ArgumentFollowing an international trend, Italy has reformed its university system, especially concerning methods and tools for research evaluation, which are increasingly focused on a number of bibliometric indexes. To study the effects of these changes, we analyze the changing profiles of economists who have won competitions for full professorship in the last few decades in the country. We concentrate on individual characteristics and on scientific production. We show that the identification of a univocal and standardized concept of “research quality” within the new research assessments has progressively imposed a strategy of “homologation,” especially for women. We find that women economists are at a higher risk of discrimination than their male colleagues and thus they are more likely to conform their research activities to the standardized profile imposed by the gender-blind application of simplistic bibliometric methods.

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意大利学术界玻璃天花板的演变：经济学案例

论据顺应国际趋势，意大利对其大学体系进行了改革，特别是在研究评估的方法和工具方面，越来越关注一些文献计量指标。为了研究这些变化的影响，我们分析了过去几十年在该国赢得正教授职位竞争的经济学家的变化情况。我们专注于个性化和科学生产。我们表明，在新的研究评估中确定一个单一且标准化的“研究质量”概念已经逐步实施了一种“认证”策略，尤其是针对女性。