📑 Workshops
Seminars and training sessions organized within the framework of the AHSC project. These events aim to promote knowledge sharing among the research units and with external stakeholders.
Final Workshop: The Value of Scientific Production for Patient Care in Academic Health Science Centres
Date: February 27, 2026
Location: Room C16 - Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES), Monte Sant’Angelo University Campus, Via Cinthia No. 21, 80126 - Naples
This final workshop examines the relationship between research performance and healthcare outcomes in Italian public Academic Health Science Centres. The event provides tools to evaluate whether academic research drives healthcare quality, patient choice, and case-mix complexity using bibliometric and scientometric methods.
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Schedule:
- 09:00 - 09:30 | Institutional Greetings
- 09:30 - 10:00 | Introduction: Corrado Cuccurullo (Principal Investigator)
- 10:00 - 10:30 | Understanding the Dimensions of AHCs - Massimo Aria, Corrado Cuccurullo
- 10:30 - 11:00 | A Comprehensive Assessment of Scientific, Social, and Industrial Impact in Academic Health Centres - Massimo Aria, Luca D’Aniello, Maria Spano
- 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break
- 11:15 - 11:45 | Grants, Patents, and Clinical Trials as Performance Indicators in Academic Health Centres: A Typological Comparison - Carmela Iorio, Massimo Aria, Agostino Gnasso
- 11:45 - 12:15 | Assessing Academic Health Centres Through Online Reviews: A Sentiment-Based Approach - Massimo Aria, Maria Spano, Luca D’Aniello, Agostino Gnasso
- 12:15 - 12:45 | Rhetorical Moves as Indicators of Disciplinary Communication Patterns in Health - Walter Giordano
- 12:45 | Roundtable and Conclusions: Communication, Dissemination, and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
Date: June 10, 2025
Location: Department of Economics and Statistics (DiSES), University of Naples Federico II
This workshop marks a key milestone in the AHSC project, presenting the project website, data repository structure, and analytical framework. The event introduces the main performance indicators developed to evaluate Italian public Academic Health Science Centres across multiple dimensions: bibliometric impact, social and digital engagement, industrial innovation, clinical research activity, and funding capacity.
The workshop provides an overview of the data collection strategy, the structure of the relational database, and the preliminary design of the interactive dashboard. It also discusses dissemination strategies and outreach activities to maximize the project’s impact on research policy and decision-making.
🤝 Team Meetings
Internal coordination meetings held among members of the AHSC research team. These moments serve to align the progress of activities, plan next steps, and ensure coherence across units and work packages.
October 17, 2023
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Main Topics:
- Official project kick-off and team introduction
- Overview of project objectives and expected deliverables
- Organization of project activities and timeline
- Distribution of responsibilities across research units (University of Naples Federico II and University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli)
- Definition of coordination mechanisms and meeting schedule
- Initial discussion on data sources (OpenAlex, Dimensions, PubMed, Altmetric)
December 12, 2023
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Main Topics:
- Progress update on Phase 1: Data Collection
- Review of data retrieval from OpenAlex and Dimensions databases
- Discussion on affiliation disambiguation strategies and ROR identifiers
- Technical implementation of R packages (dimensionsR, pubmedR, openalexR)
- Planning for data cleaning and normalization procedures
- Identification of the 49 Italian public Academic Health Science Centres to be included
- Challenges in institutional matching and proposed solutions
March 20, 2024
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Main Topics:
- Shared review of available data types across multiple sources
- Reflection on possible methodological advances for data integration
- Status update on bibliometric and scientometric metadata collection
- Discussion on data merging strategies at micro-level (DOI) and macro-level (affiliations)
- Project reporting: milestones achieved and next steps
- Preparation of PRISMA-based data cleaning workflow
April 4, 2024
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Main Topics:
- Shared discussion of measured indicators across the five performance dimensions:
- 📚 Bibliometric dimension (productivity, impact, collaboration, talent, topics)
- 🌐 Social & Digital dimension (altmetric scores, online engagement)
- 🧬 Industrial impact & Research innovation (patents, technological domains)
- 🧪 Clinical Research activity (clinical trials, phases, participants)
- 💶 Funding & grants (competitive grants, funding volumes, success rates)
- Planning of upcoming conference presentations and scientific dissemination
- Progress on the R-daisy synthetic performance indicator tool
- Discussion on data visualization strategies and user experience design
September 27, 2024
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Main Topics:
- Review of Phase 2 outputs: conceptual and social knowledge structures
- Presentation of thematic evolution analysis and strategic diagrams
- Discussion on co-word analysis results and emerging research themes
- Review of collaboration networks at macro, meso, and micro levels
- Planning for Phase 3: Web-app design and implementation
- Updates on bibliometrix package upgrades for scientometric metadata
- Preparation of scientific articles and conference submissions
November 20, 2024
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Main Topics:
- Review of user interface mockups and dashboard design
- Discussion on role-based access and functionalities for different user types (citizens, professionals, policymakers)
- Progress on R-daisy consensus ranking algorithm implementation
- Planning for the validation phase and focus group organization
- Preparation of workshop materials for stakeholder engagement
- Discussion on open-science dissemination strategies (GitHub, open data repositories)
February 20, 2025
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Main Topics:
- Preparation for usability testing with target audiences
- Organization of first focus group with healthcare professionals and citizens
- Discussion on feedback collection mechanisms
- Planning for Phase 4 validation activities
- Updates on scientific publications submitted and accepted
- Preparation of final project workshop and book presentation
- Timeline for project closure and final deliverables
May 12, 2025
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Main Topics:
- Results from usability testing and focus group feedback
- Final adjustments to AHSC and R-daisy tools
- Preparation of project website and documentation
- Planning of final workshop with stakeholder roundtable
- Discussion on project sustainability and future developments