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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
Tre strutture con la mensa al centro
No full textNell’indagine sui comportamenti di consumo alimentare di chi vive “ai
margini”, questo capitolo si focalizza sulla descrizione delle tre mense selezionate – Mensa dell’Antoniano, Mensa della Caritas e Servizio di distribuzione di pasti caldi all’interno di un Centro diurno comunale sito in via del Porto – e sulle “regole del gioco” da seguire al loro interno per il reperimento del cibo.
I tre luoghi individuati non sono gli unici nella città di Bologna che assicurano un pasto caldo a coloro che attraversano un momento di difficoltà, ma sono quelli che, concentrando quotidianamente il maggior numero di fruitori, sono stati riconosciuti i più idonei per intercettare i diversi volti della povertà, la coesistenza di plurime situazioni, anche delle forme meno visibili o meno esplicite.
Il capitolo si apre con una breve descrizione delle tre strutture nelle quali si inseriscono le mense selezionate: la loro storia, la “filosofia” a cui si ispirano e la loro articolazione interna. Si prosegue concentrandosi sulle modalità di accesso alle mense e di fruizione dei pasti, e sugli aspetti estetici e funzionali di questi luoghi: come si presentano agli occhi di chi li frequenta, che tipo di arredamento e atmosfera caratterizzano lo spazio dedicato alla consumazione del pasto, che tipo di cibo viene loro offerto e in che modo, chi trovano ad accoglierli e a servirli, quale spazio viene eventualmente
destinato ad attività di tipo ludico e ricreativo. A conclusione, vengono proposte alcune brevi riflessioni sullo “spazio di manovra” possibile all’interno delle strutture da parte dei fruitori, anche nell’ottica dei processi di agency. Come vedremo, infatti, vivere in condizione di povertà non significa essere incapaci di scegliere e agire di conseguenza
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
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
I significati simbolici del cibo
No full textOltre al servizio alimentare come parte del welfare, nel saggio si mette in evidenza come il cibo sia principalmente un fatto sociale,
che il cibo è buono da pensare ma anche buono da esperire. Se hanno un’altra scelta, gli esseri umani non mangiano in solitudine. Nell’atto di cucinare, mangiare e nutrire il prossimo, gli esseri umani hanno celebrato nel corso della storia la natura sociale del consumo di cibo, il fatto che il cibo invia messaggi sia al corpo che alla mente, e che il viaggio dal campo e dalla fattoria alla cucina e alla bocca è un viaggio sociale, reso attraente dai legami di parentela, di amicizia e di compagnia
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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