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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
Archeologia di un paesaggio marginale: la pianura di Catania prima e dopo le opere della bonifica
No full textLa pianura alluvionale catanese - la più ampia della Sicilia con i suoi 428 km2 - è stata coinvolta direttamente e indirettamente nelle vicende che hanno segnato l’evoluzione dell’area ionica fin dai primi passi del popolamento umano nell’isola che sono qui registrati. L’età delle apoikiai (VIII sec. a.C.) costituisce un episodio fondamentale della complessa sto- ria insediativa dell’area: il territorio di Catania e Lentini, entità politiche entro la cui sfera d’influenza va inquadrata la pianura, in età romana assunse pienamente le forme di un paesaggio rurale, la cui vocazione produttiva è ripresa pienamente soltanto nella seconda metà del XX secolo, in seguito ai lavori della grande bonifica. Infatti, il carattere torrentizio dei corsi d’acqua, le frequenti esondazioni e l’esistenza di sorgive che per mancanza di adeguati canali di scolo si impaludavano permanente- mente, costituivano i principali motivi del verificarsi di inondazioni durante la stagione piovosa, e di impaludamenti nei pe- riodi asciutti: questi elementi, almeno dal Medioevo al secondo dopoguerra, hanno reso inabitabile e malsana la più ampia pianura alluvionale della Sicilia. Il paesaggio locale è stato radicalmente modificato dalle opere di bonifica e di sistemazione agraria della prima metà del XX secolo che hanno esteso ulteriormente gli agrumeti e le colture ortive. Se da un lato è inne- gabile la notevole ricchezza del patrimonio archeologico distribuito ai margini del territorio, dall’altro emerge uno scarno numero di ricerche e di tentativi di sintesi storico-topografiche sulla storia dell’insediamento e della viabilità in questo settore dell’isola: ricognizioni sul campo e ricerche condotte nell’archivio del Consorzio della Bonifica della Piana di Catania per- mettono oggi di riconsiderarne il tradizionale vacuum informativo, consentendo una preliminare presentazione dei dati fin qui emersi
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
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No full textIn an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola.In an article by Marfella et al, the author name C. Saron is incorrect and should be listed as C. Sardu. Therefore the correct author list is: R. Marfella, F. Cacciapuoti, M. Siniscalchi, F. C. Sasso, F. Marchese, F. Cinone, E. Musacchio, M. A. Marfella, L. Ruggiero, G. Chiorazzo, D. Liberti, G. Chiorazzo, G. F. Nicoletti, C. Sardu, F. D'Andrea, C. Ammendola, M. Verza and L. Coppola
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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