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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
Everyone Inside. Transformation of an Inaccessible Heterotopy. The Case of Buoncammino's Prison
No full textThe specific architectural typology of the prison, congenitally
inaccessible to the urban morphological and cultural context in which it sets, as
heterotopia carries in itself physical and cognitive barriers. The day after their
abandonment, as happened for the former prison of Buoncammino in Cagliari, it’s
interesting to understand what new relationships should be put in place to make it
accessible to all of the city users, in both material and immaterial terms
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
Veni Vidi Vici. Immersioni aptiche nelle archeologie urbane
No full textThe urban archaeologies that emerge unexpectedly inside our cities represent objects with which the human being is able to identify. The fragility hidden in their very essence can actually be reflected
in human nature, which is in continuous change. Urban fragments, moreover, represent privileged places where the project can express all its creative and interpretative capacity, making them accessible and restoring the interrupted relationship with the contexts as well as with the users. The study, starting from a broad definition of the term accessibility, aims to reflect and investigate on the role that the phenomenological approach can take on in terms of accessibility and attempts to provide a methodology for analysing and controlling the project on pre-existences. This method is based on the
definition of three moments, physical, perceptual and appropriational, each of which can be further divided into categories. The effectiveness of the method is then verified on a specific case study, the archaeological centre of Almoina in Valencia, a recently conserved and enhanced fragment, which is particularly suitable for study. The performed analysis also shows that the tool has a capacity to control the quality of projects, which need continuous multidisciplinary dialogue in order to be successful also in terms of appropriational accessibility
Da barriere a frontiere. Riflessioni progettuali per il riuso delle carceri storiche sarde
No full textFollowing their decommissioning, historic prisons offer their bodies to the city as condensers of heterogeneous values and spaces. Combining the demands of conservation with those of economic sustainability and in the light of the pandemic crisis, the necessary reuse can reconnect architecture to the urban fabric, responding to the opposing needs of isolation and the sharing of open spaces, paradoxically redeeming the fierce blame to which prison architecture has been subjected
Non solo “panem et circenses”. Antifragilità di uno spettacolare patrimonio culturale
No full textThe ancient buildings for the show have proved to be “antifragili”, often hosting uses near to the original ones. Starting from the analysis of some cases, we’ll try to highlight the relationship between
them and their urban context, defining lines of action capable of balancing conservation and uses. With a new perspective inherited from the pandemic crisis, we can see that they’re able to offer inclusive outdoor spaces, giving back the right to culture and leisure
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