#12356. The impact of the Italian Space Agency on scientific knowledge: Evidence from academic publications

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Industrial and research activities in the space sector involve a heterogeneous group of actors such as private and public firms, universities, research institutes and space agencies, collaborating to different stages of missions’ realization. Such collaborations are associated to the creation of spillover effects, proxied in different ways, such as the number of patents recorded, post-graduate students involved, spin-off activities and co-authored papers. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the collaboration between universities /research institutes and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). We focus on papers where the authors acknowledge grants received by ASI. We use data on publications and citations to capture the association between ASI funding of a large number of scientific articles and the quality of research, proxied by the number of citations received. We find that articles mentioning ASI in the funding information are associated to a higher citation impact with respect to articles not financially supported by ASI. Such result suggests a positive impact on the scientific community of public funds granted to universities and research institutes.
Keywords:
citation impact; Italian Space Agency; public financial support; public procurement

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