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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
Investimento, innovazione e politiche per lo sviluppo industriale. Quo vadimus?
No full textIl perdurare della crisi economica, le strategie delle "nuove potenze industriali" e il definitivo consolidamento sui mercati globali di una lunga lista di paesi cosiddetti emergenti hanno spinto le economie di prima industrializzazione a manifestare un rinnovato, ed esplicito, interesse nei confronti della politica industriale. La "nuova domanda di politica industriale" ha prodotto effetti visibili nei documenti di policy in Europa e Stati Uniti. Tali spinte si affiancano a una nuova animosità nel dibattito scientifico in materia di politiche industriali. Tanti gli aspetti da sottolineare nel tentativo di rispondere alla domanda: come stimolare investimento, pubblici e privati, con interventi che siano veramente innovativi, che sappiano evitare gli errori del passato? A tal fine ci concentriamo su alcuni aspetti a nostro avviso cruciali: (1) il tema della selettività degli interventi; (2) la questione dell'efficacia dell'intervento di policy; (3) il legame fra obiettivi, strumenti e target; (4) il tema delle politiche industriali come politiche per lo sviluppo; (5) il ruolo delle università e delle reti di ricerca
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
Le strategie competitive nel retail banking. Segmentazione della clientela, modelli organizzativi e politiche commerciali
No full textIl retail banking è il settore strategicametne rilevante sia nell'ottica dell'efficienza interna delle banche italiane, in termini di performance dei singoli busines, sia nell'ottica dell'efficienza esterna, in quanto tale attività svolge un ruolo determinante nel sostegno delle economie locali. Muovendo dai fattori chiave, il volume offre un contributo alla comprensione dell'evoluzione in atto nel retail banking, confrontando la situazione nazionale con quella internaizonale e facendo emergere gli orientamenti strategici prospettici
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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