Associate Professor ANDREA CARAGLIU

Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Former Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International - RSAI

Andrea Caragliu is Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he acts as Coordinator of the Ph.D. programme in Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering. His work focuses on agglomeration economies, macroeconometric regional growth, cross-border regions, and smart urban development.
Assoc. Prof. Caragliu was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Regional Science Policy and Practice, a journal of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), in January 2025. Previously, he had acted as Executive Director of the RSAI and joined several Horizon/FP, DG Regio, and ESPON projects as partner/principal investigator.
Member and Auditor (2013-2016) of the Italian Association of Regional Science (AISRe); member of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), American Economic Association (AEA); Urban Economics Association (UEA), American Association of Geographers (AAG), European Economic Association (EEA).
Refereeing activity for research institutions: Austrian Science Fund, Belgian Research Council, Fondecyt National Projects Competition, Czech Science Foundation, Estonian Research Council, European Research Council, Hungarian Research Council (Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal), Israel Science Foundation, Paris Region Fellowship Programme, Polish National Science Centre, Research Development and Innovation Authority Saudi Arabia, Sapienza Università di Roma.

Publications Impact
• 46 articles on WoS-indexed journals
• 30 articles on ANVUR A class journals
• 13,243 citations on Google Scholar
• 5,601 citations on Scopus
• 4,1220citations on Web of Science
• Top 2% of world authors by impact in the category “Urban and regional planning” in the Stanford ranking (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), “August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository, V8, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.8)

Academic Profile by:

Professor Assistant Filipos Ruxho, Sustainable Regional Development Scientific Journal

References

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