Alberto Baccini is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Siena. His current fields of specialization include bibliometrics, scientometrics and history of economic thought (uncertainty and probability).
Baccini is one of the founders and of editors of Roars, www.roars.it, a collective blog (in Italian) dedicated to the monitoring and critical examination of policy measures and trends in higher education and public research. Baccini is the Editor in chief of RT. A Journal on Research Policy and Evaluation https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/roars/index. From 2012 to 2015 he was president of STOREP (Italian Association for the HiSToRy of Political Economy). In 1995, Baccini completed his PhD in History of Economics from the University of Florence.
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Article By Alberto Baccini, ​Giuseppe De Nicolao, and Eugenio Petrovich |	Oct 3, 2019
Article By Alberto Baccini |	Jul 27, 2018
Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn't a fluke nor a conspiracy—it exposes how citation rankings really work
Paper Conference paper |	By Alberto Baccini |	May 2018
Alberto Baccini's presentation for INET's panel on research evaluation at the G20 Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, May 2018.
Article By Alberto Baccini and ​Giuseppe De Nicolao |	Jan 18, 2018
The shocking—but illustrative—example of how an Italian government agency concocted statistics to evaluate scholarship, hid them from the public, and masqueraded them as science. It's a growing phenomenon
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INET/YSI Pre-conference @ STOREP 2019
YSI Event Workshop YSI |	Jun 25–27, 2019
The Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) announce a day and a half of lectures, workshops, and debates held on the 26th and 27th of June, just before the annual STOREP conference, in Siena, Italy.