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Cosmopolitanism, articulation and the problem of history: Sanskrit in the early Indonesian archipelago
No full textDaud Ali's research originally set out to explore the roles that South Asian political ideas played in the transformation of early Southeast Asian societies. He found difficulty linking language practices and ideologies to state structures and social formations. Ali admits that the relations between cultural practice and society are highly complex and shifting, yet believes that an analytical awareness of such may add new perspectives to the developed theories of linguistics and cultural cosmopolitanism currently circulating commonly in the fields of South and Southeast Asian history. He proceeds to summarize the bodied and ongoing historiographical debates that seek to explain Indic influences on Southeast Asian societies. After, he details his own research on early Indonesian inscriptions to evaluate different forms of localizing political discourse in Sanskrit and their implications for a cosmopolis in Southeast Asia.Originally recorded at Trayes Hall A of the Douglass Campus Center, Rutgers University on March 25, 2011
Royal Eulogy as World History: Rethinking Copper-Plate Inscriptions in Cola India
No full textThe practice of inscribing words onto metal or stone has had a long history in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—a history that has always had complicated relationships with other sorts of textual production. In addition, the reading of these inscriptions has also had a history—at least as long as that of the inscriptions themselves. I stress this because I want to contend that the way scholars read and reproduced inscriptions is today neither self-evident nor timeless
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
Corrigendum to “Building a text collection for Urdu information retrieval”
Full text linkBuilding a text collection for Urdu information retrieval
https://doi.org/10.4218/etrij.2019-0458
ETRI Journal, Volume 43, Issue 5, October 2021, pp. 856–868.
The authors regret that the original authorship list did not include the author Ali Daud.
The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused
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
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