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Mapping research data at the University of Bologna: Data Management Plan
No full textThis data management plan (DMP) describes the process of planning, handling and depositing research data during a study carried out by the data stewards at the University of Bologna. The study itself is based on a number of DMPs produced by grantees of Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 funding who are affiliated to the University of Bologna, are either project coordinators or partners in charge of the DMP and have shared their DMP with the data stewards between May 2022 (when the team was first created) and October 2023. The analysis focuses on research data generated and managed within the institution, with respect to the differences and commonalities between disciplines and potential challenges for institutional data support services and infrastructures
Mapping Research Data at the University of Bologna: Code
No full textThe Mapping Research Data at the University of Bologna: Code contains the scripts used to analyze tabular data collected during the census phase and deposited in Mapping Research Data at the University of Bologna: Dataset (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14234555) to provide descriptive statistics and plots that answer specific research questions related to research data management activities stated in Data Management Plans at the University of Bologna.
Software:
The script is developed in R and uses the R-Studio environment to perform descriptive statistical analyses and create visualizations.
Software version:
R version 4.2.2
Code License:
GPL, "GNU General Public License", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_Licens
Back to fundamentals of research: Ethics and academic freedom. Position paper
Full text linkOn December 2, 2024, the University of Bologna organised an international event titled: “Back to Fundamentals of Research: Ethics and Academic Freedom.” The event featured prominent speakers and experts from national and international institutions, who shared their insights on emerging ethical concerns and the risks to academic freedom. Through this position paper, the University of Bologna aims to highlight the key messages that emerged from the discussions and to outline the challenges and recommendations to create a more responsible and supportive research environment
Experiments on real-life emotions challenge Ekman's model
Full text linkEkman's emotions (1992) are defined as universal basic emotions. Over the years, alternative models have emerged (e.g. Greene and Haidt 2002; Barrett 2017) describing emotions as social and linguistic constructions. The variety of models existing today raises the question of whether the abstraction provided by such models is sufficient as a descriptive/predictive tool for representing real-life emotional situations. Our study presents a social inquiry to test whether traditional models are sufficient to capture the complexity of daily life emotions, reported in a textual context. The intent of the study is to establish the human-subject agreement rate in an annotated corpus based on Ekman's theory (Entity-Level Tweets Emotional Analysis) and the human-subject agreement rate when using Ekman's emotions to annotate sentences that don’t respect the Ekman’s model (The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows). Furthermore, we investigated how much alexithymia can influence the human ability to detect and categorise emotions. On a total sample of 114 subjects, our results show low within subjects agreement rates for both datasets, particularly for subjects with low levels of alexithymia; low levels of agreement with the original annotations; frequent use of emotions based on Ekman model, particularly negative one, in people with high levels of alexithymia
Back to the Fundamentals of Research: Reliability, Transparency and Reproducibility. Position Paper
No full textOn May 20, 2024, the University of Bologna held an international event titled: “Back to fundamentals of research: Reliability, Transparency and Reproducibility” with remarkable speakers from national and international institutions. The debate revolved around what it means to perform research responsibly and whether the reproducibility of results can be used as a reliable proxy for research quality. Through this position paper the University of Bologna intends to highlight some key messages emerged from the discussions and point out challenges and recommendations in ensuring reproducibility and trustworthy methodologies in research environments
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
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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