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sj-docx-1-eur-10.1177_09697764221125336 – Supplemental material for Economic complexity and firm performance in the cultural and creative sector: Evidence from Italian provinces
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-eur-10.1177_09697764221125336 for Economic complexity and firm performance in the cultural and creative sector: Evidence from Italian provinces by Chiara Burlina, Patrizia Casadei and Alessandro Crociata in European Urban and Regional Studies</p
Voluntary work and cultural capital: an exploratory analysis for Italian regional data
No full textThis paper addresses the relationship between voluntary work and cultural
capital, providing a conceptual framework by moving from a cultural economics
standpoint to a relational goods theory approach. The two main hypotheses
relate to a positive relationship between cultural capital and voluntary work and a
significant relationship between relational cultural goods and voluntary work. We
corroborate these assumptions empirically by applying a two-stage least squares
regression to Italian data at the regional level. The data are drawn from official
sources and cover 20 Italian regions over the span of 2005–2013. The results show
that volunteering is stimulated by cultural participation in more niche cultural goods
and is shared by individuals with some knowledge and human and artistic sensitivity.
Moreover, the consumption of specific cultural goods with a strong relational
component, such as museums, exhibitions and theatre, has a significant impact on
volunteer activity
A Multi-level Integrated Analysis of Socio-Economic Systems Metabolism: an Application to the Italian Regional Level
No full textIn the light of Italy’s current economic stagnation, characterized by mass unemployment,
especially in the south, the development of effective energy policies should be seen as an
opportunity of reducing energy dependency, so as to increase competitiveness and
sustainability. However, due to imbalances in development in the country, focus at the national
level does not reveal particular characteristics of the different regions. In this context, the
definition of specific energy actions should be based on information and analyses that refer to
integrated and multi-level perspectives, such as regional and sectoral levels. Here we
investigate, by applying a multi-scale integrated analysis of societal metabolism approach, the
imbalanced nature of development, coupled with energy consumption, of two Italian regions,
Veneto (northern Italy) and Abruzzo (southern Italy). Changes over time (1995–2007), related
to both socio-economic and biophysical indicators, are analysed at multiple levels: region,
economic sectors, and production and consumption. The results show that different structural
changes and challenges are needed to meet energy efficiency, depending on the diverse level of
regional development. They provide support for the future development of effective Regional
Energy Plans, as well as to identify potential local barriers to achieving regional competitiveness
and sustainability. Copyright©2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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