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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
Herta Müller — An Author from the Periphery, Implications for the Translation into Czech
Full text linkThis paper will be devoted to the peripheral nature of Herta Müller’s oeuvre. Müller is regarded as a person who created “German-language literature from the cultural periphery of the German linguistic area.” In relation to translation, the article aims to determine what place Czech translations of Müller’s oeuvre occupy in Czech literature compared to German literature. The research also focuses on the issue of embedding
translation in a polysystem that embraces translation as an interrelated system of culture, language, literature, and society
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
O przekładach literatury polskiej w Czechach i czeskiej w Polsce. Komentarz do bibliografii przekładów w 2016 i 2017 roku
Full text linkPresented article is a recapitulation of visible tendencies in both Polish
and Czech publishing markets with regard to publications of literary translations of
Czech literature in Poland and Polish literature in the Czech Republic in 2016 and 2017.
It presents the most important literary translations in each language pair, pointing out
leading publishers and the most active translators in this area. Finally, the author outlines
general paths along which the Polish literature translations in the Czech Republic and
vice versa develop
German compound words as culturally marked word‑formation and their translation into Polish
No full textThis article deals with German compound words as culturally marked word‑formation
units and their translation into Polish, based on the example of the translation of Herta Müller’s
novel Herztier (The Land of Green Plums). Therefore, the author analyses the difficulty of
transferring compound words typical for the synthetic German language into the analytic Polish
language. A particular interest is attached to compound words, which can be regarded as culture‑specific
word‑formation units of German
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
The Role of Afterword in the Czech Translation of Herta Müller’s Herztier
Full text linkThis article deals with the relevance of paratexts in translation based on the example of the afterword in the Czech translation of Herta Müller’s novel Herztier [The Land of Green Plums], titled Srdce bestie and written by Radka Denemarková, a writer and translator famous not only in her homeland. Therefore, he analyses the different functions of the afterword, especially as a commentary on the translator’s choices and, consequently,
as an insight into the worldview inscribed into the original language. A particular interest is paid to the translator who, in view of her literary predispositions that are clearly visible not only in the afterword, could be described as the “second author”
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