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K. Occhi, recensione a Mauro Agnoletti, Storia del bosco. Il paesaggio forestale italiano, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2018, in: ARO, II, 2019, 3, URL https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2019/3/storia-del-bosco-katia-occhi/
K. Occhi, recensione a Mauro Agnoletti, Storia del bosco. Il paesaggio forestale italiano, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2018, in: ARO, II, 2019, 3
The Hybrid Nature of Infrastructures
Essay on the hybrid nature of infrastructure and its long-term environmental impac
K. Occhi, recensione a Thomas Max Safley, Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg, London - New York, Routledge, 2020
Recensione al volume in lingua inglese di T. M. Safley dedicato alla storia degli Höchstetter di Augusta, tra i più noti mercanti-imprenditori del Cinquecento. L’autore riflette sul momento più drammatico della loro parabola: la rovinosa bancarotta del 1527-1532 che travolse il ceto mercantile cittadino unito da legami familiari e finanziari con i protagonisti. La documentazione giudiziaria offre una serie di informazioni su: il valore delle imprese, il network commerciale, le tipologie dei capitali, l’elenco dei debitori e creditori, le strategie messe in atto per raggiungere i propri obiettivi. Un materiale ricchissimo proveniente dagli archivi cittadini di Augusta, di Norimberga, di Ulm e dall’archivio Fugger di Dillingen, integrato con documentazione pubblica degli archivi di Stato di Innsbruck, Vienna e Monaco
K. Occhi, recensione a Antonio Lazzarini, Boschi, legnami, costruzioni navali. L’Arsenale di Venezia fra XVI e XVIII secolo, Roma, Viella, 2021, in: ARO, V, 2022, 2, URL https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2022/2/boschi-legnami-costruzioni-navali-katia-occhi/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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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