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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
Cosmopolitans of regionalism: dealers of omnivorous taste under Italian food truck economic imaginary
Full text linkCultural omnivorousness has gained relevance as a suitable theory to explain contemporary patterns of consumption, but the actual dealing of omnivorous taste by economic actors and businesses has been mostly overlooked. Through ethnographic research, this article explores how Italian gourmet food truck operators concretely produce claims of authenticity for omnivorous seekers. First, the adoption of the perspective of food truck operators highlights the reflexive and market-bounded nature of the omnivorous taste reproduction. Moreover, “being authentic” becomes an imperative for tastemakers, imposed by the economic imaginary. Finally, the centrality of regionalism in the Italian production of authenticity suggests that localism, too, has been subsumed by global food imaginaries and that regionalism expresses a cosmopolitan attitude. Taken together, these findings allow the integration of existing theory of food cultural omnivorousness: “gourmet” food must be authentic to be recognised by omnivores and distinctive to be successful on markets
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
Urban interiors
No full textIn the present-day city, the quality of the places is not just the result of its architecture but is increasingly linked to a diffused urban landscape; a sort of Buzz design, the definition Andrea Branzi uses for the shower of small and medium-size projects that contribute to creating a new level of expression and culture of the urban setting. The new nature of urban areas leads to some reflections about the competencies that are necessary for their organic planning, not strictly imposed from above, but acting more through an integrated system of micro-interventions that are better apt to deal with the characteristics of volatility, temporariness, and velocity of adjustment, typical of the postmodern era. Planning expertise, capable of connecting different disciplines in a context marked by complexity, generating a global transformation through local and specific interventions, from interiors to urban landscape, applying the concept of “see small to see more.”
The essay aims to investigate the design approach to urban transformations through the interpretation of several theories including Ugo La Pietra's interior through exterior, the urban leftovers theorized by Luciano Crespi, and the in-between spaces identified in Giovanna Piccinno's publications. Through a critical reading, the text identifies how the design of interiors and spaces becomes, therefore, a tool for urban space’s re-development through different approaches linked by a single crucial theme: the centrality of space’s user, according to the Global Public Space Toolkit (2016), which defines a public place, “a portion of an area or location designated or available for or being used by someone. Place comes to existence when people give meaning to a part of a larger space. Places that have a strong sense of place have an identity and character felt by local inhabitants “.
The importance of urban space, meant as a connective space, a space of sociality, a space of connection between public and private, emerges even more strongly in these years in which the health emergency has led, on the one hand, to an increase in the use of the outdoor space as an appendix and an alternative to confined space, and, on the other hand, to regain the meaning of place dedicated to the community, a platform of personal and physical relationships and a medium for the recognition and sense of belonging of the inhabitant.
“In contemporary societies, public space has become a medium, a tool, an enabler, a place where everybody should feel included and have the possibility of personalizing, reclaiming and conquering it. At the same time, public space is the best platform for designers to think about the future of cities. It is the ideal framework for testing and prototyping new ideas and possibilities, and creating future scenarios that can then be shared, discussed, and debated. Public space should be the place where individual and societal freedom is most represented and by rethinking and re-shaping it, designers are affecting people’s present and future lives. In this framework, design is a powerful and meaningful instrument to transform public space from a mirror in which society is merely reflected into a tool that can change society in a collaborative way. However, design should not be approached only as a physical and material intervention. The way in which urban transformation processes are conceptualized and ignited can also be designed and curated to foster an augmented citizenship more active and conscious.” (Tato et alii 2020)
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
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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
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