Tindaro Cicero graduated cum laude in Statistics from the University of Messina in 2008, earned a Master of Science degree in 2011 and a PhD degree in 2012 in Business Engineering at University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He is now working at ANVUR, the Italian Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research, and since 2017 he is leader of the "National Scientific Qualification and post-graduate degrees accreditation" unit. His main research interests are statistics applied to research evaluation and bibliometrics.
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Scipione Sarlo The latest Italian National Evaluation of Research Quality exercise carried out by ANVUR, referred to the period 2015-2019 (VQR 2015-2019), has tackled for the first time the concept of open-access publications: according to VQR rules, scientific publications submitted for evaluation and financed at least by 50% with public fundings should have been made available to the public by July 30th, 2022; their list was published on the ANVUR website. In this paper, two major issues are investigated: first, we analyse the magnitude and incidence of Open Access publications among those submitted for evaluation across scientific fields and geographic areas. Secondly, we identify the articles published in DOAJ indexed journals and compare their evaluation outcomes with those of the articles appeared in journals that are not in the list.