INGV ranks first in Italy for productivity

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology ? at the top for productivity? science among Italian research institutions and competes

closely with the main international research institutions in the same field of expertise. To certify it? a research

created by SCImago (SIR World Report 2010), a company? international company that deals precisely with valorisation and

activity monitoring of research and productivity? science of international research institutions. In this way

SCImago manages not only to calculate how many articles researchers write, but also how much they are cited within their specific

field of search and how many times they manage to publish on the pi? important international scientific journals, those cio? more read and

deemed more trusted by the same community? of researchers. So, if in a general analysis that measures the quantity? of research

produced the INGV turns out to be only 1298th in the world ranking, in the particular one that concerns the citation by subject and

the capacity? to publish in the main magazines it becomes among the first in Italy and in the world. Particularly in the sector ranking,

that what? that deals with comparing the quality? of a research institute with others active in the same disciplinary sector, in this

case Earth Sciences, the INGV reaches a value that ? 43 percent higher than the world average. Second in Italy,

behind the Italian Institute of Technology (77 percent) and just one percentage point below the prestigious US Geological

Survey what? instead at 44 percent. As for the classification that measures the capacity? to see your articles

published in the best magazines in the world, the INGV ? first overall in Italy with a success rate of 69,44

percent what? superior to that of the colleagues of the US Geological Survey itself, but also to those of MIT in Boston, of the

Cornell University, and of the Universities? of Cambridge and Berkeley.