Maria Spano

University of Naples Federico II  ·  Dept. of Economics and Statistics

Maria
Spano

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDB)
Statistics for Social Science

Text Mining Sentiment Analysis Science Mapping Bibliometrics Data Mining Document Clustering
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Maria Spano
60+ Scientific
Publications
23 Journal
Articles
JADT Scientific
Committee
2 PRIN 2022
Projects

About

I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDB) in Statistics for Social Science at the University of Naples Federico II, Department of Economics and Statistics. I hold a Ph.D. in Statistics (2015) from the same university, with a thesis on document clustering validation techniques.

My research activity focuses on quantitative methods for text and data analysis, with a particular emphasis on computational approaches to social science and bibliometrics. I am part of the development team of bibliometrix, an open-source R package for quantitative research in scientometrics and bibliometrics, and a member of the academic spin-off K-Synth.

Since 2024, I have been a permanent member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT). I am currently involved in two PRIN 2022 national research projects focused on the evaluation of Academic Health Science Centres.

Research Interests

  • Text Mining and Statistical Analysis of Textual Data
  • Social Media and Sentiment Analysis
  • Science Mapping and Bibliometrics
  • Data Mining and Document Clustering

Education

  • Ph.D. in Statistics (XXVII Cycle), University of Naples Federico II, 2015 — “Validation techniques for document clustering” (Supervisor: Prof. Simona Balbi)
  • Degree in Statistics (110/110 cum laude), University of Naples Federico II, 2010 — “Information Retrieval techniques for document indexing”