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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
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
Prefabrication in Italy after World War II: Zanuso versus Camus
No full textThe paper intends to investigate, within Italian architectural production from the end of World War II down to the sixties, the meaning given to the term "prefabrication" and "industrialization" in the construction industry. Italy, unlike other European countries, never opted decisively and in a widespread way for this type of approach. However, it did develop its own response to this issue, on an occasional basis, in the period between the wars and in a broader and more highly articulated way in the 1950s and 60s. The issue of the rationalization of building production, arising out of obvious economic and productive requirements, became central in the immediate postwar period, especially since it was seen as a possible solution to the housing shortage, made even more urgent by wartime destruction.
The proof of the real interest felt is shown by the presence of numerous exhibitions, conferences, journals and features in specialized architectural reviews, but above all by the birth of organizations such as the AIP (Associazione italiana prefabbricazione) and CRAPER (Centro per la ricerca applicata ai problemi dell’edilizia residenziale).
As awareness spread of the Italy’s backwardness compared to other European countries, in the northern Italy there was a willingness to pick up on the echo of experiments in the rest of Europe, especially Britain and France. A central moment was the Italian experimental program, small in scale, but extremely significant for the cultural and architectural context, begun by the Milan Triennale, which initiated the construction of a housing complex, QT8, where new solutions could be studied with the aim of developing building systems from an artisanal to an industrial stage.
In the early sixties, to meet the real need for housing, the idea was consolidated of making use of prefabrication, even if the country's economic policy had prevented it from developing beyond the experimental phase of the systems tested between 1947 and 1951 in Milan. Thinking was moving in the direction of "heavy" prefabrication, in which France appeared to represent the state of the art in Europe. An important step, which marked a turning point in Italy, was the import of French patents for the construction of new residential districts. The first noptable outcome of this work was the five-year program of the IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari) in Milan. Extremely significant for urban, architectural and constructional solutions was the Gratosoglio development to the south of Milan (with over 3570 home units), designed by BBPR and built between 1963 and 1969 using the Camus system.
If housing output in Italy opted for systems that were already tried and tested elsewhere, research and experimentation continued thanks to the thinking about design by architects/industrial designers, who made this theme central to their architectural production. In particular, Marco Zanuso concentrated on the design of industrial complexes for the Olivetti company in Italy (Ivrea, Crema, Marcianise) and South America (Merlo in Argentina and Guarulhos in Brazil), creating solutions highly relevant to this architectural sector
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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