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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
Diaspora and Transnational Identities: Table talk construction of Syrian-American identities in times of civil war
No full textThis research addresses the chaotic violence plaguing Syria, which has culminated from past violence and oppression, and the war’s affect on the transnational identities of married first-generation Syrian-Americans living in America. As Bradatan et al. note, transnational identity is fitting for the postmodern idea of fluid identity that attempts to avoid the assumption that belonging to one group implies exclusion from other groups; as a result, the transnational individual embodies the split between state-imposed identity and personal identity, which is caused by political upheavals and propagates migration. By interviewing first-generation Syrian-American spouses, insight on the liminality between Western media coverage and Syrian legendry has been revealed through the participants’ dynamic, multimodal acculturation of the English and Western media with the Arabic and Syrian legendry. The objective was that the participants frame the discourse with their respective spouses so that acculturation and code-switching came about naturally within their kitchen table conversation. This approach was intended to give support to the Syrians affected, by giving them the authority to frame and develop the discourse with one another within their homes. I followed a discourse-historical approach in analyzing the data provided by the participants, and this data shaped the historical background and further analyses.
Delusory Decolonization in a Syrian-American\u27s Mind
No full textIf decolonization is “the replacing of a certain ‘species’ of men by another ‘species’ of men," what then is the difference between the natures of colonization and decolonization? Beyond nomenclature, there is no essential difference. Fanon describes decolonization as an unintelligible process in history: "Decolonization is the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature, which in fact owe their originality to that sort of substantification which results from and is nourished by the situation in the colonies." The key to understanding the implicit duality in Fanon’s remark is the subtle use of the possessive pronoun “their.” Before, during, and after de-/colonization, the opposing parties gain identity and strength by setting themselves off against the other, which implies identity is not the cause, but the effect following this binarised interaction. All identities, discourses, and procedures of power are too easily produced, fortified, and applied for the cost of the antithetical identity
Syria
No full textWritten poems, legislative policies, and on-line posts are experiments to be tested and digested by computers and peoples. This essay is an experiment testing the nature of another experiment, Syri
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
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