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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
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Performing the Author-Translator Across Shores: Japanese Refractions of World and Latin American Literature in the 20th Century
No full textThis dissertation intervenes in current scholarly debates surrounding East-West literary exchanges and the role that Western literary and academic cultural networks play in the mediation of transcultural literary relationships between the Global South and non-Western cultural spaces. It does so by analyzing the translations and intertextualizations of Japanese literature in Latin American literature during the 20th century, and vice versa.
The critical argument of my project is centered on the figure that I have termed the “author-translator,” writers whose work in translation occurs not in parallel to professional or academic careers, but in direct relation with their endeavors as creators of works of literature. Author-translators approach the task of translation with a different set of considerations, expectations, and goals than those of a different ilk. My contention is that by treating such translators as a distinct category, and by then using the Japanese and Latin American examples of this phenomenon as a case study, we can shed light on the larger processes of literary circulation and world literature canon-formation in contemporary global literature.
The Introduction provides a substantial account of how Latin American literature was read in Japan during the 20th century, while also establishing the theoretical framework of the dissertation in regard to translation studies, postcolonialism, and world literature studies, the three vectors on whose intersection this dissertation lies. Chapter 1 analyzes Mexican poet Octavio Paz’s early stays in India and Japan, and his translation of Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the North (1st ed. 1952, 2nd ed.1970). Chapter 2 discusses how Borges has been read in Japan since the 1950s up to the present day, but also pays special attention to Borges’s own transculturation of Japanese literary themes in the form of his tanka, haiku, and short fiction, and how these have been translated into Japanese. Chapter 3 analyzes Terayama Shūji’s 1980s adaptations—first for the stage and later for film—of García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Chapter 4 proceeds to the 1990s, tracing Murakami Haruki’s career as an influential translator of American literature in Japan before analyzing his 1992 travel narrative to Mexico, included in his 1998 travel book Distant Frontier, Close Frontier
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
Lillian L. Lambert, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur
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Letter to Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 10, 1948
No full textA handwritten letter from an unknown author addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 10, 1948. Within, the author discusses the Pennsylvania Dutch word for Ash Wednesday, along with traditions associated with this day.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1118/thumbnail.jp
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Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Offprint Collection
No full textThe scholarly library of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. compiled in the course of his Editorship of the journal Nestor (founded in 1957). The collection includes scholarly publications (offprints) and manuscripts sent by prospective authors to Dr. Bennett. Includes a Finding Aid (PDF and Word) and Catalog (an Excel document for each of two record groups: offprints collected up to 1995, and offprints collected from 1995-2011). Both the Finding Aid and Catalog are provided to facilitate researchers' searches for offprints by author, title, journal, year, and subject.Classic
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