field

    Works with 14 researchers of the 07/AGRI-01 field. The number is the papers signed together.
    Co-authorInstitutionJoint papers
    Claudio Bellia CATANIA 9
    Giuseppe Antonio Di Vita CATANIA 5
    Mario D'Amico CATANIA 3
    Filippo Brun TORINO 1
    Vera Teresa Foti CATANIA 1
    Gioacchino Pappalardo CATANIA 1
    Biagio Pecorino CATANIA 1
    Maria Raimondo FERRARA 1
    Marcella Rizzo CATANIA 1
    Daniela Ivana Laura Spina CATANIA 1
    03
    Research
    Topics, journals and publications

    Research topics of the field

    Topics of the Observatory, among the 60 tracked, on which this researcher has published: the area of each box is proportional to the papers, the percentage is on the total of their papers. A paper can touch several topics, so the shares do not add up to one hundred.
    Sustainability assessment · 7 papers · 26%Sustainability assessment26% of papersAgritourism and rural tourism · 5 papers · 19%Agritourism and rural tourism19% of papersGovernance and institutions · 5 papers · 19%Governance andinstitutions19% of papersConsumer behaviour · 3 papers · 11%Consumer behaviour11% of papersGeographical indications and certification · 3 papers · 11%Geographicalindications andcertification11% of papersInnovation and technology adoption · 3 papers · 11%Innovation andtechnology adoption11% of papersBioeconomy and bioenergy · 2 papers · 7%Bioeconomy andbioenergy7% of papersClimate change and adaptation · 2 papers · 7%Climate change andadaptation7% of papersKnowledge, extension and human capital · 2 papers · 7%Knowledge, extensionand human capital7% of papersMediterranean diet and nutrition · 2 papers · 7%Mediterranean diet andnutrition7% of 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
    Agritourism and rural tourism5
    		8.09
    Geographical indications and certification3
    		3.35
    Sustainability assessment7
    		2.16
    Innovation and technology adoption3
    		1.62
    Governance and institutions5
    		1.30
    Consumer behaviour3
    		0.86

    Keywords of the publications

    sustainabilityinnovationagricultural sustainabilityambidextrous managementbioenergy cropconsumer preferencegeographical indicationownershiptourismveniceagricultural area utilizedagricultureannual plantbrexitbusiness

    Main journals

    The outlets where this person publishes most often. The name links to the journal page, with who publishes there in the field, the topics covered and the trend over time. Quartile and SJR are from SCImago.
    JournalPapersQuartileSJR
    Quality - Access to Success 14 Q4 0.227
    Eating Together in the Twenty-First Century: Social Challenges, Community Values, Individual Wellbeing 2 — —
    Sustainability (Switzerland) 2 Q1 0.750
    Anatolia 1 Q2 0.433
    Food Policy 1 Q1 2.011
    International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 1 Q3 0.296

    Most cited publications

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    How to read these numbers

    Technical definitions of the indicators on this profile. They describe how papers circulate in the indexed literature: they do not measure their quality, originality or usefulness.

    h-index

    The largest h such that at least h papers have received at least h citations each. It grows slowly and never goes back; it rewards steady output more than a single highly cited paper.

    g-index

    The largest g such that the g most cited papers add up to at least g² citations. Unlike the h-index it accounts for how much the top papers are cited. Computed excluding reviews: a review collects citations because of its review function, and a single one can shift the result by several points.

    i10-index

    Number of papers with at least ten citations.

    Career years

    reference year − year of the first indexed paper + 1

    They are counted from the first indexed paper, not from appointment: it measures activity in the literature, not seniority. Those who published during their PhD have a career longer than their position.

    m-quotient

    h-index ÷ career years

    Relates the h-index to career length. It avoids comparing a newcomer with someone who has published for thirty years: an h of 12 after eight years and an h of 12 after thirty describe different trajectories. In the field the median is 0.79 and half of the researchers lie between 0.50 and 1.12. The bar below the value shows the gap from the median and stops at double: 42 people out of 494 are above that threshold.

    It remains an indicator of citation volume divided by time. It does not distinguish those who changed field, had interruptions, or work on topics with slow citation cycles.

    Topic diversity

    H = −Σ pk · ln pk

    Shannon entropy computed on keywords, where pk is the share of the k-th keyword in the person's output. It is high for those who touch many subjects in a balanced way, low for those who focus. In the field it ranges from 0 to 6.15: half of the researchers lie between 3.88 and 4.97, the median is 4.57. The bar below the value shows the gap from the median, with the vertical tick marking it: it reads like the bar of the specialisation index, further down this page.

    There is no good value. Focusing on a few topics and ranging over many are two legitimate ways of doing research, and this number does not decide which is better.

    Autonomy

    min(200 ; 100 ÷ mean co-authors)

    Inverse index of the mean size of the author team. It is 100 for those who sign with one co-author on average, 50 with two, 33 with three; it rises above 100 for those who often sign alone, and the cap at 200 keeps a few single-author papers from dominating the scale. Co-authors are counted on Scopus identifiers, not names: two authors with the same surname and initial would appear as one.

    It describes a disciplinary habit more than an individual choice. In experimental sciences twenty authors are the norm, in agricultural economics much less so: comparing the two worlds with this number would make no sense.

    Co-authors in the field

    People of the 07/AGRI-01 field with whom the person has signed at least one paper. External co-authors, who are the majority, are not counted.

    Mean SJR and Q1 share

    SJR is the outlet prestige indicator computed by SCImago; the quartile places the journal within its category. The Q1 share is the percentage of papers published in first-quartile journals. They concern the outlet, not the single paper: a rarely cited article in a Q1 journal remains rarely cited.

    Papers in the top 5% most cited

    The comparison is made within the publication year, because a 2010 paper has had fifteen years to collect citations and a 2024 one has not. For each year the papers of the corpus are taken, excluding reviews, and the threshold is the number of citations of the paper in position ⌈n × 5%⌉. Years not yet concluded are excluded.

    Sources and limitations

    Bibliographic data from Scopus (Elsevier), quartiles and SJR from SCImago. Each profile is built from a Scopus author identifier: a duplicate, incomplete or contaminated profile affects all indicators. If something looks wrong, it can be reported from the personal area.

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