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2017: FUP IS DOC!

A very good year for Firenze University Press Open Access Journals

It has been a very successful year for FUP Journals, with several remarkable achievements that enhanced their standing and their capacity to communicate knowledge and ideas to researchers throughout the world.
The recent recognition of the high scientific profile of Aestimum and Aisthesis resulted in their inclusion in Scopus: an extraordinary step forward! This important milestone ensures that articles published in those journals are easily found when searching for land economics and aesthetics literature and enables authors to keep track of how often their articles have been cited by others.

Phytopathologia Mediterranea, in the category ‘Agronomy”, is one of the most relevant Open Access journals in the world: it is ranked as the third highest journals among the Open Access journals in its category. According to the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Thomson Reuters in June 2017, the new Impact Factor of Phyto is 1.255. Compared to last year, the IF has increased by 20,44%. Since 2017 it is a certified member of ReviewerCredits, that keeps track of all the performed reviews, assigns an index and gives tangible rewards.

Also Acta Herpetolgica has increased its Impact Factor by 30,80% and the 5-Year Impact Factor by 7,28%. It is ranked as the 12th highest among the Open Access journals in the category 'Zoology' in the world.

According to Scopus, Techne - in the category ‘Architecture” - is now the most distinguished journal in Italy and it is ranked 5th highest among the Open Access journals in the world for this category.

Aestimum, Aisthesis, Annali di Storia di Firenze, Cromohs, Lea, Phytopathologia, Reti Medievali, Scrineum and Storia delle donne, have been awarded the DOAJ SEAL. The DOAJ only awards the SEAL only to journals that comply with an extraordinary high level of publishing standards and best practice. We are so proud for such acknowledgement!

And last but not least, Substantia, our newborn journal, has exceeded all expectations, getting over 24.000 downloads in less than six months!

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by Alessandro Pierno

Per filo e per segno

Ammannati, Francesco

The wool manufacture, along with the International trade and finance, was one of Florence’s leading sectors in the Late Middle Ages. The sixteenth century has been only touched by the historical-economical studies, perhaps because it was traditionally considered a period of decadence. More recent research has instead highlighted the need to rethink these conclusions, demonstrating how the textile sector represents a good point of observation for deepening the critical points and evaluating the prospects of the economy of the city of the Lily in the 16th century. Alongside the analysis of a case study and the critical re-elaborations of what literature offers on more general topics, the book presents a long-term view of the process of the rise and decline of the Arte della Lana in Florence, reinterpreting it in the light of new archival investigations.

La manifattura della lana, insieme al grande commercio e alla finanza internazionale, fu uno dei settori trainanti della Firenze bassomedievale. Il Cinquecento è stato solo sfiorato dagli studi storico-economici, specialmente riguardo l’organizzazione della produzione o del lavoro, forse perché considerato tradizio-nalmente il secolo della decadenza. Ricerche più recenti hanno invece evidenziato la necessità di ripensare queste conclusioni, dimostrando come il comparto tessile rappresenti un buon punto di osservazione per approfondire le criticità e valutare le prospettive dell’economia della città del Giglio nel Sedicesimo seco-lo. Affiancando all’analisi di un case study le rielaborazioni critiche di quanto la letteratura offre sui temi di ordine più generale, il libro presenta una visione di lungo periodo del processo di ascesa e declino dell’Arte della Lana di Firenze, reinterpretandola alla luce di nuovi scavi archivistici.