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Complexity in Society - From Indicators Construction to their Synthesis. Development, construction and communication of synthetic indicators in socio-economics
No full textThis volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In the last ten years the methodology of multivariate analysis and synthetic indicators construction significantly developed. In particular, starting from the classical theory of composite indicators many interesting approaches have been developed to overcome the weaknesses of composites. This volume focuses on these recent developments in synthesizing indicators, and more generally, in quantifying complex phenomena
Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research
No full textField Editor and Editorial Board Member.
Entries under Filomena Maggino's responsibilities:
- Conceptual design of indicators (author: F. Maggino),
- Indicator Development and Construction (author: F. Maggino),
- Data Representation (authors: F. Maggino & M. Trapani),
- Guttman Scale (author: F. Maggino),
- Indicator development and construction (author: F. Maggino),
- Multidimensional Analysis (authors: F. Maggino & M. Fattore),
- Multivariate Statistical Analysis (authors: F. Maggino & M. Fattore),
- Partially Ordered Set (author: M. Fattore),
- Questionnaire Design (author: W. Saris),
- Semantic Differential (author: F. Maggino),
- Subjective Indicators (author: A. Michalos),
- Subjective Weighting (author: K. Land),
- Systems of Indicators (author: H-H. Noll),
- Weighting Schemes (author: K. Land).
The Encyclopedia:
- represents the first comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life
- covers the subject of quality-of-life from a multi disciplinary perspective
- includes the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare
Encyclopedia's Keywords: Happiness - Health - Patient-reported outcomes research - Positive Psychology - Psychology - QOL - Quality of Life Research - Social Indicators - Sociology - Spirituality - Wealth - Welfare - Wellbeing
Encyclopedia's related subjects: Economics - Medicine - Psychology - Well-Bein
Analisi del benessere e della povertà multidimensionale nello sviluppo umano
No full textL’obiettivo principale di questa curatela è quello di presentare alcune riflessioni e alcune metodologie di misurazione del progresso economico e sociale e, in particolare, del benessere e della povertà multidimensionale partendo dal paradigma dello Sviluppo Umano Sostenibile. Questo volume introduttivo, pur presentando importanti nuovi approcci metodologici ed empirici legati a queste tematiche, non ha la pretesa di essere esaustivo né in termini di metodi utilizzati né di analisi empiriche. In particolare, si focalizzerà principalmente sui concetti di benessere e di povertà multidimensionale, senza approfondire il tema della diseguaglianza
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Il dibattito verso un nuovo paradigma per la misurazione del benessere e la povertà: Una prima riflessione
No full textCapitolo 1. Il dibattito verso un nuovo paradigma per la misurazione del benessere
e la povertà: Una prima riflessione
1.1. Dallo sviluppo come progresso economico allo sviluppo umano sostenibile
1.2. Alcune riflessioni sul dibattito e le azioni verso il nuovo paradigm
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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