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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
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 dramaturgical pattern of public space, the use of ''as if'' space in Vali' Asr Mosque
No full textArchitecture and urban culture in Tehran in the twentieth century
No full textThis study presents elements and aspects of the architecture and urban culture of Tehran during the late Pahlavi era. We are looking into the process of modernization. These radical changes were imposed on the spatial and cultural spheres of Tehran during the Twentieth century. We will distinguish between modernity as a socio-political project in the West, and the Pahlavi regime’s modernization programs aimed at renewing and developing the country
Kamran Diba : 'modern' architecture in Tehran in The Sixties
No full textIran entered the twentieth century with oxen and wooden plough, and left it with steel mills, after a century of dramatic transformation promoted by the central government. The ‘White Revolution’ during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was particularly important in this respect. The Shah proclaimed that ‘from 1963 we set our people upon the road of common sense and progress, toward the Great Civilization, an effort towards understanding and peace which creates the perfect environment in which everyone can work.’ Industrialization and economical modernization clashed with a traditional society. However, the regime did introduce a mitigated modernism, but used a smart labor division between the Shah, who himself incarnated more traditional values and authority combined with the choice for economical and industrial progress, and Queen Farah Pahlavi, who intervened in a progressive way in the cultural domain. She supported some Iranian architects such as Kamran Diba, a native Iranian architect and planner who graduated from Harvard University both in architecture and sociology, who was then able to realize a few remarkable projects. Designing architecture is, however, always more than realizing buildings. It is also about defining space, and producing social space. Indeed, ‘the production of things in space’ – as Lefebvre wrote – always gives way to ‘the production of space.’ Iran has dealt with modernization by strictly separating the private and the public sphere: by holding up a ‘modern outlook’ and being ‘modern’ in public – being a developed and civilized country on the outside, in the economical and industrial realms - but without integrating the values of modernity, such as individual freedom and public discussion. There has been, however, some opposition
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