In April, biology, psychology, and various medical disciplines recorded the greatest number of publications by Italian 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, placed by SCImago Journal Rank in the top 5 for scientific impact) yielded 20 articles involving 32 research centres.
In its “news” section, Nature continued to recount the astrophysics research conducted by Italian laboratories, stressing the contribution of the Virgo Interferometer near Pisa (April 11 – How gravitational waves could solve some of the Universe’s deepest mysteries).
Moreover, in the its “Week in Science” column, the journal speaks of the new € 500 million investment towards experiments in nuclear fusion conducted by the agency ENEA in Frascati; Nature has also published an article by the researcher Lia Paola Zambetti on how to convert one’s weaknesses into opportunities for a career in science (April 10 – Convert your weaknesses into assets). PNAS covers medicine with two studies including the participation of researchers from the University of Catania and the Department of Bioengineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. The journal also includes a physics article by SISSA in Trieste along with CNR, and one on biology with the collaboration of IRCCS (Scientific Research and Health Care Institute) San Raffaele, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and the University of Salerno.
Scientific Reports has published numerous research works by Italian laboratories. In biology, the publications have involved Policlinico S. Orsola in Bologna; CRI Centre for Research and Innovation, Fondazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all’Adige; the University of Florence, the University of Milan and ICS Maugeri in Pavia. In medicine, various studies have involved Sapienza University of Roma, University of Naples Federico II, Istituto Nazionale Tumori “Fondazione G. Pascale,” and CNR of Naples; the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; the ’University and CNR of Pisa, along with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna; IRCCS Mario Negri, and Fondazione Ca’ Granda in Milan.
In psychology, Scientific Reports has published articles by the University of Padua and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento. Space is also devoted to veterinary medicine and marine biology, with a research work by Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, and to studies by the Tuscia University, and those of Siena and Messina.
MONITORED ARTICLES: 20
ITALIAN RESEARCH CENTERS: 32