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2004-2013

2007-2016
8%

8%
8%

10%
37%

10%

36%

11%
10%

11%
12%

12%

15%

(a)
United States
United Kingdom

12%

(b)
Germany
Japan

China
Italy

France

figure 3. The share of papers containing the keyword "Earth

observation" published by the seven most productive countries
(a) between 2004 and 2013 and (b) between 2007 and 2016.
◗ the ongoing transition to online publishing, which has

increased the ease and speed of publication
◗ the general trend toward quantitative assessment of re-

search productivity, which has resulted in pressure on
researchers to publish more papers, sometimes regardless of the actual quality of the results [11], [12].
ConClusions
Neither this article nor the previous ones, [3] and [4], claim any
sort of completeness or a capability to finalize observations
on a complex matter like education in the areas addressed by
our work. The main point of this article is to revive the discussion on educational trends. Interested readers are encouraged
to send their feedback to fabio.dellacqua@unipv.it.
ACknowledgment
This work was partly supported by the University of Pavia,
Italy, through a Tirocinio Formativo Curriculare grant.
Author informAtion
fabio dell'Acqua (fabio.dellacqua@unipv.it) received his

five-year degree in electronics engineering and his Ph.D.
degree in remote sensing from the University of Pavia, Italy,
in 1996 and 1999, respectively, where he is currently an associate professor of remote sensing. In February 2014, he
cofounded a university spin-off company, Ticinum Aerospace, to commercially exploit research results in the use of
Earth observation data for risk management. His research
interests focus on radar data processing and radar/optical
data fusion for risk-related applications. In this area, he is/
has been participating in several research projects at both
the national and international levels. He is a life member of
the Technical and Scientific Board of the Lombardy Aerospace Cluster and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
giuseppe siciliano (giuseppe.siciliano01@universitadipavia
.it) received his master's degree in electronic engineering
from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2015. In the same
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year, he was appointed as a Ph.D. student at the Microwave
Laboratory of the same university, where he is expected to
earn his Ph.D. degree in 2019. He is with the Dip. Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione, University of Pavia,
and his research interests include mechanically and electronically steerable antennas and microwave systems, in
the framework of a strong partnership with the European
Space Agency. He is the first author of several conference
and journal papers on phased array antennas and has attended several international conferences on microwave
engineering. He is the vice president of the IEEE Student
Branch of Pavia and a Student Member of the IEEE.
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