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# Education

-   **Ph.D. in Computational Statistics and Applications**, University of Naples Federico II, 2004\
    Dissertation focused on the development of a general methodological and applied framework for classification and regression trees (CART).
-   **Laurea cum laude in Economics**, University of Naples Federico II, 2000

# Academic Positions

-   **Full Professor**, Statistics for Social Sciences (SECS-S/05), University of Naples Federico II (2019 – present)
-   **Associate Professor**, Statistics for Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II (2014 – 2019)
-   **Assistant Professor**, Statistics for Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II (2007 – 2014)
-   **Post-doctoral Research Fellow**, Federico II / CRC Transport (2004 – 2005)

# Research Leadership

-   **Co-founder**, <a href=”https://www.k-synth.com” target=”_blank”>K-Synth srl</a> – Academic spin-off specialized in knowledge extraction and intelligence from large-scale heterogeneous data (2021–present)
-   **Co-coordinator**, PMP Lab – Performance Measurement & Management in Professions, Dept. of Economics and Statistics, Federico II (2019–present)
-   **Coordinator**, Bibliometrics & Science Mapping Research Group – Federico II & Univ. L. Vanvitelli (2010–present). <a href=”https://www.bibliometrix.org” target=”_blank”>www.bibliometrix.org</a>

# Institutional Roles

### Ongoing Roles

-   **Member of the Executive Board**, Department of Economics and Statistics
-   **Member of the Research Committee**, Department of Economics and Statistics
-   **Responsible for the Research Quality Assessment (VQR)**, Department of Economics and Statistics
-   **Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Programme in Economics** at the University of Naples Federico II
-   **Board member** of the **Master’s degree in Data Science** and in **Economics** (curriculum: Data Scientist for Economics) since 2019
-   **Scientific coordinator** for the Department in the following University-wide Task Forces:
    -   *Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Development*
    -   *SUM (Smart and Sustainable Mobility)*
    -   *Human & Future*
-   **Scientific coordinator of the IT laboratories** of the Department of Economics and Statistics

### Past Roles

-   Board member for over 20 years of the **Ph.D. programs in Computational Statistics** and **Social Sciences and Statistics**
-   **Member of the core design team for the new Master’s Degree Programme in Data Science** at the University of Naples Federico II
-   Served as **Researchers’ Representative** on the Faculty Council (2007–2011)

# Scientific Results & Impact

Author of over **200 scientific articles** published in international journals, of which **38** rated “A” (top tier) by the Italian Agency of University Research Evaluation (ANVUR).

Total citations: **26,100** | H-Index: **43** | Last 5 years: **23,200** citations, H-Index **38** (Google Scholar)

The 2017 paper *”bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis”* (*Journal of Informetrics*) is the **most cited article ever published** in the journal (Scopus: 10,300+ | Google Scholar: 19,100+ citations) and a top-downloaded article.

# Research Interests

My research activities span a wide range of areas in computational and applied statistics, with a strong focus on methodological development and empirical applications. In particular:

-   **Bibliometrics & Science Mapping**: Statistical techniques for analyzing publication patterns, impact assessment, and systematic literature reviews
-   **Text Mining and NLP**: Corpus analysis of scientific literature and textual datasets
-   **Machine Learning**: Tree-based models, ensemble methods, neural networks, clustering, and factorial methods
-   **Missing Data Imputation**: Recursive, incremental algorithms for imputing missing values in qualitative and quantitative data
-   **Computational Statistics**: Development of estimation algorithms and numerical procedures
-   **Statistical Survey Design**: Design and execution of socio-economic surveys and customer satisfaction studies

# Research Projects

-   **PRIN 2022** – SciK-Health: Mapping Scientific Knowledge about health for decision-making. Role: Principal Investigator (2023-2025)
-   **PRIN 2022 PNRR** – Scientific production for patient care in Academic Health Science Centres. Role: Local Scientific Coordinator (2023-2025)
-   **PNC Digital Health** (WP2 PI) – PNRR-funded ecosystem (2023–2025)
-   PI, local PI, or senior researcher in:
    -   5 EU-funded projects (incl. H2020 MAGIC, ERC AdG RoDyMan)
    -   3 PNRR projects
    -   3 PRIN projects
    -   1 FIRB project
    -   11+ national and regional research initiatives

# Scientific Software

-   **Bibliometrix & Biblioshiny**\
    R package and web-app for comprehensive science mapping and bibliometric analysis. 1,350,000+ installations; 200+ community video tutorials
-   **TAll – Text Analysis for All**\
    R/Shiny app for NLP: text mining, topic modeling, sentiment analysis
-   **E2Tree**\
    Explainable Ensemble Trees: interpreting Random Forest and XGBoost models via single tree-like structures
-   **contentanalysis**\
    Tools for extracting and analyzing scientific content from PDFs, including citation extraction and reference matching
-   **OpenalexR**\
    R client for the OpenAlex API, facilitating access to open bibliographic metadata for scholarly publications
-   **DimensionsR**\
    R interface to the Dimensions API for bibliometric data extraction and analysis
-   **PubmedR**\
    R interface to the PubMed API for literature retrieval and analysis
-   **PLS-SEM Matlab Toolbox**\
    Matlab/Octave package for Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Models

# Teaching Experience

-   Courses taught (BSc, MSc, Ph.D.):
    -   **Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis**
    -   **Sampling Surveys**
    -   **Statistical Methods for Evaluation**
    -   **Machine Learning Laboratory in R**
    -   **Bibliometric Analysis using R** (Ph.D. and Summer Schools)
-   Faculty member of the **European Summer School of Scientometrics (ESSS)**
-   Scientific Coordinator of the **Summer School in Science Mapping (SSSM)**
-   Held 60+ invited seminars at doctoral schools across Europe
-   Supervisor of 150+ MSc theses and multiple Ph.D. dissertations

# Editorial and Scientific Activities

-   **Section Editor in Chief**, *American Journal of Oral Medicine* (Statistics)
-   **Associate Editor**, *Journal of Oral Pathology and Medicine* (Wiley)
-   **Editorial Board**, *Nature Scientific Reports*, *Sustainability*
-   **Reviewer** for 30+ journals incl. Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics, EJOR, CSDA, Expert Systems with Applications, Health Policy, The R Journal
-   Member of the **Scientific Committee** of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics

# Scientific Societies

-   *International Statistical Institute* (ISI)
-   *International Association for Statistical Computing* (IASC)
-   *Società Italiana di Statistica* (SIS)
-   *Associazione di Statistica Applicata* (ASA)
-   *Associazione Italiana Studi di Popolazione* (AISP)

# Languages

-   **Italian**: Native
-   **English**: Fluent (academic and professional proficiency)

# Technical Skills

-   **Programming**: R (primary), Matlab, Python, C++
-   **Tools**: LaTeX, Git, Quarto, SPSS, SAS
-   **Frameworks**: RStudio, Shiny, Positron, Plotly
-   **Reproducible Research**: Quarto, RMarkdown, version-controlled workflows