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Integrated Approach for the Sustainability Measure of Industrial Products in Design Stages
No full textAn integrated approach for the sustainability measure of industrial products in design stages
No full textNowadays, companies have to deal with ever more complex environmental concerns, which affect a wider cause-effect chain, due to the pressure of both stricter environmental regulations and the new green awareness of customers. From designers’ point of view, the development of sustainable products leads engineers to take into considerations environmental aspects in concurrency with traditional technical and economical aspects since the beginning of design activities. This change of direction brings to light the importance of operating from the first stages of the products’ development.
The research work carried out is an attempt to define an integrated methodology for the assessment and the improvement of environmental performances of products based on the use of the Environmental Effect Analysis (EEA) method. For these reasons, several checklists aimed at reducing the gap between theory and practice in the use of traditional ecodesign tools were defined. The methodology was tested by means of its application to an industrial case study
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
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