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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
The Landscapes of Power in Mediterranean Tuscany (c. 750–850)
No full textThe article deals with the structuring and the transformation of landscapes of power in Mediterranean Tuscany at the transition between the Lombards and Carolingians. By using different kind of sources, it reflects upon social stratification, on the dialectic between the elite and central government, and on political ideology and power practices
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
The Sanctuary of The Acropolis of Volterra. A Place of worship through the Centuries
No full textThe contribution aims to illustrate the topographical development of the sanctuary of the acropolis of Volterra in a diachronic vision. The area, the seat of a permanent settlement since the end of the Eneolithic, was chosen at least from the mid-seventh century BC as a representative place where to gather the religious demands of the entire community. The first temenos of the sanctuary dates to this period.
In the second half of the sixth century BC, the sacred area housed a small building richly decorated by artisans from Campania. This is followed by construction of a large temple, probably of the Tuscanic type, in the mid-fifth century BC.
In the late third century BC, the structural layout of the sanctuary underwent a grandiose renovation and expansion project. A new Tuscanic temple provided with a complex of precincts arranged in series on its front replaced the late archaic temple. These open spaces were used for worship operations by devotees, of which numerous testimonies have still been preserved in situ.
The construction of a second temple alongside the previous one but different in size, façade orientation and plan completed the building program in the mid-second century BC. Another small building dedicated to Demeter at the southern end of the plateau scenographically closed the sacred structures' sequence. Subsequently, the sanctuary does not seem to have hosted further constructions. However, the frequentation of devotees continued, without interruption, until the Imperial Age.
The concluding part of the article outlines the devotional practices and the deities venerated in the sanctuary. The temple buildings housed ancestral divinities, such as papa/apa and χia, while a goddess called ati and minor deities connected to the rural landscape received the devotion of the visitors within the precincts sector
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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