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

Short food supply chains

Research topic of the field
201
publications
6,375
citations
189
researchers
33
institutions
61%
in Q1 journals
The topics most often intertwined with this one, year by year
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Indicators
Output and impact
91
publications since 2021
69
publications 2016–2020
+32%
compared with 2016–2020
17%
share signed by the most active 5%

The last share tells how far the topic passes through few hands: in the field it ranges from 12% to 39%. 17% means that the topic is widespread, with no recognisable centre. Signatures are counted, not papers: an article with four authors on the topic weighs four times, because the question is how much of the work passes through few people.

Trend over time and quality of outlets

Publications per year

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'07
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'09
2
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4
'11
2
'12
7
'13
9
'14
17
'15
11
'16
14
'17
15
'18
18
'19
11
'20
15
'21
11
'22
19
'23
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'24
18
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Journal quartiles (SJR · SCImago)

183with SJR
Q1 111 (61%)
Q2 39 (21%)
Q3 15 (8%)
Q4 18 (10%)
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People
Who works on it

Most active researchers on the topic

By papers on the topic. The last column still shows specialisation, to tell apart those who work on it a lot in absolute terms from those who work on it above all.

NameInstitutionPapers on the topich-indexSpecialisation
Giuseppina Migliore Università degli Studi di Palermo 15 29
9.15
Giorgio Schifani Università degli Studi di Palermo 13 28
9.49
Riccardo Testa Università degli Studi di Palermo 9 30
6.44
Luigi Cembalo Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II 8 35
3.59
Giovanni Belletti Università degli Studi di Firenze 7 20
6.38
Marcello De Rosa Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale 7 19
4.47
Antonino Galati Università degli Studi di Palermo 7 39
2.41
Andrea Marescotti Università degli Studi di Firenze 7 18
8.93
Davide Marino Università degli Studi del Molise 7 20
5.43
Teresa Del Giudice Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II 6 30
2.76
Emanuele Schimmenti Università degli Studi di Palermo 6 21
4.56
Filippo Sgroi Università degli Studi di Palermo 6 33
2.38
Stefano Pascucci Foreign institutions 6 33
3.60
Francesco Bimbo Università degli Studi di Foggia 5 20
3.82
Valeria Borsellino Università degli Studi di Palermo 5 16
5.17

Who is most specialised in this topic

Not those who published the most on it, but those who devote the largest share of their output to it compared with the field average. Above 1 there is specialisation; the tick marks parity. Researchers with fewer than three papers on the topic are excluded.

NameInstitutionPapers on the topicSpecialisation
Giorgio Schifani Università degli Studi di Palermo 13
9.49
Giuseppina Migliore Università degli Studi di Palermo 15
9.15
Andrea Marescotti Università degli Studi di Firenze 7
8.93
Riccardo Testa Università degli Studi di Palermo 9
6.44
Giovanni Belletti Università degli Studi di Firenze 7
6.38
Davide Marino Università degli Studi del Molise 7
5.43
Valeria Borsellino Università degli Studi di Palermo 5
5.17
Emanuele Schimmenti Università degli Studi di Palermo 6
4.56
Marcello De Rosa Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale 7
4.47
Francesco Bimbo Università degli Studi di Foggia 5
3.82

Most active institutions

The number tells how much work on the topic comes from each institution; specialisation tells how much the topic weighs within the institution compared with the field average. A small, focused institution can be more specialised than a large one that does everything.

InstitutionPapers on the topicSpecialisation
Università degli Studi di Palermo 71
3.11
Università degli Studi di Firenze 45
1.73
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna 35
1.17
Università degli Studi di Parma 26
2.10
Università degli Studi di Catania 25
0.95
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II 25
1.27
Università di Pisa 24
1.65
Università degli Studi di Foggia 20
0.89
Università degli Studi del Molise 20
2.58
Foreign institutions 19
0.85
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Where
In Italy and worldwide

Institutions in Italy

32institutions of the field work on the topic (with at least one paper)
  1. Palermo28
  2. Bologna23
  3. Firenze18
  4. Napoli Federico II (Portici)16
  5. Pisa16
  6. Parma14
  7. Catania13
  8. Molise (Campobasso)11
24 more institutions on the map · circles proportional to papers on the topic

International collaboration

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    Research
    Topics, journals and publications

    Related topics

    The topics that most often appear in the same papers. The number is the papers in common.

    Food supply chains · 107 Network analysis · 69 Consumer behaviour · 39 Governance and institutions · 37 Sustainability assessment · 33 Urban agriculture and urban food policy · 26

    Recurring keywords

    short food supply chainalternative food networklocal foodfarmer marketsustainabilitydirect salelocal food systemconsumerfood systemorganic foodconsumer behaviorfarmerfood securityorganic farmingrural developmentsustainable consumptionchoice experimentagroecologycase studycommunity supported agriculturefood policygovernancelocal food policytheory of planned behavior

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