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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
Social Innovation and Sustainable Economic Development: Participatory Tourism Destination Management
No full textThe importance of tourism for the Balkan region is growing (World Travel & Tourism Council 2017). Tourist numbers are increasing, and, perhaps given the lack of much promising alternatives, governments embrace tourism as a priority economic develop- ment sector. There is however a substantial gap between governments aiming at tour- ism development, and tourism practices in real life. Tourism is a fragmented sector with many service providers and a dynamic tourism demand. Since tourists organize their travel increasingly by themselves with the support of internet (Nientied & Karafili, 2016) tourism demand also becomes more diverse and ad hoc. The increasingly impor- tant role of internet, the lower fares of airlines, and tourist searching for new destina- tions offer opportunities for the Western Balkan. However, Western Balkan governments have no adequate answers to such developments and for example marketing is rather conventional and destination management is inadequate.
The Albanian government recognizes the importance of tourism as an economic growth sector, yet, its contribution to the GDP is almost insignificant based on the National Institute of Statistics data. The latter may not be a genuine reflection of the real situation for numerous factors, among which informality. According to Medina and Schneider (2018) and Boka and Torluccio (2013), the informal sector in Albania accounts for at least 30% of the GDP. The World Tourism and Travel Council, how- ever, assess that the direct contribution of the sector during 2016 is 7.9%, with a growth rate projection of 5.4% annually (WTTC 2016). Despite contradicting fig- ures, the Government of Albania aims at developing tourism in its broadest sense and to extend the tourism season to span across all four seasons by introducing alternative forms of tourism, such as sightseeing, cultural, culinary, sportive, histori- cal, religious, and adventurous. This would lift the development pressure off the coastal area and shift the focus towards more inland destinations.
The Government’s overall development strategy is the National Draft-Strategy for Tourism 2014–2020. This strategy has two significant flaws. First, 3 years after discus- sion in parliament, it is still a draft policy. Insufficient attention has been given to the strategy after delivering the draft. In the real world, the importance of the policy is lim- ited. Second, the strategy is broad and aims at promoting “everything”. The strategy talks about sustainable tourism, but does not elaborate the concept in practical measures for destination management, environmental management, etc. In practice, it is noted that tourism development is rather uncoordinated, is led by the private sector tourism service providers, and the role of government at local and regional level is limited. A risk is that local governments (and national government too) are eager to get investors and can easily “forget” about sustainability when investors come with a tourism project proposal. Indeed, the current conditions for sustainable tourism in Albania are rather unfavourable. The current tourism policy of the government is inconclusive with regard to sustainable tourism development, the priorities for short-term economic development are high (and much higher than the concern for environment and communities), and local governments are weak in applying regulations. In terms of management and coordination, the culture of working together in partnerships in destinations is weak.
The experience of tourism in the Durres coastal region, close to Albania’s capital Tirana, gives ample reasons for concern. Tourism development along the Durres coast is a typical example of unsustainable tourism as it is seasonal sun-sea-sand tourism, with high environmental costs and congestion. Local governments have issued permits for construction of hotels, and later “discovered” that their actions led to serious reper- cussions, such as higher investments needed in infrastructure. Alternatives for this type of tourism development are needed. There are however only very few best practices on small-scale sustainable tourism in Albania, and no replicable local sustainable tourism models have been designed and promoted. Exactly this issue is taken up in a sustain- able tourism project developed in the Albanian municipality of Gramsh. The concept is to develop an innovation in local scale tourism, based on available resources and with local coordination. The role of an external NGO (non-government organization) is meant to fuel the process during the first 2 years and then develop others sustainable tourism cases. Before discussing the case of Gramsh, attention first turns to a brief discussion of the two key concepts of social innovation and sustainable tourism, and to the methodology of social network analysis, used for the present study
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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