Full Professor of Economics since 2006. Previously, I was a researcher at the University of Florence. I have done post-doctoral research at the University of Florence and at Université Paris IX-Dauphine.
I started my research activity by working on the history of economic thought and applied economics. In particular, I worked on the history of decision theory under uncertainty, becoming an expert on the work of Francis Y. Edgeworth. For more than 10 years, I have been working on various topics of science of science. In particular, I have worked on the properties and limitations of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation. Currently, my main line of research is the application of network analysis to the exploration of scientific communities from the perspective of both intellectual and social relations.
I am one of the founders and a member of the editorial board of the blog www.roars.it dedicated to research policy and evaluation.