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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
La prevenzione coercitiva in Italia: ipotesi e griglie di lettura
No full textIn questo articolo si vuole ricostruire, da un punto di vista critico del diritto,
una griglia di lettura socio-giuridica di quella che definisco prevenzione coercitiva
della pericolosità.
Si tratta di un terreno di ricerca ricco di problemi e ambiguità che è stato
discretamente approfondito dal punto di vista teorico, ma si dimostra spesso
inaccessibile alla ricerca empirica. Molti sono gli studi specialistici sui diversi
tipi di misure adottabili in Italia, poche invece le ricerche che si interrogano
sul senso complessivo di questo sistema, specchio dell’intreccio di pratiche
istituzionali esercitate da attori differenti ed espressione del potere preventivo
dello Stato e degli attori locali. Ecco perché una griglia di lettura può
servire a comprendere gli scopi, le razionalità e le finalità realmente perseguite
dalle misure e dal sistema nel suo complesso, ma anche a ipotizzare quali
possano essere gli effetti produttivi che le misure potenzialmente generano
sui destinatari e sulla società
Una ricerca qualitativa sulle ordinanze di sorveglianza speciale nel territorio bolognese
No full textThe paper presents some research hypotheses on the Italian coercive prevention
apparatus through the sociological qualitative analysis of a sample of special
surveillance orders, providing the theoretical keys to analyse that apparatus and
the specific measures taken in consideration. This is a discretely theoretically
deepened field of research, but one that proves, at least in Italy, to be little accessible
to empirical socio-legal research. The aim is to hypothesize the functions
and potential effects of this institutional intervention. The reflection leads
to bring back to the center concepts and categories that only seemingly belong
to the past and indeed innervate control practices, especially preventive ones. I
refer to the policies of social defense and social alarm, aimed at the continuous
identification between deviance and threat, disorder and social danger
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
"Madri in esecuzione penale esterna in Veneto: un’analisi intersezionale”
No full textThis article presents some preliminary results of the research project “Punished Mothers:
Women with Children Serving Sentences”. By adopting an intersectional approach, the article
analyzes the situation of women who have minor children and who are serving community
based sentences in the Veneto Region. After outlining the characteristics of these women, the
contribution examines the criteria that guide magistrates’ assessments in deciding which alternative measures to grant, as well as the acceptance or denial of requests made by the women
(primarily the request for sentence deferment). Additionally, the contribution explores the factors that influence social workers in drafting reports and in their interactions with these women.
The analysis highlights how women’s relationship with the criminal justice system is influenced
by dominant cultural constructs regarding gender and motherhood, as well as by processes of
racialization and class membershi
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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