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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
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
Un modello sintetico per il dimensionamento dei servizi minimi di trasporto comunale
Full text linkThe research examines the relationship between the municipality transit demands and the country attributes and builds a generally expendable synthetic model to assess the public transit haul.
The data-base effected to support the data processing includes 157 public transit subsidy recipient municipalities located in 4 different Italian regions.
The selection of the model independent variables is been marked by the international literature on the topic and it has required the analysis of each variable and a verify of statistical inference by the Fisher and Student tests; we have also assess the risk of collinearity among the selected independent variables by the Variance inflationary factor. The calibration was made by multiple regressions with a growing grade (linear, quadratic, cubic and so on) until remains appeared not-aggregable.
After an introduction (section 1) that explains the topic relevance and a state-of-the-art (section 2) aimed also to identify the most important variables affecting the phenomenon, sections 3 and 4 deal with the selection of the significant variables and the model building and calibration respectively; the last section (5) discusses the results and the applicative spin-off
Le elezioni europee 2004: tipo di competizione, sistemi elettorali adottati ed offerta partitica
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