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No full textRiflessioni sullo stato della metdologia delle scienze umane in comparazione con le discipline fisico-naturali. Analisi del contributo di Alberto Marradi intitolato Misurazione, esperimenti, leggi: il sillogismo scientista.Reflections on the state of human sciences methodology in comparison with the physical natural disciplines. Analysis of the contribution of Alberto Marradi entitled Measuring, experiments, read: the syllogism scientistic
Identità e Natura (Research Director: Prof. Alberto Marradi)
No full textThis is the article written by Dott.ssa Rossella Martarelli - University of Bologna - in the research conducted and supervised by Prof. Alberto Marradi. Research Title: "Identità e natura". Article Title: "Apolitici e anti-partito sono figli della situazione economica?
Facultades deseadas o descartadas por una muestra de 1.500 argentinos: un análisis de los componentes principales
Full text linkThe Author applies the two-step Acp (analysis of the main components) technique proposed by Alberto Marradi in the Seventies to a set of 26 self-calibrating scales through which 1,500 Argentineans attribute a score from 0 to 10 to some properties owned by animals, plants and natural phenomena, but not from human beings.La Autora aplica el análisis de los componentes principales (Acp) en dos etapas propuesta por Alberto Marradi en los años Setenta a una batería de 26 escalas autocalibradoras a través de las cuales 1.500 argentinos atribuyen una puntuación de 0 a 10 a algunas propiedades que unos animales, plantas y fenómenos naturales tienen y los seres humanos no tienen.L'Autrice applica l'analisi delle componenti principali (Acp) in due fasi proposta da Alberto Marradi negli anni Settanta ad una batteria di 26 scale auto-calibranti attraverso le quali 1.500 argentini attribuiscono un punteggio da 0 a 10 ad alcune proprietà possedute da animali, piante e fenomeni naturali, ma non dagli esseri umani
Misurazione, esperimenti, leggi: il sillogismo scientista
No full textIn the first part of the essay the author states that the astounding progress in physics and the natural sciences has determined an inferiority complex in social scientists, with a consequent desire to enjoy a similar measure of prestige, honours, resources, and power. That desire acted as the major premise of a sort of practical syllogism (in Von Wright’s sense) whose minor premise was the conviction that experiments, measurement, and the search for laws were the pillars of the natural sciences’ success.The consequence was the imperative to follow the same path, i. e. experimenting, measuring, and looking for laws, while totally disregarding the nature of the objects of social sciences, which hardly if ever allow for bona fide experiments or measurements, and thoroughly exclude the presence of laws, i. e. of controllable and confirmable propositions concerning men, cultures, and societies all over the planet, and from the most remote past to the most distant future.After quoting vast evidence as to the presence of that syllogism in the minds of social scientists from the Enlightenment on, the author shows how, in order to conceal the absence of bona fide laws, experiments and measurement, social scientists have resorted to a lavish (ab)use of such terms as a sort of fetishes or (self-)make believes.In the second part of the essay the author supplies vast evidence of the semantic dispersion suffered by the three terms that have been used as a sort of talisman in order to pretend having passed the sacred threshold of science.In the conclusion, the author suggests to follow a radically alternative path in order to reach a status of dignity and self respect, i. e. to develop an epistemology that should adopt as a starting point the difference of social science’s objects from physics’, rather than trying to conceal it by terminological tricks
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
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
Dispelling 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
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