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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
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
An ex post criticism, based on stakeholders’ preferences, of a residential sector’s energy master plan: the case study of the Sicilian region
No full textEnergy master plans are important tools for an effective and sustainable land governance. On the other hand, the stakeholder role in setting priorities for
planning energy interventions is dramatically increasing,
also in the light of recently issued European directives.
The priorities of energy-saving measures of the
Sicilian energy and environmental master plan were
originally established with the application of typical
economic indicators (the cost of saved energy and the
cost of avoided pollutant emissions). During the prioritization
process, there was a minor contribution from
stakeholders who were not directly involved in the
priority-setting process but were only asked to express
their opinions according to the in-force regulations.
Based on more active stakeholder involvement in hierarchizing
a given set of actions, as required by the
recently issued directives, the University of Palermo,
which participated in the development of this master
plan, assessed an ex post evaluation of these established
economy-based priorities, by means of the application
of a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) tool. The
resulting changed priorities, which lead to a better policy
allocation of the regional budget for energy efficiency in
the building sector, confirm the preeminent role played
by the stakeholders in the development of energy plans,
further supported by a sensitivity analysis
A Method for Analysing Heating Demand and Energy Saving Actions for Regional Residential Building Stocks
No full textIn this paper a method is described, originally conceived during the compilation of the Energy and
Environmental Regional Plan of Sicily, aimed to:
a) set up a lay-out model of an overall regional residential estate into a certain number of different
building and heating system types;
b) calculate the energy needs of every single type according to the procedures established by the
national and European regulations;
The method is particularly designed to evaluate the possible energy savings from the implementation
of different interventions concerning the envelope and the HVAC systems to the various building
types.
The method, although based on several assumptions, shows to be reliable enough and is also
characterized by a simple structure easily adoptable by planners and technicians in their attempt to
lead regional energy policies toward more sustainable paths.
The method has been validated against the aggregate value of the real energy demand deriving from
the regional energy balance
A bottom-up method for evaluating the whole energy demand of large residential building stocks: an application to a regional scale
Full text linkIn this paper a method is described, originally conceived during the compilation of the Energy and
Environmental Regional Plan of Sicily, aimed to:
a) set up a lay-out model of an overall regional residential estate into a certain number of different
building and heating system types;
b) calculate the energy needs of every single type according to the procedures established by the
national and European regulations;
The method is particularly designed to evaluate the possible energy savings from the implementation
of different interventions concerning the envelope and the HVAC systems to the various building
types.
The method, although based on several assumptions, shows to be reliable enough and is also
characterized by a simple structure easily adoptable by planners and technicians in their attempt to
lead regional energy policies toward more sustainable paths.
The method has been validated against the aggregate value of the real energy demand deriving from
the regional energy balance
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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