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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
Variations on the Author
“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
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
La tutela civilistica del Mar Piccolo
Il lavoro si incentra sulla necessità di ripensare,
in termini di maggiore efficacia, la tutela del
Mar Piccolo, un prezioso patrimonio del Mediterraneo
assoggettato a una fortissima pressione
antropica che ne ha determinato il peggioramento
della qualità ambientale. Si delinea, pertanto,
una possibile tutela civilistica del bacino tarantino
attraverso la funzionalizzazione degli istituti
del diritto civile alla tutela dell’ambiente e alla
sostenibilità dello sviluppo
"Parco Regionale Mar Piccolo". Aspetti de iure condito e prospettive de iure condendo.
Il presente lavoro, partendo dall’analisi della normativa nazionale e regionale in materia di tutela delle aree naturali protette, si pone come obiettivo di verificare, alla luce dei testi e delle varie e numerose impostazioni dottrinali se, ed eventualmente in quale misura, si possano individuare, nell’esperienza giuridica romana, dei limiti alla libera fruizione delle risorse marine da parte dei consociati.This contribution, starting from the analysis of the national and regional legislation on the
protection of protected natural areas, aims to verify, in the light of the texts and the various and
numerous doctrinal approaches, if, and possibly to what extent, it is possible identify, in the
Roman legal experience, the limits to the free use of marine resources by the associates
1Geopedagogia mediterranea. Il modello di una green (intercultural) education per la sostenibilità ambientale
Il contributo, dopo aver mostrato il rapporto che
da sempre lega l’uomo alla natura e la riflessione
pedagogica all’ambiente, propone una lettura
della mediterraneità, quale categoria
epistemologica fondamentale di una pedagogia
geostoricamente fondata, attenta all’humanitas e,
in particolare, alle dimensioni della identità,
diversità e reciprocità, che, oggi, sempre più
indaga con un approccio situato. Si partirà con
l’analizzare il duplice legame uomonatura/
pedagogia-ambiente, che oggi esprime
tutte le sue potenzialità nel paradigma
dell’outdoor education, per poi esaminare la
mediterraneità e il suo valore epistemico
nell’ambito della riflessione pedagogica
contemporanea e delineare la natura, i confini e
le possibilità di una geopedagogia mediterranea,
quale modello di una green (intercultural)
education per la sostenibilità ambientale
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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