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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    S.I.D.ART (Sistema Integrato per la Diagnostica dei beni ARTistici)Durata (4.5 anni a partire dal 01/03/2002)

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    Obiettivo generale del progetto S.I.D.ART è quello di creare un sistema integrato per la diagnostica dei beni culturali che consenta l'acquisizione, l'eleborazione e l'aggregazione di misure al fine di apporntare interventi mirati con la massima efficacia, il minomo costo ed il minimo rischio per l'inegrità dell'opera anche nell'ipotesi di una sua rifunzionalizzazione. Tale sistema comprenderà la ricerca e la messa a punto di nuove tecnologie portatitli in network di metodiche classiche ed assestate, l'exporting de dati verso sistemi informativi verticali per gli operatori del settore. I soggetti coinvolti nel progetto cstituiscono una rete di competenze, distribuite sul territorio nazionale che ha in se le potenzialità di affrontare globalmente le problematiche legate al settore della diagnosi dei beni culturali

    Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?

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    In this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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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