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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
Entro/oltre il romanzo di famiglia: la trilogia della violenza coloniale di Igiaba Scego
No full textIndagando i motivi, i modi e gli esiti cui conduce la scelta, da parte di Igiaba Scego, del romanzo di famiglia in Oltre Babilonia, Adua e La linea del colore, l’ipotesi di lettura qui proposta è che l’autrice progressivamente si allontani dal romanzo familiare più canonico e genealogico, per approdare a una sorta di meta-romanzo familiare, che da un lato interroga la definizione stessa di famiglia; e dall’altro scardina e riformula criticamente gli elementi, tematici e formali, del genere, facendo del romanzo familiare, coerentemente con il macrotesto dell’autrice, un esercizio di critica delle narrazioni e dell’immaginario (post)coloniale. Tale ipotesi sarà verificata esaminando nei tre testi: (1) la centralità del corpo come locus del trauma e della memoria; (2) la ricerca e costruzione dell’identità personale quale necessaria ricostruzione di un’appartenenza rizomatica, trans-generazionale e transnazionale; (3) la presenza di modelli familiari eccentrici e alternativi rispetto a quello patriarcale; (4) il contrasto tra le memorie familiari e le narrazioni dominanti del rimosso storico
Entro/oltre il romanzo di famiglia: la trilogia della violenza coloniale di Igiaba Scego
No full textIndagando i motivi, i modi e gli esiti cui conduce la scelta, da parte di Igiaba Scego, del romanzo di famiglia in Oltre Babilonia, Adua e La linea del colore, l’ipotesi di lettura qui proposta è che l’autrice progressivamente si allontani dal romanzo familiare più canonico e genealogico, per approdare a una sorta di meta-romanzo familiare, che da un lato interroga la definizione stessa di famiglia; e dall’altro scardina e riformula criticamente gli elementi, tematici e formali, del genere, facendo del romanzo familiare, coerentemente con il macrotesto dell’autrice, un esercizio di critica delle narrazioni e dell’immaginario (post)coloniale. Tale ipotesi sarà verificata esaminando nei tre testi: (1) la centralità del corpo come locus del trauma e della memoria; (2) la ricerca e costruzione dell’identità personale quale necessaria ricostruzione di un’appartenenza rizomatica, trans-generazionale e transnazionale; (3) la presenza di modelli familiari eccentrici e alternativi rispetto a quello patriarcale; (4) il contrasto tra le memorie familiari e le narrazioni dominanti del rimosso storico
Cultural Representations of Obstetric Violence in Contemporary Italy
Get PDFThis article is the first examination of a hybrid corpus of cultural narratives of obstetric violence in contemporary Italy. Adopting a reproductive justice approach, the paper considers obstetric violence as gendered, intersectional, and ontological violence against reproductive subjects over the course of their lived reproductive experiences. Combining personal and cultural narratives, the article examines the 2022 comic “Da Che Mondo È Mondo,” written by Irene Caselli and illustrated by Rita Petruccioli, Alberto Basaluzzo’s 2018 short film Si È Sempre Fatto così, and Antonella Lattanzi’s 2023 novel Cose Che Non Si Raccontano to assess how and to what extent they contribute to creating a transformative discourse for women and reproductive subjects. By framing obstetric violence as a concept of struggle within the Italian institutionalized social imaginary, where it still remains a divisive and barely visible subject to be avoided, the texts examined reveal the ways in which obstetric violence damages the complex relationality inherent in the human reproductive experience. These texts highlight the role of medical personnel as unconscious perpetrators of obstetric violence, and they explore how reproductive experiences such as medically assisted reproduction and pregnancy loss are equally vulnerable to violent practices and toxic narratives
Quest (ion) of Sense. Tabucchi's Poetics of the Uncanny
Get PDFThis research project originally contributes to the analysis of Antonio Tabucchi's oeuvre by proposing an interpretation of his poetics through the perspective of the uncanny.
Existing literature, despite having detected a presence of the Freudian unheimliche in the writer, has not developed this observation into a wider reading and problematisation of
Tabucchi's poetics. It has been my aim in this thesis to fill this gap, through a comprehensive analysis of Tabucchi's works and a descriptive interpretation of his poetics.
The present research takes its cue from the observation of two undisputable, interrelated facts. First, there is a threefold presence by the uncanny in the works of Tabucchi: diegetic
(the uncanny in Tabucchi), narrative (the uncanny through Tabucchi) and theoretical (Tabucchi and the uncanny). Second, this uncanny is not necessarily and solely equivalent
to Freud's unheimliche - and this is where/why Agamben comes in. Using Agamben in reading Tabucchi lets surface a philosophical enquiry within his works that would remain
otherwise overlooked. Tabucchi's philosophical enquiry is precisely the uncanny emergence of signification itself in literature (the uncanny as poetics), in relation to the
ontological (or metaphysical) view of men as creators of sense. Thus, drawing on Agamben's theorisation of the concept, the uncanny is defined, throughout this study, as a
signifying function and a process of semiosis, which, far from being reducible to a catalogue of themes and motifs, occurs as the structuring of sense in and through the literary text
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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