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Social Capital Gateway è un'iniziativa personale e senza scopo di lucro. Non è finanziato da istituzioni di ricerca, né accademiche né private. I suoi principali obiettivi sono:

• Fornire risorse utili a ricercatori, docenti, studenti, e attivisti della società civile interessati allo studio del capitale sociale e di temi collegati, come la povertà e lo sviliuppo.
• Promuovere lo scambio di idee su questi argomenti.

Questo sito è nato come prodotto incidentale della mia attività di ricerca, e ovviamente non può essere esaustivo. Pertanto invito i visitatori a segnalarmi qualsiasi informazione potenzialmente utile e a inviarmi i propri lavori che desiderano vedere pubblicati su queste pagine.
Fabio Sabatini

Site's goals and description

Social Capital Gateway (SCG) is a web site publishing materials for the study of social capital and related topics in a multidisciplinary perspective. It is mainly targeted to: 1. scholars who want to keep themselves posted on the frontier of the scientific debate in the field. 2. Researchers needing references and hints for their work. 3. Graduate and undergraduate students who are dealing with social capital to the purposes of writing their dissertation.

SCG is a personal, non profit, initiative. It is not funded neither by academic nor by private for profit institutions.

The web site provides constantly updated information on calls for papers, upcoming conferences, new publications and research projects, academic job vacancies, and postgraduate programs. A special section is devoted to new PhDs interested in sharing their dissertation on social capital and related topics. The site’s reading list, collecting selected papers from different disciplines partitioned into more than 30 thematic sections, is a particularly valuable tool for researchers and students approaching the topic for the first time.

Within the maintenance of the web site, two weekly newsletters are delivered: 1. An update on upcoming conferences, calls for papers and other news and events. 1. A report, called NEP-Soc (New Economics Papers on Social Norms & Social Capital), containing information (i.e., title, authors, abstract and link to the full text) on new papers in economics. The report is sponsored by the State University of New York within the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) project.

Thanks to the interaction stimulated through the newsletters, the Social Capital Gateway has favoured the aggregation of a constantly growing community of researchers, teachers, and practitioners, who cooperate with the initiative by sharing their papers and information.

From May 2010, the opportunities of networking and interaction have been enhanced through the establishment of a Facebook page, where readers are able to post links and articles on the wall, as well as start discussions and call for collaborations on their research topics.

This web site was born as a by-product of my personal research activity, and of course it cannot be exhaustive. Thus I invite all visitors to keep me informed on their work and to submit any kind of research material for publication on this site. Scholars involved in the organisation of conferences and other initiatives related to social capital are invited to let me know about these activities. I hope to contribute in giving them further publicity through this site.
Fabio Sabatini

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Numbers

Social Capital Gateway was created in 2003. Since then, it received more than 7 millions visitors, as certified by three online statistics private services (“WebTools” from 2003 to 2006, “Aruba Statistics” from 2006 to 2008 and “Google Analytics” from 2008 to date). Currently, the daily number of visitors ranges from 2,000 to 3,000, mostly from Europe, United States, Australia, China, and India.

The web site is linked as a useful resource for social sciences by hundreds of research institutions, like international organizations (e.g. the World Bank), academic departments at the most prestigious universities (e.g. Harvard, Chicago, and LSE), scholarly associations (e.g. the American Economic Association), NGOs, and individual researchers’ blogs and web sites.
Still, most of the traffic comes from search engines, specially Google.
Thanks to such a huge number of links from highly-ranked web sites, Social Capital Gateway has in fact a very high “googlerank”.

The weekly newsletter has about 5,000 subscribers, mostly researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students from all over the world.
The NEP-Soc report has about 2,400 subscribers, mostly scholars.
Subscribers often contribute to Social Capital Gateway by sharing their research work and other information like calls for papers, conference announcements and the forth.

Such a precious source of interaction and debate has been recently enriched by the establishment, at the beginning of May 2010, of a Facebook page. After two weeks of activity, the page has now about 580 fans.

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Statistiche e Links

Al sito accedono in media circa 70.000 visitatori ogni mese, registrati dal servizio di statistiche WebTool.it.

Social Capital Gateway è segnalato come risorsa utile per la ricerca dalla Banca Mondiale e da Università di tutto il mondo, ed è riconosciuto come strumento esemplare per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento dell'economia dal Journal of Economic Education.

Di seguito si trova una selezione delle istituzioni di ricerca che hanno stabilito sul proprio sito un link permanente a Social Capital Gateway.

Organizzazioni internazionali, Biblioteche universitarie, Dipartimenti e Centri di ricerca accademici, Associazioni accademiche, Portali e collezioni di risorse accademiche, Istituti pubblici di ricerca e agenzie governative, Organizzazioni non governative, Imprese.

Ringraziamenti

Ringrazio per i commenti e le segnalazioni utili a migliorare questo sito:

Isidro F. Aguillo, Emmanuel Asomba, Elisabetta Basile, Martina Battisti, Katrina Beard, Roland J.M. Bénabou, Albert Benschop, Christian Bjørnskov, Steve Bloomfield, Elena Boille, Michael Bouwens, Samuel Bowles, Iva Bozovic, Herrington J. Bryce, Michael Briguglio, Luigino Bruni, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Vicky Cattell, Simona Cavallini, Claudio Cecchi, Sergio Cesaratto, Xiangmin Chen, Asimina Christoforou, Sabatina Ciogli, Hilde Coffé, Karen Cook, Fabio Corbisiero, David Crowley, Luigi Curini, Ken Daniszewski, Paul Dekker, Roberta De Santis, Mary De Silva, Joachim De Weerdt, Giacomo Degli Antoni, Paola Di Nicola, Mario Diani, Asif Dowla, Rosalind Edwards, Sara Ferlander, Paolo Ferrario, John Field, François Fontaine, Luca Formaggia, Jonathan Fox, Maurizio Franzini, Jennifer Freeman, Massimo Giannini, Claudio Gnesutta, Stefano Grando, Arent Greve, Daniele Lamotta Genovese, Johann Graf Lambsdorf, Tom Healy, Dirk Hoerder, Camilla Holmemo, Harvey, S. James, Nelson Lara, Romina Laumann, Andrew Leigh, Blaž Lenarcic, Rosemary Leonard, Robert Leonardi, Natalia Letki, Kevin M. Leyden, Ming-Feng Lin, Nan Lin, Yuwei Lin, Fabio Lucchi, Michael Lyons, Simona Milio, Joseph D. Lewandowski, Gary D. Lynne, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Enrico Marchetti, Cecilia Maria Marchisio, Edward Miguel, Dimitrina Mihaylova, Flavio Milandri, Carlos Milani, Renato Mion, Anosua Mitra, John F. Mohan, Kirsteen Monteith, Antonio Mutti, Dean S. Karlan, Robert Kates, Serhiy Kostyuk, Plamen V. Nikolov, Ernesto Noronha, Veronica Nyhan-Jones, Paolo Palazzi, Fouli Papageorgiou, Pablo Paras, Satu Pekkarinen, Vittorio Pelligra, Sergio Peña-Neira, Nicolai N. Petro, Mario Pianta, Ugo Pica Ciamarra, Bala Pillai, Sanjeev Prakash, Jules N. Pretty, Selma Prodanovic, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy Rahn, Martina Recchiuti, Tommaso Reggiani, Bill Reimer, Bill Richards, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bo Rothstein, Bryan Routledge, Ariel Rubinstein, Isabella Samà, Andrea Salvini, Thomas Sander, Shankar Sankaran, Francesco Schiavone, Maurice Schiff, Gilles Seguin, Tony Smith, Lee Snook, Kim Sosin, Bettina Stark, Dietlind Stolle, Stefano Supino, Eduardo Terrén, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Simon Szreter, Jonathan Temple, Frank Thomas, Luigi Tronca, Robin Upton, Eric Uslaner, Thierry van Bastelaer, Wim van Oorschot, Martin Van Der Gaag, Paolo Villarecci, Daniela Visentin, Michele Viviani, Tommaso Vitale, Sarah Wakefield, Rosann Wise.

Ringrazio per l'incoraggiamento a sviluppare e mantere questo sito:

Aris Accornero, Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan, Ronald V. Amorado, Angelo Antoci, Mahyar Arefi, Emmanuel Asomba, Bob Babajanian, Jo Balatti, Filippo Barbera, Andrzej S. Bartelski, Elisabetta Basile, Cherylinn Bassani, Martina Battisti, Katrina Beard, Aklima Begum, Nicolò Bellanca, Roland J.M. Bénabou, Samuel Bentolila, Erik Bergrud, Gianfranco Bettin, Christian Bjørnskov, Bobray Bordelon, Ron Boschma, Michael Bouwens, Ferruccio Bresolin, Herrington J. Bryce, Luigino Bruni, Edgardo Bucciarelli, Almudena Buciega, Kaethe Burt O ’Dea, Massimo Michele Bufi, Colin Campbell, Alessandra Cantori, Andrew Cartwright, Vicky Cattell, Luigi Ceccarini, Claudio Cecchi, Xiangming Chen, Asimina Christoforou, Miu Chung Yan, Marta Cieslak, Daniela Cimillo, Bruce P. Clayman, Karen Cook, Fabio Corbisiero, Patty Costantini, Dejalma Cremonese, Giuseppe Croce, Steve Cropper, Luigi Curini, Nazmi Çyçek, Debra Davidson, Domenico De Masi, Roberta De Santis, Giacomo Degli Antoni, Paul Dekker, Mary DeSilva, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Paola Di Nicola, Brian Dollery, Freda Donoghue, Uwe Dulleck, Khalil Abd Elhamed, Becky Elmhirst, Peter Ester, Daniela Federici, Knud gentschen Felde, Sara Ferlander, John Field, Marco Florean, François Fontaine, Jonathan Fox, Maurizio Franzini, Jennifer Freeman, Jeff Frieden, Francis Fukuyama, Loretta Gallo, Mariam Ginman, Claudio Gnesutta, Sara Gorgoni, Ileana Grandelis, Stefano Grando, Carlos F. Gonzalez, Quentin Grafton, Chris Grayson, Arent Greve, Benedetto Gui, Henrik Jordahl, Pertti Jokivuori, June Hazzlewood, Tom Healy, Dirk Hoerder, Andrea Ichino, Katsushi Imai, Ellen Isenstein, Aasha Kapur Mehta, Dean S. Karlan, Robert Kates, Yuri Kazepov, Martin Kohli, Jane Kolodinsky, James D. Konow, Douglas Koritz, Serhiy Kostyuk, Krishna Kumar, Marija Ilic, Nelson Lara, Romina Laumann, Andrew Leigh, Blaž Lenarcic, Rosemary Leonard, Robert Leonardi, Natalia Letki, Kevin M. Leyden, Joseph D. Lewandowski, Patrizia Lima, Ezra Limiri Mbogori, Ming-Feng Lin, Nan Lin, Yuwei Lin, Liviu Livanu, Emilio Luque, Erzo Luttmer, Gary D. Lynne, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Roderick A. MacLeod, Enrico Marchetti, Adriana B. Marina, João Martins, Valentina Martino, Francesca Marzo, John Matsusaka, Rosa McManamey, Simon Maxwell, Dawit Mekonnen, Alessandro Messina, Matteo Migheli, Stefano Migliorisi, Edward Miguel, Flavio Milandri, Carlos Milani, Enrico Millotti, Renato Mion, Luca Mocarelli, John F. Mohan, Giulio Moini, Kirsteen Monteith, Kevin Morgan, Consuelo Morillo, Antonio Mutti, Plamen V. Nikolov, Ernesto Noronha, D. Mario Nuti, Olanipekun Oluwasola, Annamaria Orban, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Mike Osborne, Paolo Palazzi, Giovanni Palmieri, Pablo Paras, Edward Pajak, Vittorio Pelligra, Sergio Peña-Neira, Nicolai N. Petro, Satu Pekkarinen, Mario Pianta, Ugo Pica Ciamarra, Aneta Piekut, Anders Poulsen, Asutosh Pradhan, Sanjeev Prakash, Jules N. Pretty, Selma Prodanovic, Carlotta Pugi, Louis Putterman, Robert D. Putnam, Wendy Rahn, Michele Raitano, Raj Raval, Andrea Ravecca, Tommaso Reggiani, Bill Reimer, Bill Richards, Giuseppe Ricotta, Rafael Rob, Mary A. Robertson, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bo Rothstein, Bryan Routledge, Pier Luigi Sacco, Andrea Salvini, Fabrizio San Pietro, Thomas Sander, Shankar Sankaran, Anna Maria Santo, Steven Sampson, Francesco Schiavone, Carol Schuetz, Gilles Seguin, Anirban Sengupta, Victor Sergeev, Gohar Shahnazaryan, Anna Maria Simonazzi, Tony Smith, Bettina Stark, Bodo Steiner, Stefano Supino, Eduardo Terrén, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Gunnar Lind H. Svendsen, Simon Szreter, Gregorius Teguh, Jon Temple, Luigi Tronca, Eric Uslaner, Thierry van Bastelaer, Martin van der Gaag, Rick van der Ploeg, Wim van Oorschot, Jan van Deth, Jiri Vecernik, Rob Venter, Paolo Villarecci, Michele Viviani, Daniela Visentin, Franco Volpi, Sarah Wakefield, Drew Walker, Emily White, Rosann Wise, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Anne Birgitta Yeung, Luca Zarri, Isleide Zissimos, Jethro Zuwarimwe.

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