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    El comportamiento de la inversión en equipo durante la pandemia: el papel de su composición sectorial

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    Artículo de revistaLa crisis del COVID-19 ha tenido un impacto muy heterogéneo entre las distintas ramas productivas de la economía. Las menos afectadas han sido las que requieren menor contacto interpersonal y son menos intensivas en empleo, como la industria. Este hecho habría sido determinante para explicar el dinamismo observado en la inversión en bienes de equipo durante la actual crisis, ya que las ramas con mayor peso relativo en la inversión son las que, en general, han mostrado una mayor resiliencia. Además, el impulso hacia la digitalización y el comercio electrónico, dados los requerimientos de inversión en equipo asociados a su implementación, habrían ayudado a amortiguar la caída de este agregado en la actual crisis. Por otro lado, a diferencia de recesiones anteriores, las condiciones de financiación relativamente favorables habrían contribuido a que este factor no haya supuesto una limitación adicional para afrontar los proyectos de inversión planeados. Por último, también las Administraciones Públicas habrían desempeñado un papel relevante en el sostenimiento de la inversión en bienes de equipo en esta crisis. Por un lado, por el esfuerzo en digitalización que han realizado para continuar prestando servicios en un contexto de restricciones a la movilidad y, por otro, por la adquisición de equipo para hacer frente a la emergencia sanitaria

    The performance of investment in capital goods during the pandemic and the role of its sectoral composition

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    Artículo de revistaThe COVID-19 crisis has had a very uneven impact on the different productive sectors of the economy, with those requiring less personal contact or that are less labour-intensive, such as industry, being the least affected. This appears to have been a determining factor behind the buoyancy observed in investment in capital goods during the current crisis, as the sectors representing a higher relative share of investment are those that, broadly speaking, have been more resilient. The drive towards digitalisation and e-commerce has also helped cushion the fall in this aggregate in the current crisis, as they require investing in the relevant equipment. Furthermore, unlike in previous recessions, the relatively favourable financing conditions have helped prevent this factor from being an additional constraint in tackling planned investment projects. Lastly, general government has also played a key role in sustaining investment in capital goods during this crisis, given the effort required in terms of digitalisation in order to continue providing services in a setting marked by mobility restrictions and the need to acquire equipment to deal with the health emergency

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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
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