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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
Éros en la Física de l'Estoïcisme Antic (Per què Crisip pensà en una fel·lació cosmogònica?)
Podeu consultar la versió en castellà a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12091 ; i en anglès a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12092Versió de l'article anteriorment publicat a: Ítaca : quaderns catalans de cultura clàssica. Vol. I, (1985), p. 81-106L'objectiu d'aquest article no és tan sols mostrar el paper que la Física de l¿Estoïcisme Antic atorgà a éros, sinó també desxifrar l'al·legoria eròtica, una fellatio cosmogònica, que Crisip introduí en les seves Cartes Eròtiques. El significat d¿aquesta gosadia intel·lectual esdevé clar quan analitzem els textos d'acord amb la interpretació al·legòrica de textos practicada pels estoics i quan analitzem també l'enodatio nominum del terme stóma
Eros in the Physics of Ancient Stoicism (Why did Chrysippus think of a cosmogonal fellatio?)
Podeu consultar la versió en castellà a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12091 ; i en català a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12090The aim of this article is to show not only what is the role played by eros in the Physics of the Ancient Stoicism but also to discover the meaning of the allegorical fellatio, a cosmogonal fellatio, which was introduced by Chrysippus in his Erotic Letters. The meaning of this intellectual boldness becomes quite clear if the texts are analyzed in accordance with the allegorical interpretation developed by the Stoics and when we also analyze the enodatio nominum of the word stóma
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We 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
We 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
Principles of Provenance (Dagstuhl Seminar 12091)
This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 12091 ``Principles of Provenance''. The term ``provenance'' refers to information about the origin, context, derivation, ownership or history of some artifact. In both art and science, provenance information is crucial for establishing the value of a real-world artifact, guaranteeing for example that the artifact is an original work produced by an important artist, or that a stated scientific conclusion is reproducible. Since it is much easier to copy or alter digital information than it is to copy or alter real-world artifacts, the need for tracking and management of provenance information to testify the value and correctness of digital information has been firmly established in the last few years. As a result, provenance tracking and management has been studied in many settings, ranging from databases, scientific workflows, business process modeling, and security to social networking and the Semantic Web, but with relatively few interaction between these areas. This Dagstuhl seminar has focused on bringing together researchers from the above and other areas to identify the commonalities and differences of dealing with provenance; improve the mutual understanding of these communities; and identify main areas for further foundational provenance research
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