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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    Legal tools for urban regeneration.

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    The contemporary debate, in terms of urban redevelopment, has identified common goods as its reference model, outlining a way of intervention that provides the direct participation of citizens in forms of management based on self-government, direct democracy and the absence of imposed hierarchies. In these terms, private law, overcoming urban planning and public law, can help build a civic community in which innovation processes that are not directly attributable to the power of the administrator arise. In this sense, the paper intends to investigate three legal instruments that could facilitate the implementation of these processes: The Common Good Foundation, which basically consists in deducing in the private legal form of the open foundation not only a complex of passive assets, but also a collective activity and subjectivity. The trust, which can be useful for accelerating processes, making them more competitive in terms of efficiency, transparency and targeted use of resources since where the public cedes powers to the private sector. The SPAB (Società per Azioni Buone), a newly born instrument in Favara (Agrigento), which aims to create a company open to everyone: every citizen can be a shareholder and therefore owner of a small piece of town. Bottom-up practices that aim to give voice to citizens' needs are the lifeblood to support and implement the various urban projects. The tools described in this paper want to stimulate this scenario of regeneration and therefore to implement a practice of redemption of public spaces by citizens

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Off-cells: a place of work for Casentinesi Forests

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    “Off-cells. Un luogo del lavoro per le Foreste Casentinesi” è il progetto presentato alla Biennale di Venezia 2018 da Diverserighestudio, uno dei cinque gruppi di progettazione selezionati per il Padiglione Italia dal Curatore Mario Cucinella. “Arcipelago Italia” guarda ai territori distanti, fuori dalle città e dalle aree urbane maggiori: l’area di boschi secolari al confine tra Toscana ed Emilia Romagna ha, ancor più di altre, stimolato a riflettere sulle potenzialità che le risorse materiali del luogo offrono all’architettura e sulla rete di relazioni che esse possono alimentare, diventando occasioni di rilancio di sistemi insediativi indeboliti da decenni di marginalizzazione, ma ancora straordinariamente ricchi di potenzialità."Off-cells. A place of work for Casentinesi Forests“ is the project presented at Biennale di Architettura 2018 in Venice by Diverserighestudio, one of the five design groups selected for Italian Pavilion by the Curator Mario Cucinella. “Arcipelago Italia” looks to distant territories, outside the cities and major urban areas: this area of secular woods on the border between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna has, even more than others, stimulated to reflect on both the potential that the material resources of the place offer to architecture and the network of relationships that they can form, becoming opportunities for relaunching settlement systems weakened by decades of marginalization, but still extraordinarily rich in potential
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