Giuseppe Porro

7.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
36 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Giuseppe Porro is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giuseppe Porro has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Statistics and Probability, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Giuseppe Porro's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (12 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (10 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (9 papers). Giuseppe Porro is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (12 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (10 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (9 papers). Giuseppe Porro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Spain. Giuseppe Porro's co-authors include Stefano M. Iacus, Gary King, Matthew Blackwell, Andrea Cerón, Luigi Curini, Gary King, Silvia Salini, Elena Siletti, M. Lazzaroni and Airo Hino and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Statistical Software and New Media & Society.

In The Last Decade

Giuseppe Porro

33 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching

2011 2.4k citations Stefano M. Iacus, Gary King et al. Political Analysis profile →
Cem: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata

2009 1.3k citations Matthew Blackwell, Stefano M. Iacus et al. The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata profile →
Multivariate Matching Methods That Are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding

2011 699 citations Stefano M. Iacus, Gary King et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
Every tweet counts? How sentiment analysis of social media can improve our knowledge of citizens’ political preferences with an application to Italy and France

2013 354 citations Stefano M. Iacus, Giuseppe Porro et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Giuseppe Porro Italy	13	1.7k	1.4k	800	589	558	36	5.5k
Stefano M. Iacus Italy	24	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	823 1.0×	622 1.1×	578 1.0×	105	7.1k
Chunrong Ai United States	17	2.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.8k 2.3×	1.1k 1.8×	708 1.3×	45	7.0k
Hristos Doucouliagos Australia	45	3.8k 2.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	922 1.6×	509 0.9×	146	8.5k
T. D. Stanley United States	37	3.3k 2.0×	1.0k 0.8×	764 1.0×	576 1.0×	503 0.9×	113	7.5k
Leslie E. Papke United States	19	2.3k 1.4×	696 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	760 1.3×	354 0.6×	31	4.8k
Barbara Sianesi United Kingdom	14	1.8k 1.1×	656 0.5×	376 0.5×	354 0.6×	545 1.0×	26	3.8k
David A. Jaeger United States	16	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	540 0.7×	242 0.4×	682 1.2×	43	4.9k
Sascha O. Becker United Kingdom	35	3.5k 2.1×	2.3k 1.7×	644 0.8×	635 1.1×	603 1.1×	117	7.4k
Steven Stillman New Zealand	29	2.6k 1.5×	1.8k 1.3×	909 1.1×	533 0.9×	756 1.4×	140	5.5k
Andrea Ichino Italy	33	2.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.2×	613 0.8×	241 0.4×	976 1.7×	90	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Giuseppe Porro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giuseppe Porro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giuseppe Porro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giuseppe Porro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giuseppe Porro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Giuseppe Porro. Giuseppe Porro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Galmarini, Umberto, et al.. (2024). Victim’s identification and social categorization: first- and second-order effects on altruistic behavior. International Review of Economics. 71(4). 959–988.

Hino, Airo, et al.. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Twitter Data. Journal of Data Science. 761–780. 3 indexed citations

Iacus, Stefano M., Giuseppe Porro, Silvia Salini, & Elena Siletti. (2020). An Italian Composite Subjective Well-Being Index: The Voice of Twitter Users from 2012 to 2017. Social Indicators Research. 161(2-3). 471–489. 15 indexed citations

Iacus, Stefano M., Giuseppe Porro, Silvia Salini, & Elena Siletti. (2019). Social Networks Data and Subjective Well-Being. An Innovative Measurement for Italian Provinces. IrInSubria (University of Insubria). 18. 667–678. 5 indexed citations

Iacus, Stefano M., Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2018). A Theory of Statistical Inference for Matching Methods in Causal Research. Political Analysis. 27(1). 46–68. 67 indexed citations

Porro, Giuseppe, et al.. (2017). Do local subsidies to firms create jobs? Counterfactual evaluation of an Italian regional experience. Papers of the Regional Science Association. 97(4). 1039–1057. 9 indexed citations

Iacus, Stefano M., Giuseppe Porro, Silvia Salini, & Elena Siletti. (2017). How to Exploit Big Data from Social Networks: a Subjective Well-being Indicator via Twitter. Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano). 114. 537–542. 8 indexed citations

Cappellin, Riccardo, et al.. (2016). Banche popolari, credito cooperativo, economia reale e costituzione. IrInSubria (University of Insubria). 1–111.

Iacus, Stefano M., Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2011). Causal Inference without Balance Checking: Coarsened Exact Matching. Political Analysis. 20(1). 1–24. 2449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Iacus, Stefano M., Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2011). Multivariate Matching Methods That Are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 106(493). 345–361. 699 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blackwell, Matthew, Stefano M. Iacus, Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2009). Cem: Coarsened Exact Matching in Stata. The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata. 9(4). 524–546. 1264 indexed citations breakdown →

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Iacus, Stefano M. & Giuseppe Porro. (2009). Teachers’ evaluations and students’ achievement: a ‘deviation from the reference’ analysis. Education Economics. 19(2). 139–159. 3 indexed citations

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Iacus, Stefano M., Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2009). cem: Software for Coarsened Exact Matching. Journal of Statistical Software. 30(9). 327 indexed citations

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Iacus, Stefano M., Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2008). Matching for Causal Inference Without Balance Checking. SSRN Electronic Journal. 116 indexed citations

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Iacus, Stefano M., Gary King, & Giuseppe Porro. (2008). Coarsened exact matching. 39–43. 2 indexed citations

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Porro, Giuseppe & Stefano M. Iacus. (2008). Random Recursive Partitioning: a matching method for the estimation of the average treatment effect. Journal of Applied Econometrics. 24(1). 163–185. 20 indexed citations

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Iacus, Stefano M., et al.. (2003). Formazione e percorsi lavorativi dei laureati dell'Universita' degli Studi di Milano. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Prever, Elena Maria Brach Del, Marcello Baricco, Luigi Costa, et al.. (2003). Biomaterials for joint prostheses.. 1–14. 1 indexed citations

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Lazzaroni, M. & Giuseppe Porro. (2001). Preparation, Premedication, and Surveillance. Endoscopy. 33(2). 103–108. 18 indexed citations

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Porro, Giuseppe. (1997). Tasks and Types: An Application of Mechanism Design to Self‐Selection in Labour Markets. Labour. 11(2). 391–406. 1 indexed citations

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