Publications

Journal Publications

1. Li M., Livan G., Righi S. (2025), Quantifying the dynamics of peak innovation in scientific careers, Scientific Reports , 15, 10812.

2. Li M., Livan G., Righi S. (2024), Breaking down the relationship between disruption scores and citation counts, PLoS ONE, 19 (12): e0313268 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0313268)

3. Righi R, Pedrazzoli A, Righi S, Venturelli V (2024) The clientele effects in equity crowdfunding: a complex network analysis, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Volume 42, June 2024, 100907 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100907)

4. Giardini F, Pancotto F (2024) Righi S, Understanding post disaster prosociality: Comparing post earthquake cooperation and fairness in two Italian regions,  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 106, May 2024, 104165 (DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104165) [Old Preprint]

5. Russo M,  Alboni F, Sanginés JC, De Domenico M, Mangioni G (2023) Righi S, Simonazzi A, Regionalisation and cross-region integration. Twin dynamics in the automotive international trade networks, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 67, December 2023, Pages 98-114 (DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2023.07.006).

6. Pancotto F, Righi S, Takacs K. (2023) Voluntary play increases cooperation in the presence of punishment: A lab in the field experiment, Theory and Decision (DOI: 10.1007/s11238-023-09929-9). [Old WP version]

7. Piras S, Righi S, Giordano C, Banchelli F, Setti M (2023) Food waste between environmental education, peers, and family influence. Insights from primary school students in Northern Italy,  Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 383, 10 January 2023, 135461 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135461)

8. Podder S, Righi S, (2023) Complexity of behavioural strategies and cooperation in the Optional Public Goods Game, Dynamic Games and Applications  (DOI: 10.1007/s13235-022-00485-5). 

9. Righi S, Takacs K (2022), Gossip: Perspective Taking to Establish Cooperation, Dynamic Games and Applications, 12: 1086–1100 (DOI: 10.1007/s13235-022-00440-4)

10. Piras S, Righi S,  Setti M, Koseoglu N, Grainger MJ, Stewart GB and Vittuari M (2022), From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Volume 176, January 2022, 105952 (DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105952). [Last WP version]

11. Podder S, Pancotto F, Righi S (2021),  Reputation and punishment stabilize cooperation in the Optional Public Good,  Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 376, Issue 1838 (DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0293) [Last WP Version]

12. Podder S, Righi S, Takacs K (2021), Local Reputation, Local Selection, and the Leading Eight Norms, Scientific Reports, 11, 16560 (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95130-3)

13. Pancotto F, Righi S (2021), Reflectivity relates differently to pro sociality in naive and strategic subjects, Scientific Reports, 11: 12745 (DOI:  10.1038/s41598-021-91960-3). Media coverage: [UNIMORE Magazine] [ModenaToday] [Bologna2000][Vivo Modena] [Gazzetta di Modena], [Il resto del Carlino]

14. Piras S, Pancotto F, Righi S, Vittuari M, Setti M (2021), Community Social Capital and Status: The Social Dilemma of Food Waste,  Ecological Economics, Volume 183, May 2021, 106954 (DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106954) [Old WP version]

15. Russo M, Pavone P, Pagliacci F, Righi S, Giorgi A, (2021) Multidimensional clustering of EU regions. A contribution to orient public policies in reducing regional disparities, Social Indicators Research, Social Indicators Research, 156(2), 739-759 (DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02324-9),  [Old WP Version]

16. Carroni E, Pin P, Righi S, (2020)  Bring a friend! Privately or Publicly?, Management Science, Volume 66, No. 5, Pages 1783-2290 (DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2018.3282)  [Last WP Version] [Old WP Version ] [First WP version]

17. Carroni E, Ferrari L, Righi S (2019) The price of discovering your needs online, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Volume 164, August 2019, Pages 317-330 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2019.06.008) [Old WP Version]

18. Biondi Y, Righi S (2019), Inequality, Mobility and the Financial Accumulation Process: A Computational Economic Analysis, Journal of Economic Interactions and Coordination, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp 93-119 (DOI: 10.1007/s11403-019-00236-7)  [Last WP Version][Old WP Version]

19. Righi S, Takacs K (2018), Social Closure and the Evolution of Cooperation via Indirect Reciprocity, Scientific Reports, 8:11149 (DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-29290-0)

20. Grainger MJ, Aramyan L, Piras S., Quested T., Righi S., Setti M., Vittuari M., and Stewart GB (2018), Model selection and averaging in the assessment of the drivers of household food waste to reduce the probability of false positives, PLoS ONE, 13(2):e0192075 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192075).

21. Grainger MJ, Aramyan L, Logatcheva K., Piras S., Righi S., Setti M., Vittuari M. and Stewart GB (2018), The use of systems models to identify food waste drivers, Global Food Security, Volume 16, March 2018, pp 1-8 (DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2017.12.005)

22. Biondi Y, Righi S (2017), Much ado about making money: The impact of disclosure, News and Rumors over the Formation of Security Market Prices over Time, Journal of Economic Interactions and Coordination, August 2017 (DOI: 10.1007/s11403-017-0201-8) [View Only File] [Old WP Version] [Last WP Version]

23. Righi S, Takacs K (2017), The Miracle of Peer Review and Development in Science: An Agent Based Model, Scientometrics, October 2017, Volume 113, Issue 1, pp 587–607 (DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2244-y)

24. Biondi Y, Righi S (2016), What does the financial market pricing do? A simulation analysis with a view to systemic volatility, exuberance and vagary, Journal of Economic Interactions and Coordination, Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 175–203 (DOI: 10.1007/s11403-015-0159-3) [WP version]

25. Righi S, Takacs K (2014), Emotional strategies as catalysts for cooperation in signed networks, Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 1450011 (DOI: 10.1142/S0219525914500118)

26. Aldashev G, Carletti T, Righi S (2011), Follies subdued: Informational Efficiency under Adaptive Expectations and Confirmatory Bias, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 80, Issue 1, pp. 110-121 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2011.03.001) [WP Version]

27. Carletti T, Fanelli D, Righi S (2011), Emerging structures in social networks guided by opinions exchanges, Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 13-30 (DOI: 10.1142/S021952591100286X)

28. Carletti T, Righi S (2010), Weighted Fractal Networks, Physica A, Vol. 389, pp. 2134-2142 (DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.01.019)

In Publication

1. Opposites do not attract. Friendship is not a reward for cooperation - Repulsion between prosocial and selfish students in social networks (with Samu F, ELKH Centre for Economic and Regional Studies;  Piras S, Hutton Institute;  Setti M, University of Bologna, Takacs K, Hungarian Academy of Science/Linkoping University)  [Submitted - Plos One]

2. Escaping Corruption: How Transparency and Exit Affect Behavior in a Bribery Game  (with Francesca Pancotto, UNIMORE, Francesca Federico, Arizona State University; Christoph Hauert, University of British Columbia) [Ready for Submission]

Work in progress

• Journal competition and the sustainability of peer review (with Karoly Takacs, Linkoping University/Hungarian Academy of Science; Carmen Ibanescu, University College London & Goldman Sachs)

• Empathy and Pro-sociality and strategic behaviour: experimental evidence  (with Francesca Pancotto, UNIMORE; Francesca Federico, Arizona State University)

• Systemic Risk and the evolution of behavior in financial networks (with Fabio Caccioli, University College London and Lorenzo Tonon, Ca'Foscari University of Venice)

• Interventions in Work Canteens to reduce food waste: an agent-based model (with Simone Piras, Hutton Institute)

• Analysis of the Intermediation Networks in Mission 4 Component 2 of the PNRR: A Systemic Approach (with Margherita Russo and Federica Rossi, UNIMORE; Fabrizio Alboni, UNIBO; Fenna Ester Bisi, University of Groningen)

• Technological sovereignty in action: co-patenting in the low-carbon transport sector (with Margherita Russo, Unimore; Fabrizio Alboni UNIBO)

Working Papers

1. Russo M, Alboni F, Sanginés JC, De Domenico M, Mangioni G, Righi S, Simonazzi A (2022), The Changing Shape of the World Automobile Industry: A Multilayer Network Analysis of International Trade in Components and Parts, Working Paper 173, Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Papers. 

2. Piras S, Righi S, Setti M, Aramyan L, Grainger MJ, Logatcheva K, Stewart GB and Vittuari M, Business innovation to address food waste. What can policymakers learn from behavioural economics? 

3. Righi S, Campaign Spending and Rents in a Probabilistic Voting Model, 2015/73, Department of Economics Marco Biagi Working Paper Series, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

4. Setti M, Banchelli F, Piras S, Righi S,  Bounded Altruism, food waste behavior and policy: Insights from Primary school children in Italy.

Editorials

1. Caccioli F, Di Matteo T,  Iori G, Jafarey S, Livan G, Righi S, Introduction to the special issue on the 24th annual Workshop on Economic science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, London, 2019 (WEHIA 2019), Journal of Economic Interactions and Coordination (Editorial) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-022-00354-9)

Conference Proceedings

1. Platt M, Pierangeli F, Livan G, Righi S (2020), Facilitating the Decentralised Exchange of Cryptocurrencies in an Order-Driven Market, Proceedings of 2nd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (Brains 2020) [Preprint]

2. Righi S, Takacs K (2017), Blind Vs. embedded indirect reciprocity and the evolution of cooperation, Proceedings of European Conference on Modelling and Simulations 2017 (ISBN: 978-0-9932440-4-9)

3. Pavone P, Righi S, Righi R, Russo M (2016), Text mining and network analysis to support improvements in legislative action. The case of the earthquake in Emilia-Romagna, Proceedings of Journées internationales d'Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles,

4. Righi S, Takacs K (2014), Triadic Balance and Closure as Drivers of the Evolution of Cooperation, Advances in Computational Social Science and Social Simulation: Proceedings of the Social Simulations Conference (SSC) 2014,

5. Righi S, Takacs K (2014), Degree Variance and Emotional Strategies Catalyze Cooperation in Dynamic Signed Networks, Proceedings of European Conference on Modelling and Simulations 2014.

6. Righi S, Takacs K (2013), Signed Networks, Triadic Interactions and the Evolution of Cooperation, Proceedings of Wivace 2013 Italian Workshop of Artificial Life and Evolutive Computing

7. Righi S, Carletti T (2012), Face-to-face discussions: networking or opinions exchange?, Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex systems (ECCS) 2012, Bruxelles

8. Righi S, Carletti T, Aldashev G (2012), Behavioral Biases and Informational Inefficiency in an Agent-Based Financial Market, Proceedings of ESSA Conference (European Social Simulations Association), Salzburg. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award (announcement on the University of Namur website)

9. Righi S, Carletti T (2009), How Opinion Dynamics Shapes Social Networks Topology, Proceedings of AI*IA Conference (Italian Association for artificial Intelligence) (ISBN: 978-88-903581-1-1)

10. Righi S, Carletti T (2009), The influence of social network topology in a opinion dynamics model, Proceeding of the European Conference on Complex systems 2009 (ISBN: 0-9554123-1-5)

11. Carletti T, Righi S (2008), Shaping Opinions in a Social Network, Proceedings of Wivace 2008 Italian Workshop of Artificial Life and Evolutive Computing

Chapters in Books

1. Righi S, Piras S, Setti M, Grainger MJ, Stewart GB and Vittuari M (2020), Computational methods and Models for Food Waste Reduction, in Handbook of Food Waste Reduction and Valorization, Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom. [Preprint]

2. Russo M, Caloffi A, Righi R, Righi S, Rossi F (2019), Multilayer network analysis of innovation intermediaries' activities, in  Challenges in social network research: methods and applications (Lecture Notes in Social Networks book series),  pp. 193-208, Springer. (DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-31463-7_12 - ISBN:9783030314620)

3. Righi S, Takacs K (2017), Parallel versus Sequential Update and the Evolution of Cooperation with the Assistance of Emotional Strategies, Understanding Interactions in Complex Systems: Toward a Science of Interaction, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (ISBN:978-1-4438-9496-8) [Book Website]

4. Dall E, Righi S (2008), Evaluating Project Communications with social network Analysis, in Hochgerner & Cornejova, Communication in International R&D Projects (2008), Barrister & Principal, Brno (CZ) (ISBN: 978-80-87029-28-2)

5. Righi S (2007), Complexity and Innovation, in Marco Villani et al., (2007) Educating Managers in Complexity, Aracne Editrice, Roma

Projects Reports

1. Masotti M.; Piras S.; Righi S.; Setti M.; Aramyan L.; Logatcheva K.; Vittuari M., Behavioural economics: assessing food waste innovations diffusion through ABM models - Insights from Italy and the Netherlands. ISBN: 978-94-6343-997-8 DOI: 10.18174/478168

2. Piras S, Come cavolo mangi? Progetto pilota esperienziale di educazione alimentare e agroambientale dedicato alle conoscenze legate al cibo, necessarie per apprezzarlo e non sprecarlo - Indagine “Lo spreco alimentare nei comportamenti dei ragazzi a Scuola e a casa” -  Rapporto divulgativo dei risultati (written by  S. Piras and based on a preliminary study of data collected by  S. Piras, S. Righi and M. Setti)

3. Grainger, M, Piras S, Righi S, Setti M, Stewart G, Vittuari M (2018) Behavioural economics: Linking Bayesian and agent-based models to assess consumer food waste. H2020-Refresh Project Deliverable, ISBN: 978-94-6343-994-7

4. Grainger M, Stewart G, Piras S, Righi S, Setti M, Vittuari M, (2018) Model integration. Integrated socio-economic model on food waste, H2020-Refresh Project Deliverable, ISBN: 978-94-6343-335-8

5. Piras S, Righi S, Setti M, Vittuari M (2016), Socio-economic implications of food waste: Business behavioural typologies and interrelationships, H2020-Refresh Project Deliverable - ISBN 978-94-6257-990-3

6. Grainger M, Stewart G, Piras S, Righi S, Setti M, Vittuari M (2016), Model development and data protocol, H2020-Refresh Project Deliverable - ISBN 978-94-6343-034-0 DOI: 10.18174/399920

7. Russo M, Caloffi A, Pagliacci F, Rossi F, Righi R, Righi S. (2016), Report on Methodology, CLUES - CLUstering and network analysis of techno-Economic Segments Studies (Confidential Report for EC JRC Digital Economy Unit B6, EU-Predict Project)

8. Russo M, Caloffi A, Pagliacci F, Pavone P, Rossi F, Righi R, Righi S. (2017), Results of Application of the Methodology, CLUES - CLUstering and network analysis of techno-Economic Segments Studies (Confidential Report for EC JRC Digital Economy Unit B6, EU-Predict Project)

9. Russo M, Caloffi A, Pagliacci F, Pavone P, Rossi F, Righi R, Righi, S. (2017), Final Report and Files, CLUES - CLUstering and network analysis of techno-Economic Segments Studies (Confidential Report for EC JRC Digital Economy Unit B6, EU-Predict Project)

Book Reviews

1. Righi S (2019), Review of the Book "Multiplex Networks" by Emanuele Cozzo et al, in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Vol 22 (3), June 2019

2. Righi S (2013), Review of the Book "Decoding Complexity: Uncovering Patterns in Economic Networks" by James Grattfelder, in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Vol 16 (4), November 2013

Datasets:

1. Righi R, Russo M, Caloffi A, Righi S; Rossi F, Innovation Poles in Tuscany 2011-2014 (2019) DOI: 10.25431/11380_1182469.