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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
Turismo e sviluppo locale sostenibile: il Parco Naturale Regionale Costa Otranto-Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase nella Macroregione Adriatico-Ionica
No full textThe “Costa Otranto-Santa Maria di Leuca and Bosco di Tricase” Regional Natural Park is the only coastal park in
Apulia. The Park is a real point of reference for the sustainable tourism and, broadly speaking, for the sustainable local
development perspectives of the area. Salento is renowned especially for its seas and beaches, but the real strong points of
this area are its environmental and cultural elements.
Moreover, the recent creation of the Ionian-Adriatic Macroregion offers a further precious contribution to strengthen both
the ongoing actions and the future projects started by the Park and the promotion of the attractiveness of the entire area.
Therefore, the aim of this paper is precisely to assess the strengths and weaknesses by means of reconstruction of the relationships between the Park and other private and public bodies since it was founded in 2006. Furthermore, the major
actions carried out by the Park so far are analyzed and several development proposals are taken into consideration with
the aim of enhancing the effectiveness of the previous actions and to verify the expected effects of the Macroregion strategy
at a local level
Maria Drudi Gambillo, fra militanza e storiografia, tra Futurismo e Informale/Maria Drudi Gambillo, between militancy and historiography, between Futurism and Informalism
No full textMaria Drudi Gambillo (Venezia 1927-Roma 1972), allieva di Lionello Venturi, fu una storica dell’arte contemporanea e critica militante, fra le prime a impegnarsi in un lavoro di riordino delle fonti storico artistiche delle avanguardie storiche in Italia, ma rimasta un po’ in ombra a causa della dipartita prematura e, soprattutto, del selezionato numero di scritti che caratterizzano il suo contributo scientifico, in gran parte dedicato alla costruzione di grande repertori catalografici. Il suo impegno, in particolare, si distinse nella cura degli Archivi del Futurismo fra 1958 e 1960, vero e proprio punto di riferimento per gli studi. Ma lo studio dell’arte contemporanea in prospettiva storiografica non le impedì allo stesso tempo di coltivare un impegno militante verso le ricerche in corso fra anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, individuando una linea di continuità fra la prima e la seconda metà del Novecento che vedeva nel Futurismo la radice di molte ricerche del presente. Maria Drudi Gambillo (Venice 1927-Rome 1972), a pupil of Lionello Venturi, was a contemporary art historian and militant critic, among the first to undertake a work of reorganizing the historical artistic sources of the historical avant-gardes in Italy, but remained a somewhat in the shade due to his untimely death and, above all, largely dedicated to the construction of large catalogs. His commitment, in particular, stands out in the care of the Archives of Futurism between 1958 and 1960, a real point of reference for studies. But the study of contemporary art from a historiographical perspective did not prevent her at the same time from cultivating a militant commitment to the research underway between the fifties and sixties, identifying a line of continuity between the first and second half of the twentieth century that she saw in Futurism the root of much research in the present.
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
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