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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
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
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
Lost in legal data visualization? A legal scholar’s view on the ECB dedicated section in EUR-Lex
Full text linkpeer reviewedLegal data visualisation and legal knowledge visualisation are increasingly attracting the attention of the legal community, given their alleged positive impact on legal teaching, access to and understanding of the law by citizens and/or litigants, or the production of new legal products or services (e.g. Stanford Legal Design Lab). On the other hand, very few legal research studies are based on and integrate into their analysis the visualization of legal data, legal information, or of legal knowledge. Even fewer studies examine the impact of these tools on legal research methodology.
Legal scholars are no less skilled and familiar with the use of IT tools, from preparing their lectures (e.g. ppt presentations) to consulting online databases or using expert systems to review articles. Is the lack of interest in legal data visualisation tools an expression of any technological difficulty? To use Friedrich Lachmayer's metaphor, "Legal informatics, which includes the visualisation of legal data, is about building a bridge between law and informatics. But in the design of visualisation tools, informatics scholars expect too much from legal scholars, then the latter give up and the bridge collapses. Or does the problem stem from a specific feature of the law, namely the ontological formalism of legal norms, which would prevent the dissemination of these tools - or render them useless?
Rather than exploring this issue from a theoretical perspective, this study will examine the relevance of legal data visualization tools through the analysis of a concrete case, namely the updating that the present author is to carry out of the "Euro" section, published in the French Répertoire Dalloz. This section, originally written in 2002 by Professor Jean-Victor Louis, analyses the monetary law of the Union. In addition to updating the references to the relevant legal acts and instruments in force, this new version should also highlight changes to the content of the lex monetae and related legislation (protection of banknotes and coins, anti-counterfeiting measures, conversion and rounding procedures, etc.). As part of the updating process, the research methodology will be based on the visualisation tools made available by EUR-lex. The study will therefore examine the extent to which these tools have supported the research and facilitated the identification of new insights. Or, on the contrary, to what extent they proved to be inappropriate or insufficient and, if so, for what reasons
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
Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union
No full textStarting in the 1980s, competitive pressures and the ideology of competitiveness have shaken and transformed traditional models of development, public policy, and governance in Europe.
This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union. It offers an original contribution to the scholarly debates on the current developments and challenges of welfare states, social and economic policies, and forms of governance in the European Union. Bringing together an international team of cutting-edge scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union sheds light on the conceptual richness and policy relevance of these relationships, pointing to important avenues to make the European Union more economically successful and socially fairer.1s
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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