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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
La ritualità dell'Italia antica come sistema di comunicazione e patrimonio culturale da conservare: il caso della Tabula Capuana.
No full textScrittura bustrofedica come supporto alla fruibilità documentaria: il caso della Tabula Capuana
No full textThe Tabula Capuana is the second longest known Etruscan text after the Liber Linteus Zagabriensis. It is a festive calendar with precise indications of ritual and ceremonial nature, dating back to the early 5th century BC. Since its discovery in the late 19th century, it has been the subject of studies, from the proto edition of 1900 to the publication of the text in collections of inscriptions. In each of the ten
sections into which the inscribed text is divided, the first line is written from right to left and continues in the next line from left to right, following a pattern that has been defined as false boustrophedon, or “snake-writing,” serpentiform, with a reversal of letters whenever the text breaks to a new line. This particular type of boustrophedon pattern is found in antiquity on other much shorter inscriptions;
other epigraphic cases, on the other hand, exhibit a simpler boustrophedon writing, meaning a change of direction in each line of writing.
In general, writing adapts to the spaces where social life takes place, such as places of worship and political squares. Texts must be interpreted in terms of their content and value as sources of historical knowledge, and proper linguistic research must identify the formal characteristics of the language. These two distinct yet coherent and parallel perspectives contribute to a constant improvement in the readability of text contexts
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
“Vetus novum vinum bibo, veteri novo morbo medeor”. Un proverbio latino tra religione, magia e vinificazione
No full textLa letteratura sentenziosa era un genere già presente nell’antica Grecia, dove i proverbi, pur considerati da Aristotele come relitti dell’antica filosofia, venivano però trasmessi con canali diversi da quelli dei testi filosofici. Se è possibile ricondurre il motto alla celebrazione delle feste del vino romane, i Meditrinalia e i Vinalia, è da chiarire sia il rapporto tra le due feste che il loro rapporto con le divinità coinvolte, particolarmente Giove e Libero. Il parallelismo tra le due parti del motto, inoltre, richiede un’analisi accurata che dia valore all’accostamento. L’interpretazione che il vino fosse medicamentum per le malattie non esclude la lettura, effettuabile grazie alle testimonianze degli autori antichi, che il mosto, ovvero il vino nuovo, venisse mescolato con il mosto dell’anno precedente per aumentarne il grado alcoolico e impedire che andasse a male, diventando quindi
medicamentum per il vino nuovo.Sententious literature was already present in ancient Greece, where proverbs, although considered by Aristotle as relic of ancient philosophy, were spread through communication channels other than those used by the philosophical texts. Even if the motto can be linked to the celebration of Roman wine festivals, the Meditrinalia and the Vinalia, the relationship between the two festivals and their connection with the involved deities, in particular Jupiter and Liber,
still lacks an interpretation. The parallelism between the two parts of the motto also requires careful analysis to give value to the comparison. The interpretation that wine was usedas a remedy for diseases affecting human health does not
preclude other forms of reading, thanks to the statements of ancient authors, that the must, or new wine, could be mixed with the must from the previous year, to increase its alcohol content and prevent it from spoiling: the old wine was thus a medicamentum for the new wine
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
Spunti sull'interpretabilità della lingua etrusca
No full textL’approccio riservato al popolo etrusco è stato per lungo tempo influenzato dall’alone di mistero che ha permeato la storia e la cultura di tale popolo: alcuni aspetti in particolare hanno alimentato questa percezione, tra cui la provenienza degli Etruschi, la loro lingua, usi e costumi. Un metodo corretto, però, necessita innanzitutto di sfatare convinzioni che non sono scientificamente supportate. Comunicare lo stato reale dell’arte, in questo come in altri ambiti, può guidare
l’alunno o l’alunna a comprendere come le informazioni che gli/le vengono fornite e che trova sui libri di testo debbano essere costantemente aggiornate e siano
il frutto di complessi studi in continua evoluzione, attraverso il coinvolgimento di specialisti in discipline differenti che attraverso le proprie specificità contribuiscono al miglioramento della conoscenza
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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