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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 intruder in modern drama
No full textThis study deals with a prevalent modern Western character: the intruder. As the term suggests, this character interferes, interlopes, trespasses. He explicitly violates or penetrates another\u27s private sphere, be this physical, emotional, or intellectual, and he consequently becomes involved with the person or persons upon whom or upon whose property he intrudes. This involvement is voluntary on the part of the intruder, although sometimes more accidental than it is premeditated, and it is always involuntary on the part of those, whom, for want of a better term, I shall refer to, as the “intruded upon.” “Intrusion,” indeed, seems usually to be closely associated with the use of force and violence, often with an act of aggression. “Intrude,” “intruder,” “intrusion”–act, actor, and action–it will be noted, are inherently dramatic, for they all connote action, conflict, inter-personal involvement, and change.
The intruder studied here is an outsider and a stranger. He is not known to the characters who constitute what might be called the dramatic community of a play. In most cases the origin of the “intruder” is equally unknown or obscure. In some cases, he can not even be defined in terms of his social status; he does not seem to belong to any social group, nor does he seem to practice a profession or a specific trade. Other intruders, however, can be socially identified, and others again, finally, were known to the community or individual members thereof at one particular time in the past, but under different circumstances and in different capacities.
Thus, in one way or another, the “intruder” is a newcomer: he appears suddenly on stage, seemingly from nowhere, unknown to the other participants of the drama; he thrusts himself upon them without permission or welcome and upsets the dramatic status quo. The intruder may become the center of the play, the protagonist who drives the dramatic action forward, or he may remain a secondary figure whose function is only to serve as a catalyst to bring out the inherent conflict and differences within the dramatic community upon whom he has intruded. In any case the intruder is responsible for the drama. Without him there would be no conflict or, at least, no open conflict. The importance of the intruder figure then lies not only in his own inherent qualities as a dramatic character, but also in his function in the framework of relations existing among the other characters. For the interpretation of the “intruder” it is thus imperative to analyze the intruder himself and his relation to the other dramatic figures involved in the action
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
XXX. Deutscher Orientalistentag : Orientalistik im 21. Jahrhundert : welche Vergangenheit, welche Zukunft : Freiburg, 24.-28. September 2007 : ausgewählte Vorträge / von Brunner, Rainer / Europeans' betrayal or ignorance of the other's achievements? : the influence of Ibn Tufayl on modern western thought
No full textSamar Atta
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