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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
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
Journées doctorales du CETOBaC / CERCEC "Modernités en débat. Perspectives croisées dans les espaces (post-)impériaux russes, soviétiques et ottomans : Europe centrale et orientale, Balkans, Méditerranée orientale, Caucase et Asie Centrale"
No full textInternational audienceWhile modernity is a polysemous and often-criticised term, it remains a key concept in the social sciences to describe economic, political, social and cultural processes from the nineteenth century to the present day. Once used from an evolutionary perspective, modernity both informed and was informed by the construction of nation-states, parliamentary democracies and industrialised economies. The Western-centric conception of modernity has since been heavily criticised. Post- colonial studies argue to decentralize the European trajectory, while transnational perspectives call into question diffusionist models of Western modernity. The merit of these recent epistemic developments lies in their rejection of reifying approaches to modernity. However, they do not make it possible to grasp the conflicts that crystallise around the use of modernity in Russian, Soviet and Ottoman (post-)imperial spaces. The aim of this conference is to explore how the idea of modernity has been produced in situ by past and present actors in the areas under study. By focusing more closely on the way in which the internal dynamics of the geographical and social spaces of interest produce modernity, this conference aims to continue the work undertaken by areal studies on how modernity is conceptualised and actualised
11e Journées d'études de la Halqa des doctorants "Face à la (dé)colonisation : acteurs, luttes et approches du fait colonial dans les espaces à majorité musulmane"
No full textInternational audienceCes journées d’études proposent de discuter de la jeune recherche en cours, des nouvelles sources, matériaux théoriques et empiriques qui contribuent aurenouvellement de la question (dé)coloniale dans les espaces à majorité musulmane en sciences sociales. La colonisation, qui amalgame en réalité des systèmes d’administration (colonies, protectorats, mandats) et des espaces variés, apparaît rétrospectivement comme un processus et un phénomène historique structurant de nombreuses sociétés de l’espace SWANA (Delamard, 2007). Si elle se manifeste sous des formes, spatialités et temporalités en partie spécifique à la trajectoire de chaque pays, elle repose également sur des mécanismes, structures et logiques communes, qui regroupent la notion de « fait colonial » (Platania, 2011 ; Blais, Deprest, Singaravélou, 2011). Celui-ci est compris ici dans une acception large qui inclut à la fois un système politique, juridique et militaire, une organisation sociale hiérarchisée et des rapports de pouvoir ancrés dans l’espace qui dictent, façonnent ou orientent les conduites des acteurs sociaux. Le fait colonial englobe et traverse donc l’ensemble des espaces sur lequel il s’étend. Il s’exprime aussi bien dans le champ (géo)politique et économique que dans la sphère quotidienne, le vécu et l’ordinaire – tant et si bien que la décolonisation ne saurait se réduire aux mobilisations nationalistes émergeant dès la fin du XIXe siècle, ou aux proclamations d’indépendance ayant marqué la seconde moitié du XXe siècle
Journées doctorales du CETOBaC / CERCEC "Modernités en débat. Perspectives croisées dans les espaces (post-)impériaux russes, soviétiques et ottomans : Europe centrale et orientale, Balkans, Méditerranée orientale, Caucase et Asie Centrale"
No full textInternational audienceWhile modernity is a polysemous and often-criticised term, it remains a key concept in the social sciences to describe economic, political, social and cultural processes from the nineteenth century to the present day. Once used from an evolutionary perspective, modernity both informed and was informed by the construction of nation-states, parliamentary democracies and industrialised economies. The Western-centric conception of modernity has since been heavily criticised. Post- colonial studies argue to decentralize the European trajectory, while transnational perspectives call into question diffusionist models of Western modernity. The merit of these recent epistemic developments lies in their rejection of reifying approaches to modernity. However, they do not make it possible to grasp the conflicts that crystallise around the use of modernity in Russian, Soviet and Ottoman (post-)imperial spaces. The aim of this conference is to explore how the idea of modernity has been produced in situ by past and present actors in the areas under study. By focusing more closely on the way in which the internal dynamics of the geographical and social spaces of interest produce modernity, this conference aims to continue the work undertaken by areal studies on how modernity is conceptualised and actualised
Mark J. Sedgwick, Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order, 2024
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