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

Spatial analysis and GIS

Research topic of the field
276
publications
7,114
citations
157
researchers
35
institutions
66%
in Q1 journals
The topics most often intertwined with this one, year by year
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Indicators
Output and impact
115
publications since 2021
96
publications 2016–2020
+20%
compared with 2016–2020
21%
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%. 21% means that the topic has some reference groups but remains widespread. 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

1
'06
0
'07
1
'08
4
'09
4
'10
4
'11
4
'12
16
'13
12
'14
16
'15
22
'16
23
'17
11
'18
24
'19
16
'20
19
'21
23
'22
16
'23
17
'24
20
'25

Journal quartiles (SJR · SCImago)

253with SJR
Q1 167 (66%)
Q2 47 (19%)
Q3 25 (10%)
Q4 14 (6%)
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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
Sandro Sacchelli Università degli Studi di Firenze 18 20
9.73
Iacopo Bernetti Università degli Studi di Firenze 16 21
7.66
Mario Cozzi Università degli Studi della Basilicata 14 15
10.35
Severino Romano Università degli Studi della Basilicata 14 16
9.60
Francesco Riccioli Università di Pisa 13 18
8.12
Mauro Viccaro Università degli Studi della Basilicata 13 16
11.42
Antonio Boggia Università degli Studi di Perugia 12 24
6.36
Maria De Salvo Università degli Studi di Messina 12 14
6.42
Flavio Lupia CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia 12 16
12.49
Claudio Fagarazzi Università degli Studi di Firenze 11 11
11.71
Giovanni Signorello Università degli Studi di Catania 11 18
6.15
Giuseppe Pulighe CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia 11 18
10.66
Marta Debolini Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici 11 14
10.66
Francesco Pagliacci Università degli Studi di Padova 9 17
4.68
Lucia Rocchi Università degli Studi di Perugia 9 21
4.44

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
Flavio Lupia CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia 12
12.49
Claudio Fagarazzi Università degli Studi di Firenze 11
11.71
Mauro Viccaro Università degli Studi della Basilicata 13
11.42
Giuseppe Pulighe CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia 11
10.66
Marta Debolini Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici 11
10.66
Mario Cozzi Università degli Studi della Basilicata 14
10.35
Sandro Sacchelli Università degli Studi di Firenze 18
9.73
Severino Romano Università degli Studi della Basilicata 14
9.60
Francesco Riccioli Università di Pisa 13
8.12
Iacopo Bernetti Università degli Studi di Firenze 16
7.66

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 Firenze 86
3.30
Università degli Studi della Basilicata 57
4.34
CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia 57
1.91
Università degli Studi di Catania 51
1.08
Università degli Studi di Perugia 33
1.90
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna 30
0.67
Università degli Studi di Padova 30
0.96
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro 26
1.55
Università di Pisa 24
1.80
Università degli Studi del Molise 21
2.12
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Where
In Italy and worldwide

Institutions in Italy

34institutions of the field work on the topic (with at least one paper)
  1. CREA-PB (Roma)44
  2. Firenze44
  3. Catania25
  4. Basilicata (Potenza)24
  5. Pisa23
  6. Bologna19
  7. Padova (Legnaro)19
  8. Molise (Campobasso)15
26 more institutions on the map · circles proportional to papers on the topic

International collaboration

    04
    Research
    Topics, journals and publications

    Related topics

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

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    Recurring keywords

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