Recommendations on CoNISMa membership obligations regarding scientific publications
The CoNISMa Administrative Council would like to draw the attention of all members and collaborators to the importance of indicating their affiliation with CoNISMa, alongside that of their university, on publications resulting from projects, contracts and research managed by our Consortium.
We suggest and recommend that this affiliation be indicated as follows:
‘CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio 9, 00197 Rome. Italy’
Some members and collaborators already indicate their affiliation with CoNISMa, but many, too many, still do not.
This requirement emerged during the 2004-2010 VQR and the 2011-2014 VQR.
For the purposes of evaluation, the Consortium was able to present the scientific publications of its accredited members, but only those clearly attributable to CoNISMa itself.
Unfortunately, we had to forego presenting some valid publications because they did not mention affiliation with the Consortium or CoNISMa in the acknowledgements of the publication itself.
We are confident that with your cooperation, these situations will not occur again.
Furthermore, we would like to emphasise that affiliation with CoNISMa allows for external visibility, benefiting both the Consortium and its affiliates, who can use the networks of which CoNISMa is a part.
In fact, CoNISMa participates in various European networks of excellence and has strongly consolidated its relationships with other Italian research bodies.
For the reasons outlined above and in the joint interest of the Consortium and its affiliates, we reiterate our commitment to indicate affiliation with CoNISMa in all publications resulting from activities managed by the Consortium.
