In May, Biology, neurosciences and various medical disciplines recorded the greatest number of publications by Italian laboratories, with 31 articles involving 74 research centres.
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 e Scientific Reports, placed by SCImago Journal Rank in the top 5 for scientific impact) yielded 5 studies dedicated to biology published in Science, Scientific Reports and PNAS and developed with the contribution of the Universities of Siena, Florence, Milan, Padua, Perugia, Rome, Naples – Federico II, Calabria, and Basilicata, as well as SISSA in Trieste, some CNR centres, and Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale.
On the other hand, 4 articles have been dedicated to neurosciences, published in Scientific Reports and developed with the contribution of the Universities of Cagliari, Pisa, Florence, and Palermo, in addition to various CNR centres and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. For the other medical disciplines (from oncology to cardiology, as well as data science applied to diagnostics), 13 studies have been published in Scientific Reports, Science and PNAS. The laboratories involved are those of the Universities of Rome (Sapienza, Tor Vergata and Università Cattolica), Milan, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Bari, and Naples – Federico II, as well as Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and CNR.
Data Science in the healthcare environment is also dealt with by Francesca Dominici, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard’s Department of Public Health, and Co-Director of that university’s Data Science Initiative. Interviewed by the Aspen site, Dominici explains how data science can bring considerable (economic and health) benefits in the area of public health.
MONITORED ARTICLES: 31
ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS: 74