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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
"DIABETOUR'': A DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECT FOR CHILDREN AFFECTED WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS
No full textDiabetour (for Smartphone and Tablet Android) uses Java language and
teaching tutorial approach. Through the game-learning dimension, it creates a
communication channel with the child, his/her real world and health
condition, in a space in which he/she becomes “the real protagonist of his/her
life”. It gently enters in the child emotional sphere, allowing him/her to
express his/her discomforts, so that he/she won’t feel alone facing diabetes.
Diabetour target
This digital story can be used both in hospital setting (target: the new
“digital-native” generation of 3-6 year-old children and their caregivers) and
outside hospital (home, school, friends, sport...), with a formative purpose
for all the diab-community members.
express his/her discomforts, so that he/she won’t feel alone facing diabetes.
Diabetour is a useful tool in the self-management process which leads a preschool age child to become a healthy man/woman in the future.
In the magic dimension of “once upon a time”, children can “escape” from the
heavy and oppressive reality of the disease and give some order to the
emotional chaos they are experiencing, inevitable consequence of diabetes
onset. They learn how to deal with difficulties, rules, daily challenges and
hypoglycemic events .
The digital storytelling is different from common animated cartoons, because
the child can really interact with the story, improving the disease knowledge
and self-management through physical, emotional, intellectual and social
experiences, promoting a positive relationship between the child and the
caregivers
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
I PROBLEMI IN MATEMATICA E IL SOFTWARE DIDATTICO IN SITUAZIONI DI DIFFICOLTA'DI APPRENDIMENTO
No full textUna consolidata esperienza nell’uso del software didattico,
ricerche nazionali e internazionali su problemi legati
all’apprendimento in matematica con allievi disabili e le
indicazioni per il nuovo Curricolo della Scuola dell’obbligo, ci
spingono a rilanciare la questione dell’insegnamento–
apprendimento della matematica e del legame tra i problemi
e il software dedicato. In particolare analizziamo in questo l’intreccio tra l’insegnamento per problemi, il software
didattico e l’apprendimento in classe in presenza di allievi
con disabilità cognitive, attraverso uno studio attento dei due
software “Alla ricerca della Scimmia Bianca” e “Pago Pago”
prodotti dalla cooperativa Anastasis, Bologna
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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