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A historiographical study and annotated translation of volume 2 of the Afzal al-Tavarikh by Fazil Khuzani al-Isfahani
No full textThis thesis is based on the second volume of Afzal al-Tavarikh, the 17th
century Safavid court chronicle. It consists of a historiographical study of this source
and an annotated translation of the section concerning the early years of Shah
Tahmasp's reign (1524-1529). The author Fazl b. Zayn al-'Abiom b. Rub Allah alKhuzanl
al-I~fahanl was writing his history in 1617-1639 during the reigns of Shah
'Abbas I (r. 1587-1629) and Shah Safi (r. 1629-1642) and devoted the second
volume entirely to the reign of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524-1576).
Chapter one of the thesis deals with the author, his life and career as a
provincial Vazir during the reign of Shah 'Abbas, and his emigration to India. It
identifies the formative influences which shaped the author's distinctive view of
history. One of Fazli's strengths as a historian is his use of histories that are no longer
extant. The sources have therefore been examined in order to assess the influence of
these "lost histories" on his presentation of Shah Tahmasp's early reign.
A/tal al-Taviifikh contains transcriptions of more official documents than are found
in any other Safavid court chronicle. The first chapter therefore underlines the
importance of this source as a depository of chancery documents.
The historiographical evaluation of Aftal proposes that this history is essentially a
product of the reign of Shah <Abbas. It should be viewed as part of Shah 'Abbas'
propaganda campaign, which aimed at strengthening the Safavid Shah's claim to
legitimacy.
Chapter two is a critical evaluation of A/tal al-Tavirfikh. This chapter
examines some of the historiographical issues which were raised in chapter one, in
greater depth. Three case studies have been presented in order to draw attention to
the author's tendency to suppress inconvenient truths and to determine the
ideological basis which underpins the author's historical interpretation. It also
outlines how Fazli's ideological bias determined the structure of his narrative and his
literary style.
Chapter three consists of the partial translation of the text followed by a
commentary. The translation deals with the narrative of the first six years of Shah
Tahmasp's minority to the year 936/1529. Although the inter-tribal factionalism of
the Qizilbash tribes continued to dominate the court politics, 936/1529 signified the
first occasion when the young Shah Tahmasp succeeded in asserting greater personal
political authority at court. This was made possible by the prestige he derived from
his victory at the battle of Jam in 935/1528 against the Uzbeks. This allowed him to
invite the Ustajlii uymaq back to court from exile in Gilan and thus destablise the
hegemony hitherto exercised by their Qizilbash rivals- the Tekkeliis. This
consideration has determined the logical break in the narrative and the translation.
The commentary consists of further historiographical notes, prosopography, and
notes on geography
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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