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Social Security Law
No full textThe contribution is a paragraph of a chapter, written with Carla Spinelli and Massimiliano Delfino on the recent reforms in Labour and social security law. The author, after analysing the impact of the reform on the Italian welfare state, argue that there still much to do to balance the system: in particular, basic income and a more "human" pension reform are the challenges ahead
The Great Inequality Gaps: A National Overview on Italy
No full textAt the ISLSSL Congress, held in Rome in September 2024, the working group coordinated by Catarina de Oliveira Carvalho (Porto Faculty of Law) focused on the Great Inequality Gaps. The method approved in the WG was the Q&A approach. The questionnaire was discussed in the WG and settled in April 2024. The first part (questions 1-10) of the Italian report was written by Massimiliano Delfino (University of Naples Federico II) with the collaboration of Mariagrazia Lamannis (Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro); the second part (questions 11 – 19) was explained by Carla Spinelli (University of Bari Aldo Moro) with the collaboration of Federica Palmirotta, (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia); finally, the third part (questions 20 – 28) was elaborated by Anna Zilli (University of Udine), together with Massimiliano De Falco (University of Udine). The purpose was to offer a wide overview on the national jurisdiction, to compare the situation between EU Countries and those outside the EU
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
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