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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Biblioteche accademiche in rete per la terza missione? Valorizzazione, inclusione e nuove opportunità strategiche
No full textIn recent years, Italian academic libraries have undertaken third mission activities linked to the enhancement of their heritage: library science scholars have already been studying this kind of initiatives, and today the Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (Anvur) considers such actions as a result of the institutional commitment of a university library. A workshop, organized by the Library System of the University of Ferrara together with the Italian library association during the Stelline congress 2022 (Milan, 11 march), analyzed the case study of the bibliotour Storie di libri e palazzi, set up by the University of Ferrara; the workshop also explored new strategic opportunities for the enhancement of academic libraries’ heritage, firstly the inclusion of all audiences, with specific reference to Goal 10 (“Reduce inequalities”) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Furthermore, this perspective embraces potentially the entire corpus of recommendations provided by the Agenda. The paper is intended not only to report the main ideas that emerged during the workshop held in Milan but, starting from them, also to suggest building a network of academic libraries, in order to facilitate the communication of third mission initiatives and their public outreach. Therefore, full adherence to the inclusive dimension and the commitment to sustainable development are two new strategic opportunities for academic library activities related to heritage enhancement. AIB has been supporting both strategies for several years, by means of concrete actions, such as the “Maria A. Abenante” Award, as well as organizational structures, like the Observatory on library and sustainable development (Obiss).In anni recenti le biblioteche accademiche italiane hanno intrapreso attività di terza missione legate alla valorizzazione del proprio patrimonio, entro una linea d’azione già in parte esplorata dalla letteratura biblioteconomica, ed oggi anche oggetto d’indagine dell’Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca (Anvur) quale espressione delle funzioni istituzionali di una biblioteca di ateneo. Un workshop, organizzato dal Sistema bibliotecario dell’Università degli studi di Ferrara e dall’Associazione italiana biblioteche in occasione del convegno delle Stelline 2022 (Milano, 11 marzo), ha analizzato il caso-studio dell’itinerario biblioturistico “Storie di libri e palazzi” attivo presso l’ateneo estense, e ha consentito di approfondire la riflessione su nuove opportunità strategiche entro le quali contestualizzare l’azione bibliotecaria di valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale universitario. Si tratta, in primis, dell’impegno per l’inclusione di tutti i pubblici, con specifico riferimento all’Obiettivo 10 (“Ridurre le diseguaglianze”) dell’Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite, ma potenzialmente la prospettiva abbraccia l’intero corpus di raccomandazioni contenute nel documento. Il presente contributo intende restituire i principali spunti emersi durante il laboratorio milanese e, a partire da essi, aprirsi alla concreta proposta di una rete fra le biblioteche accademiche, utile ad agevolare la comunicazione delle iniziative di terza missione e a favorire il raggiungimento dei pubblici. A questo scopo, nuove opportunità strategiche per le biblioteche di ateneo che operano sul fronte della valorizzazione sono individuate nella piena adesione alla dimensione inclusiva e nell’impegno per lo sviluppo sostenibile, istanze che da tempo AIB supporta attraverso iniziative concrete, come l’istituzione del Premio Maria A. Abenante, e specifici assetti organizzativi, quale l’Osservatorio biblioteche e sviluppo sostenibile (OBISS)
Le iniziative collegate ad Agenda 2030 attuate e in programma nelle biblioteche dell'Emilia-Romagna. Report dell'indagine 2020-2021
No full textRapporto dell'indagine condotta negli anni 2020-2021 dalla Sezione Emilia-Romagna dell'Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB). L'indagine mirava a mappare le iniziative svolte o in programma nelle biblioteche dell'Emilia-Romagna al fine di contribuire agli Obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile (SDGs) dell'Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite. Il progetto intendeva anche supportare l'elaborazione di uno strumento utile ad indagini simili da svolgere in altre regioni italiane.Report of the survey carried out by the Emilia-Romagna regional section of the Italian Library Association (AIB) in 2020-2021. The survey aimed at mapping the initiatives, planned or developed by the libraries located in Emilia-Romagna, in order to contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project also intended to help work out a tool for similar surveys to be carried out in other Italian regions
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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