Gianmarco Alberti is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminology. He received his PhD from the University of Udine (Italy) in 2012. His research interests focus on Geographic 福利在线免费 Science, spatial analysis, statistical modelling, and statistics applied to social science data.
Dr Alberti has published on internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals (average Impact Factor: 2.72) including Radiocarbon, PLoS ONE, Journal of Quaternary Science, SoftwareX, Cartography and Geographic 福利在线免费 Science, and Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. He is the author of three monographs, including "From Data to Insights: A Beginner's Guide to Cross-Tabulation Analysis" (Routledge, 2024; ISBN 9781032720388).
Dr Alberti is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and serves as reviewer for over 20 international journals, including The R Journal, Archaeometry, Current Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, PLoS ONE, and Cartography and Geographic 福利在线免费 Science.
He is the author of 14 open-source software tools for statistics, multivariate analysis, and cost-surface modelling, achieving 126,000+ combined downloads globally with 90+ citations. These tools support international research across criminology, archaeology, ecology, conservation biology, and social sciences, with documented applications spanning six continents.
His 'movecost' R package (40,000+ downloads, 40+ citations) has enabled wildlife conservation research in Malaysian Borneo, archaeological investigations in Ethiopia, and environmental studies across the Italian Alps. His 'CAinterprTools' R package (30,000+ downloads, 25+ citations) has facilitated sociological research in Canada, criminological studies in Nigeria, and educational research in Turkey. His research on the Maltese landscape has applied GIS modelling to historical cadastral data, pastoral foraging routes, and heritage preservation, contributing to understanding of Malta's layered cultural and agricultural development.
His supervision portfolio spans BA, MA, and PhD candidates across criminology, geography, archaeology, and heritage studies. His teaching spans 6 faculties and 10 departments, delivering quantitative methodology training at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels.
As of October 2025, Dr Alberti's publications feature 640+ 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
