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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
Videogiochi e apprendimento della storia: indagine sulle relazioni
No full textQuesto lavoro mira a comprendere se i videogiochi possano essere un buono strumento per l'apprendimento della storia. Si compone di una parte compilativa sulla materia e dell'analisi delle risposte raccolte tramite un sondaggio appositamente predisposto.
This works aims to understand if videogames can be an useful instrument for history learning. It consists of a compilation part on the subject and of an analysis of the responses collected through a survey
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
La ricerca sulle ultime lettere della Resistenza dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi
No full textUltime lettere di condannati a morte e di deportati della Resistenza italiana database is a no longer very recent tool, yet of great vitality and usefulness, as evidenced by the sporadic but constant additions of documents, access statistics and feedback from the public, often of non-specialists. The project stems from the book (and the related research) Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza italiana, published in the 1950s and edited by Piero Malvezzi and Giovanni Pirelli, but benefits from the new context of both technology and culture in the 2000s. This article, starting with a brief examination of the nature and contexts of production of such epistolary, aims to analyse these important differences and their consequences in terms of outcomes. Primarily, the database made it possible to trace more accurately the origin of the documents. But, above all, it has allowed to reconstruct more faithfully the texts (not infrequently subject to omissions or alteration at the transcription stage) and to add important ‘context’ information (such as writing supports or the way of writing and occupying the spaces on the sheet) in the frequent cases in which it has been possible to recover the autograph originals of the letters. This article will also highlight some of the evidence that the database has made possible through the inclusion of search filters and a form for searching for words and expressions in the text of the messages
Pietre nella Rete. Un nuovo format di memoriale virtuale per i caduti della Prima Guerra Mondiale [poster]
Full text linkUna regione, l’Emilia-Romagna;
14 comuni, appartenenti a 5 province
(PC; RE; MO; BO; FC); 100 anni
dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale; oltre
2.000 caduti. Sono questi gli elementi
fondamentali che compongono Pietre
nella Rete (www.pietrenellarete.it),
un database anagrafico pensato per
raccogliere e raccontare in modo
nuovo le storie e le memorie legate ai
caduti della prima della Prima Guerra
Mondiale, e per ridare centralità ai
tanti monumenti ancora presenti sul
territorio ma molto spesso ignorati
o sconosciuti
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
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