In February, oncology, neurosciences, and biology were the subjects of interest to the greatest number of publications by Italian researchers and laboratories. Monitoring of the leading international scientific journals (Science, Nature, PNAS-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, National Science Review and Scientific Reports, all placed by SCImago Journal Rank in the top 5 for scientific impact) has yielded 12 studies involving 40 research centres.
For neurosciences, two articles were published in Science, with the contribution of Istituto Neurologico C. Besta and Università di Pisa, while Nature ran a study done thanks to the Tactile Perception and Learning Laboratory, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.
Oncology was featured in four publications: three in Science, with the contributions of Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Università di Padova, IRCCS San Martino in Genoa, and the Department of Oncology and Haemetology at Azienda Ospedaliera di Cosenza, while an article in PNAS involved RCCS Regina Elena, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and Università Cattolica, all in Rome.
In biology, two articles published by PNAS were done by Università di Sassari and Università di Roma-La Sapienza, in collaboration with Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) and Unione Internazionale per la Conservazione della Natura, as well as by MUSE, Museo delle Scienze di Trento.
Astrophysics was also covered, with some discoveries by the international project Einstein@Home, which saw the collaboration of numerous Italian sections of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclare, along with Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the departments of physics and astronomy of the universities of Trieste, Padua, Bari, and Perugia, as well as Università Telematica Pegaso. Lastly, in archaeology, a PNAS article on the Italian site Poggetti Vecchi involved the superintendence of Siena, Grosseto, and Arezzo, the universities of Florence and Trento, and the national research centre (CNR), Florence.
MONITORED ARTICLES 12
ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS: 40