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A Realsitic Scepticism: Raymond Aron's Perspective on the European Construction
Full text linkDal inizi del processo di integrazione europea R. Aron ha meditato sulla costruzione europea. L'articolo analizza attitudine di Aron alla luce di alcune interpretazioni contemporanee, sostenendo che l'approccio areniamo si distingue dal nazionalismo di de Gaulle ma anche dal federalismo di Monnet
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
How «personal» is the «personal Health Record»? Technology and patient empowerment in the care of Diabetes
Full text linkThis paper explores the role and meaning of medical information against the backdrop of new digital tools that allow for new forms of data management and sharing within the healthcare management network. The research investigates data management practices by parents of children with Type 1 diabetes as they are enabled by a Personal Health Record to become stewards of their own medical information. The underlying assumption of this and similar technologies is that they would support patient-provided collaboration and reduce the information gap between clinical encounters. Drawing on a qualitative research design, the authors analyze data management and sharing practices among patients and healthcare providers before and after the introduction of a digital logbook for diabetes management in the pediatric department of a hospital in northern Italy. The paper reveals how patients interpreted their new roles in terms of restricting access to their information, rather than facilitating its dissemination, to preserve their own competence and independent management of the information regarding their ≪PersonalGt; diseases
“Your Mother Has Been on the Street for Too Long... That's Why You Were Born”: Gender Stereotypes and Gendered Slurs in Cyberbullying Role Playing,
No full textLow-intensity epistemic war Medical communities and the development of legitimate knowledge in times of radical uncertainty
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to investigate
knowledge-making practices and associated epistemic conflicts. In addition to
the conflict between the scientific community and social groups that opposed
controversial positions, we argue that the pandemic has been the backdrop
of a less visible ‘epistemic war’ within the medical field, as the radical uncertainty
paved the way to challenge the postulated universality of the hierarchy
of evidence underlying Evidence-Based Medicine. Given this background, the
study focused on the emergence of several physicians’ networks providing
home treatment in the early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Italy. Such
communities of practices produced and shared knowledge and, in some cases,
sought external legitimacy from the scientific community, policymakers
and public opinion, thus acting as an epistemic community and coming into
conflict with dominant epistemic agencies. In this ‘low-intensity epistemic war’,
disputants intended to reaffirm or challenge the balance between the parties
and not to annihilate the other side. By focusing on different epistemologies
and practices in contemporary medicine, this study offers a more articulated
and nuanced framework in which the claim of what is ‘true’ is shaped in a
broader set of professional relations, ongoing scientific debates, and epistemic
and political institutions
Rendere visibile il cyberbullismo. La roleplaying simulation online come metodo per studiare le interazioni prevaricanti in rete
No full textVariations 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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