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Il litio protegge i motoneuroni che over-esprimono la Cu/Zn SOD1 mutata alla posizione 93 (G93A) dalla eccitotossicità kainato-mediata
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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
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
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
Facebook as a tool for raising awareness on rare diseases: the experience of Orphanet-Italy
No full textThe use of social media is growingly impacting the way general public looks for health related informations. This evidence is well reflected by the increasing occurrence of results, considering the past decade as reference time range, when the search string “social media” is entered in Pubmed.
Like other teams of the Orphanet Network, the italian one believed in the chance offered by Facebook, Youtube and Twitter to introduce the Orphanet services to a more general audience, beyond the circle of our key stakeholders: healthcare professionals, researchers, patients and caregivers. Among the cited media, the Orphanet Italia Facebook page is our most successful one; started up in 2013, it had 1249 followers in mid 2016, about 3000 at the end of 2018 and, notably, more than 9000 at the end of 2019. The follower growth rate showed a remarcable increase since a social media expert started to manage the Facebook page, from mid 2018 until now. We investigated such a phenomenon by mean of both the Facebook Insights and the Google analytics tools, to understand if a positive correlation exists between the social media engagement and the number of visits of the Orphanet website. Interestingly, we found a positive correlation between the considered variables. Also, we analysed the users’ feedback to the contents published on the Facebook page, in order to delineate a summarizing picture of our current editorial line, using a previous work on this topic, done by our team in 2016, as reference model.
The present study, to be further developed, represents a first analytical study to evaluate Facebook’s potential to introduce the general public to the quality informations provided by the Orphanet database
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