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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
Beyond Words: The Impact of Pragmatic Instruction on Arabic-English Translation Skills
No full textThis study explores the significance of pragmatic competence in translation education among first-year Algerian students majoring in Arabic–English translation. It highlights the difficulties these learners encounter when relying heavily on literal translation strategies that overlook culturally embedded meanings and contextual nuances. Such strategies often result in pragmatic failure, particularly when students transfer communicative norms directly from Arabic into English or vice versa without considering differences in politeness, directness, and social expectations. The research procedure involved a two-phase assessment. Initially, students were asked to translate a set of carefully selected expressions and short situational utterances before receiving any formal instruction in pragmatics. Their translations revealed frequent breakdowns in meaning, especially in rendering speech acts such as requests, refusals, and compliments. The instructional phase then introduced explicit pragmatic principles grounded in Speech Act Theory and Grice\u27s Cooperative Principle. These frameworks were used to explain how meaning extends beyond literal wording and how implicature, politeness strategies, and conversational maxims shape interpretation across cultures. Following explicit instruction, students’ translations were reevaluated. The findings demonstrate statistically significant improvement in their pragmatic performance. Learners showed greater awareness of differences between Arabic politeness conventions and English communicative directness, improved identification of culture-bound speech acts, and enhanced sensitivity to register and levels of formality. They also became more capable of selecting contextually appropriate equivalents rather than mechanically transferring lexical items. The study recommends integrating pragmatic competence into first-year translation curricula through contextualized translation tasks, cross-cultural awareness activities, corpus-based analysis of authentic discourse, and collaborative learning projects that explore pragmatic variation. In Algeria’s multilingual context (Arabic–Berber–French), strengthening pragmatic awareness is essential for improving translation accuracy, intercultural communication, and overall professional competence in language mediation
Male/Female Linguistic Practices and Miscommunication in the Community Of Chlef
No full textMale/female communication is of central importance to many aspects of human life and gender studies, yet it is only in recent years that is has become the focus of systematic scientific investigation. Males and females seem to encounter frequent problems of communication and their conversation typically falls prey to miscommunication. We intend in this research paper to direct a spot line on women and men in canvassing the phenomenon of miscommunication through sociolinguistic lens. The questionnaire in this paper is a number of questions which serve as a direct method of gathering what the significant social actors (men and women in this investigation) think about the misunderstanding that may plague their conversational interactions. The questionnaire is employed to scrutinize if assertiveness and the intention to take control of the conversation do not sit very lightly on women in Chlef (West of Algeria), as this is captured through our rapt listening to the recordings. The respondents\u27 answers are emplyed either to underpin the hypotheses that read for the different cultures of women and men and the social power prescribed to men, or they can serve to reject those explanations propounded to understand male/female miscommunication in the community under study, Chlef
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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