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Afriche e orienti
No full textThe journal "afriche e orienti” was established in the spring of 1999 by a group of junior and senior scholars of the association "Afriche e Orienti", and is published by AIEP Editore.
The journal publishes three issues per year, and focuses on Africa, the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East. "Afriche e orienti” addresses a range of topics in the fields of history, politics and development of these regions.
"Afriche e orienti" is committed to publish the most recent and high quality empirical and analytical research from Italian and international scholars.
Articles are published in Italian, English and French.
"Afriche e orienti" operates a double-blind peer review process to evaluate the articles proposed for publication.
"Afriche e orienti" is part of the journals on Africa linked to the European network of African studies AEGIS
Patterns of Mobile Money Adoption among Small Farmers in Kiambu and Machakos Counties, Kenya
No full textMobile money transfers have become the most widespread financial services in SubSaharan Africa. Over the last decade, they have been widely saluted as a ‘pro-poor, developmental’ technology for the financial inclusion and empowerment of millions of unbanked people. Moreover, along the years, several micro-level studies have brought evidence of the positive impacts of mobile money on the livelihoods of rural and agricultural households, especially thanks to the higher in-flow of remittances. On the base of field research carried out in two Kenyan counties, Kiambu and Machakos, this article explores the patterns of adoption among small-scale farming households. In particular, it argues that uneven uptake patterns determine the unequal distribution of the ‘developmental’ impacts of such services – which in turn reinforces old inequalities while producing new ones
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Autorità tradizionali ed estrazione di risorse in Acholiland: un revival della tassazione?
No full textlbeit the resurgence of traditional authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa has been one of the most investigated and debated topics of the last two decades, scant attention has been devoted to the mechanisms through which these organisations fund their activities. In the effort to fill this gap in the literature, this article brings evidence on such institutional dynamics among the acholi of Northern Uganda. In particular, it argues that many acholi clans are nowadays characterised by the presence of funding mechanisms that constitute forms of taxation that seems to be inspired to both the prerogatives of the old colonial chiefs and the contemporary Ugandan state. On the one side, the essay stresses the ‘covert’ nature of such arrangements, as the national legislation formally recognises traditional authorities but prevents them to levy taxes; on the other side, it shows that the same de facto represent a reinvention of the precolonial tributes to chiefs
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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