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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Ships, guns and money : the logistics of revolution and Garibaldi’s campaign of 1860
No full textPublished online: 29 November 2024When Giuseppe Garibaldi set sail for Sicily on the campaign that led to the unification of Italy in 1860, he gave a group of exiled political radicals living in the port city of Genoa the task of procuring weapons, equipment and reinforcements for his expedition. These exiled veterans of the 1848 revolutions quickly developed a fluid yet highly integrated fundraising and procurement organization that provided Garibaldi with the means for success. To do this, they leveraged decades of experience as clandestine transnational organizers, but also relied on the business and professional expertise and contacts they had accrued during a commercial and industrial boom in Genoa in the 1850s. Crucially, they took advantage of logistical innovations like steam travel to concentrate people and equipment where and when they needed them and guarantee a positive outcome for their revolution. They also successfully negotiated with trans-imperial power brokers and navigated jurisdictional gaps in the waters of the Mediterranean. These former 48ers used their experiences as exiles and businessmen to challenge the conservative status quo of the 1850s and force the creation of a united Italy. A focus on the material underpinning of their success restores their role in transforming nineteenth-century Europe.The article is a revised version of chapter 1 and 2 of the author’s EUI PhD thesis, 202
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 floating revolution : radical mobilities, organisation and practices in the western Mediterranean, 1850-1874
No full textDefence date: 27 September 2024Examining Board: Prof. Lucy Riall (European University Intitute, Supervisor); Prof. Pieter M. Judson (European University Institute); Prof. Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary University of London); Prof. Jeanne Moisand (Université Paris Nanterre)The aim of this dissertation is to show how a heterogeneous and transnational revolutionary political culture had a profound impact on the evolution of states and polities in the western Mediterranean in the quarter-century following the 1848 revolutions. It focuses on events in the Italian Peninsula, southern France, Spain, and Algeria to argue that political radicals acting in these areas saw themselves as part of a transnational community, that the interconnected maritime world of the Mediterranean influenced the trajectory of their political projects, and that they had a significant impact on the political evolution of the areas they operated in. To bring out the significance of the radicals’ actions, the dissertation follows them across the sea to examine specific moments and processes in which they sought to shape new worlds for themselves. These include attempts to foment a large-scale insurrection in the Italian Peninsula in 1857, the logistics that underpinned Giuseppe Garibaldi’s campaign in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 1860, the preparation and fallout from the so-called “Glorious” Revolution in Cadiz in 1868, the aftermath of the collapse of the French Second Empire in Marseille and Algiers in 1870- 1871, and political life in Barcelona in the early days of the Spanish First Republic. I connect these moments to each other, to their transnational Mediterranean context, and to the wider consequences they had for the radicals themselves and for the political structures they impacted. The multifaceted experiences of political radicalism in the western Mediterranean offer further proof that the Age of Revolutions continued here well beyond its traditional cut-off point in 1848-49. Ultimately, my thesis brings together into a common narrative the heavily nationalised histories of these nineteenth-century radicalisms, while also stressing their significance for processes of state-building, colonialism, and economic globalisation.Chapter 1 'Building the floating revolution: Livorno, Genoa, Sapri, 1857' and chapter 2 'Ships, guns and money: the logistics of revolution and Garibaldi’s campaign of 1860' of the PhD thesis were publisehd as an article 'Ships, guns and money: the logistics of revolution and Garibaldi’s campaign of 1860' (2024) in the journal 'Past & Present
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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