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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
Esplorazione del sentiment sulle aree interne italiane tra una narrazione miserabilista e una estetizzante
No full textIn questi anni si assiste ad una progressione dei processi di marginalizzazione che investono le aree interne italiane, proprio come accade anche in molti altri paesi europei. I processi di marginalizzazione vanno letti in relazione a dinamiche di lungo periodo manifestatesi sin dai primi anni Cinquanta del secolo scorso. In particolare, la marginalità è stata incrementata da un lungo calo della popolazione che, talvolta, si è addirittura attesta sotto la soglia critica. Oltre a ciò, ulteriori dinamiche di lungo periodo a incrementare marginalità territoriale, si sono sommate: invecchiamento demografico, emigrazione giovanile, riduzione dell’occupazione e dell’offerta locale di servizi pubblici e privati, degrado del patrimonio culturale e paesaggistico.
In generale, queste dinamiche sono delle vere e proprie pressioni croniche che spesso, in letteratura, sono riconosciuti come fenomeni di “combustione lenta”, ovvero fenomeni che corrodono la capacità dei territori di essere resilienti, di adattarsi al cambiamento.
Complici anche politiche fortemente urbano-centriche che, negli anni, hanno interpretato le città come gli unici motori di sviluppo economico, la narrativa dominante ha spesso connotato negativamente le aree interne come territori depressi e immobili. Molti lavori recenti hanno indagato diversi aspetti di queste aree, ma ad oggi nessuno ha analizzato se e quanto questa narrativa sia stata pervasiva.
Attraverso l’utilizzo della metodologia della sentiment analysis, il presente contributo si propone di esplorare il sentiment associato a queste aree e, ove possibile, la sua geografia allo scopo di individuare eventuali concentrazioni di associazioni positive e negative.
Si parla molto di aree interne però spesso vengono usati indicatori indiretti (come l’uso del voto e dei dati elettorali come senso di insoddisfazione verso la casta) ma manca una rilevazione diretta per capire il valore che viene associato a queste aree: la domanda di ricerca che ha mosso questo lavoro è così sintetizzabile: si associano valori positivi o negativi alle aree interne? E ancora: queste aree sono comunemente definite «marginali» ma cosa si dice davvero di loro?
Il motivo per cui ci interessiamo a questo risiede nella necessità di ottenere indicazioni di policy. Come scrive Rodriguez-Pose «Bisogna cominciare a prendere sul serio queste zone abbandonate, scontente. Non con politiche statiche e sterili, ma occorrono politiche dinamiche, a lungo termine, delle politiche più immaginative, basate sul potenziale economico, che limitino i problemi sociali, che promuovano anche il movimento delle persone, per evitare che il malcontento si ingrandisca, che il risentimento cresca. Perché alla fine se in questo sistema molto integrato rimangono luoghi che non contano, se il malcontento aumenta, perdiamo tutti» (Rodríguez-Pose, 2018).
Il potenziale delle città piccole e medie e delle aree rurali è un potenziale negato e trascurato perché, il pensiero dominante tra gli economisti urbani porta all’attribuzione di un ruolo di primo piano alle grandi città. Ne Il trionfo della Città di Edward Glaeser (2011) i fattori fondamentali della crescita economica e urbana sono riassunti nella densità e nell’agglomerazione (Glaeser, 2011) il futuro, scrive Gleaser, è nelle grandi città.
Si può comprendere allora perché si stanno ribellando i cosiddetti luoghi che non contano. L’andamento economico e industriale dei luoghi marginalizzati li condanna a diventare irrilevanti agli occhi dei decisori politici e dei pianificatori.
Per questa ragione è necessario trovare le cause del declino economico di lungo periodo per formulare soluzioni ai problemi e riprendere la strada della crescita.
Riprendendo la citazione di Rodríguez-Pose di poco prima, non dimentichiamo che la ‘vendetta’ dei luoghi che non contano sta attaccando le basi del sistema: mercati aperti, mobilità ed emigrazione, accesso al mercato unico. Si tratta di una vendetta banale ma efferata: se noi non abbiamo futuro nemmeno voi l’avrete; vogliamo che tutti quelli che ottengono benefici dal sistema, sentano quello che sentiamo noi; se perdiamo noi, allora perderemo tutti.
La vendetta dei luoghi che non contano sta mettendo a rischio un sistema, che certamente ha molti problemi e che ha bisogno di una profonda riforma
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
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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