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Spotlight needed on Italian policy

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The battle about the long-awaited reform of Italian research policy1 is taking place behind closed doors, and the scientific community is in the dark. There is no indication that there will be a transparent system of peer review2 in the near future. Indeed, any discussion of reform will continue to be abstract and ineffective so long as there are no objective indicators of scientific performance.

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Giulio de Leo, Gianmarco Paris & Marino Gatto

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universit degli Studi, Viale delle Scienze, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Paolo Menozzi

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de Leo, G., Paris, G., Gatto, M. et al. Spotlight needed on Italian policy. Nature 391, 12 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/34017

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