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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
Definition of Indicators for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Resilience in Italy
No full textThe 30 January 2020 the World Health Organization declared the beginning of a global pandemic emergency. Italy was among the first European Countries to be severely impacted by the COVID-19 virus. This short communication describes the organisation of a project investigating different responses to the pandemics, studying the assessment of local and national Health Systems resilience to a biologic hazard such is a Coronavirus. Preliminary results highlighted a fragmented response to the epidemics across the Italian territory probably connected to different public health policies or local emergency management models. The implementation of a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis is provided to study which are the main important indicators to be considered in the pandemic management. The analysis highlights the successful and effective measures for pandemic planning considering different systems: health, economic, political, socio-psychological, demographic, and emergency
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
The role of sustainable energy and climate action plans: Synergies with regional sustainable development strategies for a local 2030 agenda
Full text linkThe current environmental and socio-economic crises call for urgent actions, the efficacy of which depend on the coordination among different levels of governance. Response strategies must be devised at different scales, ranging from the international to the local level. This paper explores local “Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans” as enacting tools of “Regional Strategies for Sustainable Development.” Starting from the assessment of the general situation in Italy, the study then focuses at the local level with the Municipality of Montemarciano in the Marche region (central Italy), selected because partner of the EU Interreg project “RESPONSe.” Findings highlight that sustainability and climate issues are not homogeneously acknowledged throughout the Italian regions. There seems to be a significant north-south divide in the adoption of Regional Strategies, while Action Plans appear more scattered. Regional and municipal efforts are not fully aligned, given the lack of a clear relation between actions and policies. In contrast, the potential benefits of an effective coordination emerge within the specific case study of Montemarciano: not only the Action Plan seems able to support the achievement of energy and climate objectives, but it might also contribute to other areas, such as health, water and biodiversity. Given the similar structure, timing and background, the examined local Action Plan appears to support the Regional Strategy pushing forwards the overall sustainable development of the area. Such synergy would also foster the partnership among stakeholders strongly advocated at the international level
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
On the impact of interference on data protocol performance in multicellular wireless packet networks with MIMO links
No full textWe study here the performance of the data transmission protocol in a multicell SDMA/TDMA MIMO system running a distributed throughput-driven slot allocation algorithm, as a function of reuse distance, propagation exponent, and network load. Multiple antenna elements are used at both transmitter and receiver side, and perfect channel state information (CSI) is available at the receiver only. A simplified scenario with two access points is considered. We find that the capacity of the network is heavily affected by the presence of interference and we show that the joint use of an estimation of interference covariance matrix and adaptive stream-limited antenna selection prevents capacity degradation when the offered load increases. The results show that the adaptive stream-limited antenna selection introduces a considerable performance improvement over the traditional approach of frequency reuse
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