Aracne

Not to be confused with Arachne.

Aracne

Status	failed
Founded	1993
Founder	Gioacchino Onorati
Defunct	2018
Country of origin	Italy
Headquarters location	Rome
Fiction genres	academic, scientific
Official website	www.aracne-editrice.it

Aracne was an Italian publishing company, founded in 1993 by Gioacchino Onorati and specialized in academic and scientific literature. It was declared failed on 6 April 2018. ^[1]

It is the only Italian publishing company that does not require exclusive rights for its publications. ^[2] Aracne publishes both paper books and ebooks, most of them in Italian, although a considerable number of works is published in English. It claimed to use the peer review as an evaluation system, ^[3] it has often been found to use vanity press systems, ^[4] and to publish on ordination. ^[5]

Aracne was a member of the programme for the Evaluation of the Quality of Research of the ANVUR, institution of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. ^[6]

Reinhold Baer Prize

The Reinhold Baer Prize ^[7] is a mathematics award, annually granted jointly by the no-profit association AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications and Aracne for outstanding PhD theses or research article in group theory and its applications. The award is named after the German algebraist Reinhold Baer.

The laureate is presented with a pecuniary prize of EUR1,000.

The first premiere took place during the international conference Advances in Group Theory and Applications 2017, held in Lecce (Italy) from September 5 to 8, 2017. ^[8]

Laureates

Year	Laureate(s)		Image	Citizenship(s)	Institution(s) [a]	Title of awarded thesis or article
2017 [8]	Urban Jezernik	Winner		Slovenia	University of Ljubljana	Universal Commutator Relations [9]
	Carolina Vallejo Rodriguez	Special Mention		Spain	University of Valencia	Characters, correspondences and fields of values of finite groups
2018 [10]	Gareth Tracey	Winner		Ireland	University of Warwick	Minimal generation of transitive permutation groups
	Geoffrey Janssens	Special Mention		Belgium	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Identities of Affine Algebras and their Asymptotic Behaviour
2019 [11]	Not assigned
2020 [12]	Florian Eisele	Winner (ex aequo)		Germany	City University of London	A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture
	Leo Margolis	Winner (ex aequo)		Germany/ Russia	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture
	Hangyang Meng	Special Mention		China	Universitat de Valencia	Regular orbits of actions of finite soluble groups
2022 [13]	Iker de las Heras	Winner		Basque Country	University of the Basque Country	Some topics on finite p-groups and pro-p groups
	Sam Hughes	Special Mention		United Kingdom	University of Southampton	Equivariant cohomology, lattices, and trees
2024 [14]	Scott Harper	Winner		United Kingdom	University of St Andrews	The maximal size of a minimal generating set
	Jan Moritz Petschick	Special Mention		Germany	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf	Groups acting on rooted trees, the generalised Magnus property and zeta functions of groups

^a Institutions mentioned above refer to the institutions where the laureates obtained their PhD.

References

1. "Estratto sentenza 286/2018". Portale dei creditori.
2. Aracne editrice - Pubblica con noi
3. Aracne editrice - Metodi e criteri di valutazione
4. "Piccoli editori capestro - minima&moralia : minima&moralia". 2018-10-12. Archived from the original on 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
5. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
6. Elenco degli Editori registrati per la VQR | Anvur
7. "Statutes of the Reinhold Baer Prize" (PDF). Retrieved 5 November 2018.
8. "The Baer Prize Laureate 2017". AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
9. "Baer Prize to dr. Urban Jezernik". University of Ljubljana. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
10. "The Baer Prize Laureates 2018". AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
11. "The Baer Prize Laureates 2019". AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
12. "The Baer Prize Laureates 2020". AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
13. "The Baer Prize Laureates 2022". AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
14. "The Baer Prize Laureates 2024". AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications. Retrieved 24 July 2025.