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Gratta e lavora : la roulette dei diritti nel mercato del lavoro italiano
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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
Making a Brotherhood: Young Ultras Beyond the Match
No full textIn Italian, the term ‘ultras’ is used to identify fans—usually, but not exclusively, football fans—who go to great lengths to support their teams, following them constantly throughout the season, showing their support through spectacular performances during matches, and sometimes engaging in fights with other teams’ supporters. In Italy, the ultras phenomenon emerged during the 1970s when young people created the first groups all over the country. Initially, young people began to attend matches sitting in the popular stadium section behind the goal (in Italian: curva) as clubs started to offer these seats at a discounted ticket price. This spatial concentration led to the emergence of a specific style and code of conduct, according to which the ultras phenomenon can be defined as a proper subculture (Marchi 2015; Doidge, Kossakowski, and Mintert 2020).
Largely—when not exclusively—composed of young men, ultras communities have been defined from their very beginning as youth subcultures (Dal Lago and Lanfranchi, 1997; Dal Lago and De Biasi 1994) and unbreakable ‘male preserves’ (Elias and Dunning 1986). Although recognised, ultras’ youthful and masculine nature has, however, been largely treated as a taken-for-granted characteristic. Research has paid great attention to ultras’ rituals and violent behaviours during the matches, but surprisingly few attempts have been made to explain how ultras groups and ultras’ collective behaviours emerge from the ‘everydayness’ of being young and/or of being male. Overlooking the ‘insurmountable nature of the everyday substrate’ (Maffesoli 1996: 13), many existing studies have portrayed young ultras as ‘creatures who— like zombies—come back to life only on Sundays’ and analysed the ultras phenomenon only by looking at the extraordinary moments of the match. Such a perspective fails to consider the ‘the ‘informal underground centrality’ (Maffesoli 1996: 4) on which these youth collectivities are built and which assures their existence and permanence beyond the match.
Drawing on qualitative research conducted through ethnography and biographical interviews with the young male members of an Italian ultras group, the present study asks what kind of collectivity young ultras forge when they are together and how this collectivity emerges beyond the match. Analysing a series of ‘rituals of interaction’ (Collins 2004) which are embedded in the young male ultras’ everyday lives, the study shows how the acute sense of togetherness constituting ultras collectivity develops through the ‘trivial vectors’ (Maffesoli 1996: 24) of everyday sociality
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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