1,720,991 research outputs found
Entrevista a Alvina Briseño
Full text link"Interview with Alvina “BB” Briseño conducted by Dr. Alex Hunt as part of the Oral History Project "Forgotten Frontera."
Entrevista a Alvina “BB” Briseño realizada por Dr. Alex Hunt como parte del Proyecto de Historia Oral "Forgotten Frontera."Center for the Study of the American Wes
Entrevista a Leon Mendoza
No full textInterview with Leon Mendoza conducted by Dr. Alex Hunt as part of the Oral History Project "Forgotten Frontera."
Entrevista a Leon Mendoza realizada por Dr. Alex Huntcomo parte del Proyecto de Historia Oral "Forgotten Frontera."Center for the Study of the American Wes
Book Review: SueEllen Campbell, Alex Hunt, Richard Kerridge, Tom Lynch, and Ellen Wohl, The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture.
No full textBook Review: SueEllen Campbell, Alex Hunt, Richard Kerridge, Tom Lynch, and Ellen Wohl, The Face of the Earth: Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture.  
Thinking a Ranch Backwards: The History of the Barrel and Indian Creek Ranch
No full textThe Barrel and Indian Creek Ranch (BICR), as it exists today, has about 150 years of history as ranching country, but did not always exist in its current form. Instead, the ranch’s history partakes of the larger trend, having been first part of a massive, ill-defined range and then subject to breakups and patchwork ownership over the years. In fact, Barrel and Indian Creek began as part of the great JA Ranch, product of the 1877 partnership between John George Adair and Charles Goodnight. But while we will come to this legendary partnership, we took the approach of moving backward, historically, in tracking the shifting terrain of ownership of what has come to be known as Barrel and Indian Creek Ranch. Therefore, this reverse-history will begin with the contemporary scene.Center for the Study of the American West
This report is the work of Marin Bullock, intern with the Center for the Study of the American West (CSAW), and Alex Hunt, director of CSAW. The report was commissioned by Ashley Watt / Antina Co., who funded the internship in Fall 2022. The report was further developed and completed in spring 2023. Sources include courthouse land records, archival materials, newspaper articles, and interviews. Some information, about early land titles, for example, is lost to time, and some stories included herein may be colored by the imperfections of human memory. However, the report is as complete and accurate as time and resources could allow. This report is presented to Ashely Watt, in current form, on May 27, 2023. Alex Hunt ([email protected]) and/or Marin Bullock may return to this report in the future with the intent of revising for publication
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
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
- …
