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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
Masters and Servants negli atti notarili toscani di fine Seicento
No full textInitiation into the professions of the sea required a long apprenticeship. In England, the training of young sailors was ensured by paternalistic relationships that linked the apprentice, the servant, to an experienced, usually specialised sailor: the captain, the pilot, the boatswain, the surgeon, etc. The master was a sort of vice-father, taking on the task of looking after the young man and passing on the skill to him, while the young man was expected to obey him. It often happened that the relationship between the two was adversarial, and upon landing the conflict required the intervention of the public authorities to be settled. The study examines a number of examples taken from judicial and notarial documentation that highlight the profound incomprehension of the Tuscan authorities towards this form of pseudo-parental relationship
"The Threat of the ‘Avania’: Financial Risk in European-Ottoman Trade and the Growth of an Orientalist Discourse, 1660-1710" in Un mare connesso. Europa e mondo islamico nel Mediterraneo (secoli XV-XIX)
No full textThe Consoli del Mare of Pisa, 1550-1750: an institutional and social profile
No full textThis chapter provides a first insight into the inner workings and composition
of the main tribunal in charge of commercial and maritime justice in Tuscany
under the Medici princes: the Consoli del Mare (‘Consuls of the Sea’) of Pisa.
After a brief reconstruction of the magistracy’s history from its origins, the essay
first focuses on its functioning: as other Mediterranean mercantile courts, in
order to fulfil the local and foreign merchants’ need for speedy justice, the Consoli
applied a special procedure, the so-called summary process. A preliminary
survey of the archival sources held by the Archivio di Stato di Pisa shows that
the Consoli retained their significant jurisdiction over commercial and maritime
legal cases even after the rise of the nearby Livorno eclipsed Pisa as Tuscany’s
main port city, in the first half of the 17th century. On the other hand, the court
was manned by two judges, both Florentine noblemen, helped by a small group
of legal technicians. In spite of the anecdotical and popular narrative, it seems
that appointment to the position of Console was taken quite seriously by the
Tuscan authorities until at least the end of the Medicean period, and that most
Florentines chosen for the role retained at least some connection to the world
of commerce
Turcs, esclaves, corsaires: immagini dell’altro sulla scena comica francese tra XVII e XVIII secolo
No full textLa scena teatrale costituisce un luogo ideale per interrogarsi sull’immagine dell’altro, sulla sua alterità. Il teatro si fonda, per definizione, sul rapporto tra lo spettatore e la coppia attore-personaggio. Impossibile quindi concepire un teatro senza personaggi o per essere più precisi, senza un attore che incarni un personaggio. L’estetica della vraisemblance che dalla seconda metà del XVII secolo tende verso una certa forma di realismo favorisce da un lato una sorta di simbiosi tra personaggio e attore e dall’altro l’identificazione tra spettatore e personaggio. Il teatro si trasforma così in uno specchio nel quale lo spettatore è invitato a riconoscere un suo simile. Ma cosa succede quando su quella scena si muovono turcs, corsaires, sultans...o si menzionano luoghi lontani come Algeri, Tunisi, Costantinopoli...? Grazie a un’indagine condotta a partire dal catalogo Brenner (C. Brenner, A bibliographical list of plays in the French language 1700-1789, 1947) è stato possibile delineare i confini della scena teatrale sulla quale si muovono personaggi di un altrove ormai vicino.Turcs, esclaves, corsaires: images of the other on the French comic scene between the 17th and 18th centuries
The theatre stage is an ideal place to question the image of the other, its otherness. It is therefore impossible to conceive a theater without characters or to be more precise, without an actor who embodies a character. The aesthetics of vraisemblance from the second half of the seventeenth century tends towards a certain form of realism which favors on the one hand a sort of symbiosis between character and actor and on the other the identification between spectator and character. Theater is thus transformed into a mirror in which the spectator is invited to recognize his fellow man. But what happens when turcs, corsaires, sultans move on that scene... or if you mention places as far away as Algiers, Tunis, Constantinople...? Thanks to a survey conducted from the Brenner catalogue (C. Brenner, A bibliographical list of plays in the French language 1700-1789, 1947) it has been possible to outline the boundaries of the theatrical scene on which characters from a now close elsewhere move
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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