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Le pratiche discriminatorie dei migranti tra procedure, norme e vissuti personali: i racconti e le interpretazioni giuridiche
No full textIl capitolo è organizzato con una storia di vita e di discriminazione e un parere legale specifico sulla tipologia di discriminazione subita. La scelta di giustapporre le storie/interviste e i pareri legali era volto a creare uno strumento utile per leggere le discriminazioni multiple nella storia di vista e render visibile al lettore le discrepanze così come i nessi tra linguaggi così diversi sulla discriminazione, il racconto autobiografico e il linguaggio giuridico
Individual research performance: a proposal for comparing apples to oranges
No full textThe evaluation of performance at the individual level is of fundamental importance in informing management decisions. The literature provides various indicators and types of measures, however a problem that is still unresolved and little addressed is how to compare the performance of researchers working in different fields (apples to oranges). In this work we propose a solution, testing various scaling factors for the distributions of research productivity in 174 scientific fields. The analysis is based on the observation of scientific production by all Italian university researchers active in the hard sciences over the period 2004–2008, as indexed by the Web of Science. The most effective scaling factor is the average of the productivity distribution of researchers with productivity above zero
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
A sensitivity analysis of research institutions’ productivity rankings to the time of citation observation
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The dispersion of research performance within and between universities as a potential indicator of the competitive intensity in higher education systems
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