Research Infrastructures for Open Science in Social Science Research
Description
This open access book provides a comprehensive exploration of research infrastructures (RIs) for open social science research, drawing on the case study of the FOSSR project. It covers the theoretical foundations, policy contexts, and FAIR data principles, before diving into the FOSSR project's research areas, governance, and capacity building strategies. The final sections focus on computational social science, collaborative research models, and future challenges in open science. With its interdisciplinary perspective and actionable insights, this book serves as a useful resource for researchers, policymakers, and data scientists working in the realm of open social science.
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Giovanni Cerulli is research director at IRCrES-CNR, Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, National Research Council of Italy, Unit of Rome. His research interest is in applied econometrics, with a special focus on causal inference, program evaluation, and machine learning applied to various fields of socio-economic science. Giovanni has developed original causal inference models, such as dose-response and treatment models with social interaction providing Stata implementation. He has developed around twenty Stata commands for casual inference and machine learning working also on Stata/Python/R integration for this purpose. Giovanni is author of the book Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs: Theory and Applications (Springer, 2015; second edition 2022), and of the book Fundamentals of Supervised Machine Learning: with Applications in Python, R, and Stata (Springer, 2023). He has published his papers in several high-quality scientific journals, and is currently editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics.
Emanuela Reale , sociologist, has been director of the Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - IRCrES CNR until 2023 and currently is associate senior at IRCrES. Her research areas are higher education and research policies, with a focus on governance, R&D funding, research evaluation, STI indicators. Emanuela was principal researcher and coordinator of several international and national projects -most recent the RISIS European infrastructure for science technology and innovation research, the PRIN2017 on the effects of evaluation on the academic work, and the FOSSR PNRR-IR project. Emanuela is President of the European Forum for Studies on Research and Innovation Policies-EU-SPRI and co-Editor of Research Evaluation. Emanuela has published and is a reviewer in numerous international journals and books.
Content
Part 1. Infrastructures and Open Science in Social Science Research - An Overview.- Chapter 1. Research Infrastructures: Concepts and Roles (Giovanni Cerulli, Emanuela Reale).- Chapter 2. Research Infrastructures and the Open Science Roadmap: European and Italian Strategies and Policies (Massimiliano Saccone, Daniele Bruschi, Marco Sprocati, Alessandra Maria Stilo).- Chapter 3. From Principles to Practices: FAIR Data and the Infrastructural Turn in Social Sciences (Sonia Stefanizzi, Domingo Scisci).- Chapter 4. Ethical Issues in a Research Infrastructure for Empirical Social Sciences (Cinzia Caporale, Giulia Sciolli, Roberta Martina Zagarella).- Part 2. The FOSSR Contribution to Research Focus Areas.- Chapter 5. Project Background Objectives and Impact (Giovanni Cerulli, Emanuela Reale).- Chapter 6. Probabilistic Surveys to Monitor Population and Societal Change (Loredana Cerbara, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Giulio Ecchia, Dario Germani, Letizia Mencarini, Claudia Pennacchiotti, Ilaria Primerano, Michele Santurro, Luciana Taddei, Cristiano Vezzoni, Guglielmo Weber).- Chapter 7. Investigating the Transformation of Societal Ideas, Values and Civicness: The Contribution of Panel Data and CIVES Observatory (Andrea Simone, Andrea Orazio Spinello, Emanuela Reale, Salvatore Vassallo).- Chapter 8. Poolpo: An Online Platform for Large-scale and Long-term Behavioral Experiments to Study the Causal Mechanisms of Individual and Social Behavior (Giulia Andrighetto, Maria Bigoni, Eva Vriens).- Chapter 9. Supporting Evidence-Based Policy Making via the FOSSR's Policy Learning Platform (PLP) (Giovanni Cerulli, Barbara Guardabascio, Fabrizio De Fausti, Federico Brogi, Salvatore Riegler).- Chapter 10. New Modes of Knowledge Production to Address Societal Challenges (Antonio Zinilli, Emanuela Varinetti, Lorenzo Giammei, Andrea Orazio Spinello, Andrea Simone, Emanuela Reale).- Chapter 11. Deepening the Structure of the National Industrial System (Massimiliano Guerini, Massimo Gaetano Colombo).- Chapter 12. Building the RIs Facility for Open Science (Mario Ciampi, Mario Sicuranza).- Chapter 13. Governance and Collaboration for Impact (Daniele Bruschi, Daniela De Gregorio, Alessia Fava, Maria Elisa Rosati Massimiliano Saccone, Marco Sprocati).- Chapter 14. Enhancing Skills, Building Capacity: the FOSSR Approach to Training in Social Science Research Infrastructures (Andrea Orazio Spinello, Serena Fabrizio, Claudia Pennacchiotti).- Chapter 15. Communication Engagement and Community Building: Enabling the Use of Research Infrastructures (Serena Fabrizio, Rita Giuffredi, Erica Rizziato, Alessandra Maria Stilo, Elisa Storace, Valentina Tudisca).- Part 3. Theoretical Perspectives and Methods.- Chapter 16. Collaborative Research Models (Massimiliano Assante, Elisa Molinaro).- Chapter 17. Computational Social Science (Rocco Paolillo, Giusy Giulia Tuccari, Sara Zuppiroli, Carmelo Fabio Longo, Giovanni Cerulli, Antonio Zinilli, Lorenzo Giammei, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Francesco Poggi, Misael Mongiovì, Miguel Ceriani).- Conclusions: Contributing to Global and National Trends in Open Science: Challenges and Future Directions (Giovanni Cerulli, Emanuela Reale).