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Steering heterogeneous sciences in the Dutch and Italian higher education systems
Full text linkThis paper studies how the implementation of New Public Management reforms in Higher Education affects the academic bodies’ steering in different national systems and disciplines. It is assumed that the steering capability depends on the characteristics of each system and discipline. The work includes three case studies (two Italian universities and one Dutch university); two research institutes are selected for each university: one HS institute (either Biomedical Sciences or Physics) and one SoSc institute (Management). Evidence confirms that steering capability improves in some disciplines, while other scientific fields remain hardly steerable because the levers are weak, the interest of society and policy makers in research outcomes is small, and the reputational organisations are very influential.Higher Education, Research, Funding, Evaluation, Steering, Governance, Social Sciences, Hard Sciences, New Public Management
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
Libri e strategie editoriali del Santuario della Santa Casa di Loreto nei secoli XV-XVII
No full textIl santuario di Santa Maria di Loreto o della Santa Casa ha rappresentato dagli inizi del XIV secolo un forte polo di attrazione devozionale per il mondo cristiano e un centro di irradiazione spirituale per l’Europa intera. Data la singolarità del suo legame con Nazaret, nel 1520 con il breve Alias postquam ecclesiam Leone X gli riconobbe gli stessi privilegi di cui godevano i luoghi santi d’origine apostolica della Palestina, la basilica dei SS. Pietro e Paolo a Roma e S. Giacomo di Compostella. Si contano in gran numero le cappelle, ispirate al modello lauretano, erette in varie nazioni europee da principi, vescovi e devoti di ritorno dal pellegrinaggio lauretano nonché da molte comunità cittadine per impetrare la protezione della Madonna o per ringraziarla del suo intervento salvifico in occasione di epidemie, calamità naturali e guerre. Forte impulso al radicamento del mito e alla diffusione del culto fu dato dalla proliferazione delle stampe del racconto di fondazione ascritto a Pietro di Giorgio Tolomei pubblicato a Firenze nel 1483 con il titolo "Translatio miraculosa ecclesiae Beatae Virginis Mariae de Loreto". Da allora la fortuna delle pubblicazioni relative al Santuario, promosse dai Governatori della città e dai librai, non è mai venuta meno. Per questi versi Loreto rappresenta un caso singolare e a se stante nello scenario europeo dell’antico regime tipografic
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
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
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