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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
LA DEMOCRAZIA INTERNA AI PARTITI POLITICI. BILANCI E PROSPETTIVE
Full text linkThe paper focuses on the internal democracy of the political parties, with particular attention to the concept of the " democratic method " governed by Article 49 of the Italian Constitution .
Empirical observation of the parties and scientific research underline a framework marked today by two general phenomena . On one hand, the continuing tendency of the Parties to "cartelization " and, on the other hand, the decreasing of the powers of the militants , the weakening of the structures and the personalization of the national and local structures.
In Italy, this scenario has to deal with article 49 of the Italian Constitution , an article that originally represented the will to overcome the neglect of the phenomenon of " political parties " , giving them constitutional significance , marking “de facto” a sharp break with the liberal Italy.
Today the Italian political parties are facing a crisis of legitimacy and authority, perhaps even greater than the one that dramatically changed the political landscape in the early nineties . Despite this, they still retain all the functions and policies of the previous decades and are still the fulcrum around which revolves the functioning of democratic institutions . This fact led some researchers to describe the situation as an Italian “party system without parties”.
In particular, the controversy of the doctrine concerned the lack of interest of the Parties in the “democratic method " included in Article 49 of the Italian Constitution .
Accepting therefore, the more widespread interpretation of the doctrine that extends the prescription of the " democratic method " even to the internal organization of the political Parties, we have focused on the status quo of the past and current Italian Party organizations through the study of the statutes of the major Parties and through a comparison beginning from some fundamental institutions.
The overall scenario is therefore focused on the political Parties that have little in common with the mass parties of the twentieth century and that, in the face of profound social changes , have not been able to introduce neither by laws nor by practice, new methods of democratic participation in political processes . Just to deal with the crisis of legitimacy caused by these events, it is now widely thought that it is necessary to pass a law governing the implementation of Art. 49 of the Constitution, including the concept of " democratic method " .
As we were writing ,however, an important innovation was introduced. By a decree of the Letta Government, approved by the government on December 13th , the possibility to access to the financial aid for political Parties becomes subject to compliance with the requirements of democracy and transparency. It’s the first time ever.
Finally, we can also add a final reflection on the primaries, both those that are regulated via private law and those institutions regulated by public law. The primaries have strengths and weaknesses , but now it seems to be an essential tool in the processes to democratize the political Parties.
For political Parties to recover authority, it is necessary, therefore , to interfere with force in the mechanisms used to regulate the internal democracy organization . While it now seems that legislative intervention designed to regulate certain processes is necessary, it is understood that it needs to be accompanied by some self-regulatory experiments of the political Parties , so that the statutes are freely available to introduce the willingness to "open " the Party and to encourage the members of the Parties to make decisions
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
The new italian populism : social exclusion, technocratic rhetoric and the new »social« movements
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