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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
Influence of soil-structure interaction on the site-specific seismic demand to masonry towers
No full textJoint analysis of hazard and fragility is becoming a widespread and unavoidable tool to estimate losses caused by earthquakes. The application of such analysis to buildings on soft soil is improved when the dynamic soil - foundation - structure interaction is considered, since both the reference hazard on site and the structural performance are modified by soil compliance. This study investigates and compares the site-specific seismic demand required to squat or slender masonry towers settled on stiff or soft soil. To this aim, 96 non-linear dynamic analyses were performed on 3D models, including soil, foundation and structure and excited by fourteen unscaled records of real earthquakes. Distributions of the equivalent bending rotation of structure and of peak and residual rotations of foundation were calibrated on numerical results and convoluted with the hazard curves of three Italian cities, to compute the mean annual rate of exceeding different values of structural and foundation demand. The resulting curves highlight that soil deformability enhances the bending demand and produces a not negligible permanent tilt in towers
Città di quartieri: per una dimensione urbana dell’abitare / City of neighborhoods: for a urban dimension of dwelling
No full textIl contributo si focalizza sui principi da mettere in campo per individuare nuovi strumenti e strategie, a livello teorico e pratico, per migliorare la qualità dell’abitare e, se possibile, provare a fornire possibili risposte sulle complesse relazioni tra modi di abitare, usi dello spazio domestico e costruzione - o ricostruzione - della dimensione urbana del quartiere residenziale pubblico
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
Le aree di studio. Stato di fatto / The intervention areas. Current situation
No full textIl contributo illustra un’investigazione condotta sui dodici quartieri residenziali pubblici della città di Avellino, compiuta inizialmente attraverso un’operazione di
ridisegno critico degli spazi dei quartieri nella loro attuale condizione e successivamente mediante un insieme di letture interpretative dei caratteri qualitativi e quantitativi di edifici e spazi aperti. Essa ha costituito il punto di avvio di un processo di ripensamento globale del progetto del quartiere residenziale di iniziativa pubblica, in una prospettiva utile a ricomporne le condizioni di abitabilità e tesa a dare forma a nuovi insediamenti maggiormente integrati alla città al contorno, più sicuri, permeabili ed accessibili
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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