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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
L’école dans l’œuvre romanesque de Boubacar Boris Diop, écrivain sénégalais
Get PDFCet article est consacré à l'étude du système scolaire sénégalais dans l'œuvre romanesque de Boubacar Boris Diop, auteur contemporain francophone. L'approche proposée est la description de l'évolution de cette école exogène, de ses effets sur la société sénégalaise et des représentations qu'en ont ses acteurs. Dans un premier temps, le roman africain en général est étudié dans sa forme, son contenu, ses rapports avec les transformations sociales générées par le système scolaire, du début du XXe siècle à nos jours. Après quoi, les romans de Boris Diop en particulier sont analysés du point de vue de l'école. Enfin, les résultats obtenus sont confrontés à ceux qui émergent des romans phares de la littérature africaine d'expression française : Camara Laye, Mongo Béti, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, ...This is a study about the Senegalese school system in Boubacar Boris Diop's complete works, a contemporary author of literature in the French language. The approach we suggest is the description of this exogenous school evolution, its effect on the Senegalese society and the way all the parties involved perceive it. In the first place, the African novel in general is studied in its form, its contents, its relationship with the social transformations generated by the school system, from the early beginning of the XXth century to our present days. Then, Boris Diop's novels particularly are analyzed from the school point of view. Finally, the results of our investigation are compared to those that emerge from the influential novels in African literature of French expression: Camara laye..
L’école dans l’œuvre romanesque de Boubacar Boris Diop, écrivain sénégalais
No full textInternational audienceThis is a study about the Senegalese school system in Boubacar Boris Diop's complete works, a contemporary author of literature in the French language. The approach we suggest is the description of this exogenous school evolution, its effect on the Senegalese society and the way all the parties involved perceive it. In the first place, the African novel in general is studied in its form, its contents, its relationship with the social transformations generated by the school system, from the early beginning of the XXth century to our present days. Then, Boris Diop's novels particularly are analyzed from the school point of view. Finally, the results of our investigation are compared to those that emerge from the influential novels in African literature of French expression: Camara laye...Cet article est consacré à l’étude du système scolaire sénégalais dans l’œuvre romanesque de Boubacar Boris Diop, auteur contemporain francophone. L’approche proposée est la description de l’évolution de cette école exogène, de ses effets sur la société sénégalaise et des représentations qu’en ont ses acteurs. Dans un premier temps, le roman africain en général est étudié dans sa forme, son contenu, ses rapports avec les transformations sociales générées par le système scolaire, du début du XXe siècle à nos jours. Après quoi, les romans de Boris Diop en particulier sont analysés du point de vue de l’école. Enfin, les résultats obtenus sont confrontés à ceux qui émergent des romans phares de la littérature africaine d’expression française : Camara Laye, Mongo Béti, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, ..
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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