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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
Echoes of Silence: Postcolonial Feminist Voices in Hosseini’s And The Mountains Echoed
Full text linkThis paper examines the silenced yet resonant voices of Afghan women in Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (2013) through the lens of postcolonial feminist theory. By foregrounding both diasporic and localised female experiences, the article interrogates how gendered silence are inscribed, resisted, and reimagined within the novel’s multinational and multigenerational narrative. Drawing on the works of C. T. Mohanty, G. C. Spivak, and D. Kandiyoti, the study explores the interplay between patriarchal structures, cultural memory, and geopolitical displacement. It argues that Hosseini’s portrayal of female characters somehow creates a textured tapestry of various levels of resistance - from silent to rebellious, deferred agency, and challenging dominant monolithic representations of Afghan womanhood
From Immanence to Becoming: Beauvoir, Nietzsche, and the Feminist Monologue in The Patience Stone
Full text linkThe article explores the feminist existentialist dimensions of Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone (2008), situating the unnamed female protagonist’s radical monologue within a broader philosophical lineage that includes Simone de Beauvoir and Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity (2004) and Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1974) the stusy frames the woman’s struggle against immanence and patriarchal silencing as a philosophical revolt. Beauvoir’s humanist existentialism provides a lens for understanding the protagonist’s resistance to passive identity, while Nietzsche’s concept of revaluation of values illuminates her defiant articulation of desire, trauma, and agency. The protagonist’s transformation from passive to self-authoring entity echoes Nietzschean call to transcenf herd morality and affirm the self through creative resistance. By bridging Beauvoir’s ethics with Nietzsche’s radical critique of moral normativity, this study argues that The Patience Stone stages a feminist revolt that is both existential and genealogical - dismantling inherited structures of meaning while forging new modes of becoming. Ultimately, enacts a philosophical drama of voice, vulnerability, and value creation in a context where silence has long been mistaken for virtue
Echoes of Silence: Postcolonial Feminist Voices in Hosseini’s And The Mountains Echoed
Full text linkThis paper examines the silenced yet resonant voices of Afghan women in Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (2013) through the lens of postcolonial feminist theory. Methodologically, the study employs a qualitative textual analysis, conducting a close reading of the novel’s multi-generational narrative. The analysis is systematically guided by a theoretical framework of C. T. Mohanty, G. C. Spivak, and D. Kandiyoti to interrogate how gendered silence is inscribed, resisted, and reimagined within the novel’s multinational and multigenerational frameworks. Drawing on their works, the study explores the interplay between patriarchal structures, cultural memory, and geopolitical displacement. It argues that Hosseini’s portrayal of female characters somehow creates a textured tapestry of various levels of resistance - from silent endurance to rebellious action, and deferred agency, thereby challenging dominant monolithic representations of Afghan womanhood. This study contributes a nuanced framework for reading Afghan female subjectivity as a site of both reassurance and agency. It offers a postcolonial feminist methodology for analysing literary representations that resist reductive victimhood and accentuate complex, situated forms of resistance
From Immanence to Becoming: Beauvoir, Nietzsche, and the Feminist Monologue in The Patience Stone
Full text linkThe article explores the feminist existentialist dimensions of Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone (2008), situating the unnamed female protagonist’s radical monologue within a broader philosophical lineage that includes Simone de Beauvoir and Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity (2004) and Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1974), the study frames the woman’s struggle against immanence and patriarchal silencing as a philosophical revolt. Beauvoir’s humanist existentialism provides a lens for understanding the protagonist’s resistance to passive identity, while Nietzsche’s concept of revaluation of values illuminates her defiant articulation of desire, trauma, and agency. The protagonist’s transformation from passive to self-authoring entity echoes Nietzsche's call to transcend herd morality and affirm the self through creative resistance. By bridging Beauvoir’s ethics with Nietzsche’s radical critique of moral normativity, this study argues that The Patience Stone stages a feminist revolt that is both existential and genealogical - dismantling inherited structures of meaning while forging new modes of becoming. Ultimately, enacts a philosophical drama of voice, vulnerability, and value creation in a context where silence has long been mistaken for virtue
Echoes of Silence: Postcolonial Feminist Voices in Hosseini’s And The Mountains Echoed
Full text linkThis paper examines the silenced yet resonant voices of Afghan women in Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (2013) through the lens of postcolonial feminist theory. By foregrounding both diasporic and localised female experiences, the article interrogates how gendered silence are inscribed, resisted, and reimagined within the novel’s multinational and multigenerational narrative. Drawing on the works of C. T. Mohanty, G. C. Spivak, and D. Kandiyoti, the study explores the interplay between patriarchal structures, cultural memory, and geopolitical displacement. It argues that Hosseini’s portrayal of female characters somehow creates a textured tapestry of various levels of resistance - from silent to rebellious, deferred agency, and challenging dominant monolithic representations of Afghan womanhood
From Immanence to Becoming: Beauvoir, Nietzsche, and the Feminist Monologue in The Patience Stone
Full text linkThe article explores the feminist existentialist dimensions of Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone (2008), situating the unnamed female protagonist’s radical monologue within a broader philosophical lineage that includes Simone de Beauvoir and Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity (2004) and Nietzsche’s The Gay Science (1974) the stusy frames the woman’s struggle against immanence and patriarchal silencing as a philosophical revolt. Beauvoir’s humanist existentialism provides a lens for understanding the protagonist’s resistance to passive identity, while Nietzsche’s concept of revaluation of values illuminates her defiant articulation of desire, trauma, and agency. The protagonist’s transformation from passive to self-authoring entity echoes Nietzschean call to transcenf herd morality and affirm the self through creative resistance. By bridging Beauvoir’s ethics with Nietzsche’s radical critique of moral normativity, this study argues that The Patience Stone stages a feminist revolt that is both existential and genealogical - dismantling inherited structures of meaning while forging new modes of becoming. Ultimately, enacts a philosophical drama of voice, vulnerability, and value creation in a context where silence has long been mistaken for virtue
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