Gianmarco Alberti is Senior Lecturer in Spatial Forensics at the Department of Criminology. He received his PhD from the University of Udine (Italy) in 2012. His research interests focus on Geographic Information Science (GIS), spatial analysis, 3D modelling, statistical modelling, and statistics applied to social science data, with a focus on dimensionality-reduction techniques (Correspondence Analysis in particular).
Dr Alberti has published studies in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals (average Impact Factor: 2.72) such as Radiocarbon, PloSOne, Journal of Quaternary Science, SoftwareX, Cartography and Geographic Information Science. He is the author of one monograph (published in 2008 in the British Archaeological Reports series) and of contributions to conference proceedings.
In 2024, Dr Alberti published "From Data to Insights: A Beginner's Guide to Cross-Tabulation Analysis" with Routledge (ISBN 9781032720388). The book offers a clear and accessible guide to cross-tabulation analysis, demystifying intricate concepts and making them approachable for readers with varying levels of mathematical expertise.
Dr Alberti acts as a reviewer for many academic journals, including The R Journal, Archaeometry, Current Anthropology, Radiocarbon, Journal of Archaeological Science, PloSOne, and Cartography and Geographic Information Science, among many others.
He is also the author of open-access software for statistics and spatial statistics, multivariate analysis, fuzzy viewshed calculation, and cost-surface analysis. These tools have been developed under ESRI's ArcGIS and the R statistical programming language. See see for example: https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/2021/05/open-source-software-movement https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/2021/05/modeling-walking-time-distance https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/2021/11/exploring-complex-data-free-software-for-the-analysis-of-tabular-data https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/news/2023/05/from-tables-tales-novel-approach-data-analysis
As of June 2024, Dr Alberti's publications feature 560 citations, with an h-index of 16 (source: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tFrJKQ0AAAAJ&hl=en).
See also: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gianmarco_Alberti4 https://malta.academia.edu/GianmarcoAlberti
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Latest publications: Alberti, G. (2024). From Data to Insights: A Beginner's Guide to Cross-Tabulation Analysis. Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 9781032720388.
Alberti, G., Grima, R., Vella, N. C., Xerri, K., & Zammit, D. E. (2024). A Historical Landscape under Threat: Contestation and Preservation of Malta’s Pastoral Droveways. In Heritage (Vol. 7, Issue 6, pp. 3095–3119). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7060146
