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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
Dire estetica, fare estetica con l'architettura
No full textIl saggio affronta il tema del'"estetica realizzata" focalizzandosi sulla maniera peculiare del "fare estetica" nel caso specifico dell'architettura. "Frammenti" della disciplina dell'estetica ricorrono randomicamente nel "discorso" sull'architettura: sia che si tratti di una organica trattazione teorica, sia che si tratti della didattica della progettazione architettonica sia che si tratti dell'interlocuzione tra architetto e cliente. Il progetto infatti si costruisce spesso attraverso un dialogo tra architetto "madre" e cliente "padre" (Filarete, Wright). A tal riguardo l'autore propone originalmente la definizione di progetto di architettura come "atto estetologico diffuso". Successivamente viene stigmatizzata la differenza tra arte e architettura, evidenziandone la rilevanza rispetto al tema dell'estetica realizzata. L'architettura è infatti legata indissolubilmente al "fare" essendo avverabile solo nella circostanzialità della realtà. La definizione di Loos di architetto come "muratore che sa il latino" è, nel saggio, riletta in questa ottica. Viene inoltre preso in considerazione il ruolo della funzione come elemento del fare estetico. A partire dalle critiche di Rossi e di Rykwert si propone la funzione come perscorso tortuoso verso l'essere dell'opera architettonica; in opposizione quindi al "form follows function". A questo proposito vengono citate le teorie dei protorazionalisti (Lodoli). A tal fine viene fatto riferimento a Gadamer. Infine il saggio delinea le attuali condizioni dello status dell'architettura alla luce della lettura di Husserl, che notoriamente ha delineato "la crisi delle scienze europee". A questo riguardo viene fatto riferimento alle elaborazioni di Dalibor Vesely che ha densamente descritto lo status estetico dell'architettura all'interno del passaggio da un universo metaforico a una condizione strumentale.This essay deals with the theme of "realized aesthetics", focusing on the peculiar way by which it takes place in the case of architecture. Actual "fragments" of the discipline of Aesthetics randomly crop up in the "discourse" on architecture: either as proper theory or as teaching or as client/architect relationship.
Architectural design indeed quite often is born by means of a dialogue between "mother" architect and "father" client (Filarete, Wright). To this respect the author propose the definition of architectural design as "aesthetological diffuse act". In the following part of the essay the difference between art and architecture is stressed in order to better define the architecture as realized aesthetics theme. Architecture is in fact strictly tied to "making" being it possible only under the circumstantiality of reality. Loos's definition of architect as "mason who knows Latin" is reassessed under this light. The notion of function is also treated discussing its role as an element in the making of aesthetics, using Rossi's and Rykwert's critique of a simple idea of "form follows function". Lodoli's ideas as well as Dalibor Vesely's husserlian reading of architecture are discussed il the last part
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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