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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
La residenza temporanea per studenti in Italia come nuova declinazione dell’abitare la città
No full textItaly's school and higher education system has pratically always focused exclusively on developing and delivering teaching models. The provison of facilities like student residences has almost always been a very secondary concern. The result is today's chronic shortage of student accomodation and tha scant attention given to architectural models to meet the complex series of requirements specific to university residences. The few projects that have tackled this particular sector are not part of a concerted plan but isolated interventions
Abitare il cambiamento: le forme dell’abitare = Living the change: the forms of living
No full textLa società è in continua evoluzione e anche il modo in cui essa si
relaziona alla città e la abita. Il continuo trasferimento di popolazione tra
le città e la comparsa di nuove categorie sociali inducono ad un sempre
più forte ripensamento della relazione intercorrente tra bisogno sociale e
bisogno individuale. Le residenze evidenziano in tale contesto la necessità
di declinarsi in nuove forme e consentire nuovi modi d'uso dello spazio
abitativo. Il più importante interlocutore di questo mutato orizzonte
sociale è senza alcun dubbio il soggetto pubblico. A lui, sempre più che in
passato, spetta la regolamentazione degli spazi urbani ma anche degli
spazi residenziali da destinare alle fasce sociali fragili che compongono, di
fatto, ben oltre la metà dell'intero tessuto sociale delle nostre città. A
fronte di queste sfide le città italiane sembrano totalmente impreparate.
Caratterizzate da un patrimonio edilizio pubblico particolarmente esiguo e
vetusto, continuano a reiterare modelli abitativi incapaci di interpretare le
dinamiche contemporanee. Il saggio, partendo da alcune riflessioni tratte dallo studio e dalla comparazione di esperienze italiane ed europee,
evidenzia le azioni intraprese dalle diverse realtà europee che hanno
voluto porre particolare attenzione ai bisogni individuali e sociali dei
nuovi cittadini.Society is constantly in evolution and also the way in which it relates to the city and
lives it. The continuous transfer of population between cities and the emergence of new
social categories lead to an increasingly strong rethinking of the relationship between
individual and social needs. In this context, the residences highlight the need to be
declined into new forms and allow new ways of using the living space. The most
important interlocutor of this changed social horizon is undoubtedly the public subject.
More and more than in the past, he is responsible for regulating urban spaces but also
residential spaces to be allocated to the fragile social classes that make up, in fact, well
over half of the entire social fabric of our cities. Faced with these challenges, Italian
cities seem totally unprepared. Characterized by a particularly small and old public
building stock, they continue to reiterate housing models unable to interpret the
contemporary dynamics. The essay, starting from some reflections taken from the study
and comparison of Italian and European experiences, highlights the actions taken by
the different European realities that wanted to pay particular attention to the
individual and social needs of new citizen
McLaren Technology Centre: sinergie tecnologiche tra innovazione automobilistica e architettura
No full textTwo charismatic figures came together to create the Technology Centre, the new headquarters of Formula 1 racing team, McLaren's chairman, Ron Dennis and architect Norman Foster.
The collaboration between the two teams led to this cutting-edge complex where latest generation automotive technology has been skilfully included in the architecture
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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