  The purpose of this document is to present a few statistics about the role of
Italian astronomy, focusing on the production by INAF (Istituto Nazionale di
Astrofisica). Data are presented but very few comments are given. We did not
use lists of members of different scientific INAF macro-areas because a few
trials showed that they are largely incomplete and result in an underestimate
of the Italian astronomical production by more than a factor of two. The
structure of this document is as follows: first I give some detail about the
methods used; I then present data about the role of Italy in astronomical
research worldwide; finally, I give some statistics about the h-factor of
astronomers that are members of scientific INAF macro-areas (both INAF staff
and associate).
