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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
The Meaning of Kant’s Attitude Towards the Technical Instruments of Science in the Atmosphere of Enlightenment
Full text linkI mention the main, technophile and technophobe, positions towards technology in the Western 18th century, as the criterion of this paper. Then I show that, however unexpected would this be, the concept of technics – opening the problem of technics – was explicitly present within the transcendental philosophy. From its multiple meanings outlined in the logic of this philosophy, I focus on the technical instruments of science. Kant considered them optimistically, but insisted that they are only means subordinated to the capability of reason that alone is able to give knowledge. And the vault key of knowledge is the moral law (the moral telos) given by the human reason. Thus, answering to Rousseau, Kant indicates that the progress of knowledge is ultimately determined by this moral, and not by the enrichment of cognisance as a result of technical instruments. If we consider them as a model for the treatment of the technical objects in the broad sense of this term, Kant introduced the criticism of the technophile reductionism, while creating the frame of the positivist science and the humanistic philosophy of the 19th century
The Correspondence: The Order of Heavens and the Order of the Earth
Full text linkThis epistemological paper may be thought of as a joke. Still, its aim is serious enough: to show the meanings of an almost taboo topic taken in its double metaphorical sense, indicated here by capital letters: relations between the Heaven(s) and the Earth. These meanings appear as a result of a “multi-disciplinary” philosophical approach that, far from confusing us, emphasises, first of all, the different criteria of approaching the relationship between the two “types” of order mentioned in the title. These criteria are metaphysical, epistemological, logical, linguistic, and historical. However, after shedding light on the outlooks these criteria open, the meanings, according to their common metaphorical understanding, appear to be more critical
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
BOOK REVIEW: Georges Chapouthier, ‟Kant et le chimpanzé. Essai sur l’être humain, la morale et l’art”, Paris: Belin, 2009
Full text linkThis book, written by a neurobiologist who is also a philosopher, has too many ontological and epistemological significances for not being emphasised in, at least, a review. First of all, it is about the problem of continuity and discontinuity between man and animals. If, for example, Malebranche has revealed that there are common inclinations of these two species (of love, of the good in general, of curiosity, of being and well-being) as well as some special qualities of man (of knowing, of seeming, of being recognised, of imagined social relations) , a contemporary scientist has to explain the basis of these both common and different appearances. And a contemporary philosopher has to interpret the latest scientific information and theories in order to arrive to integrative principles and comprehension
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
„Curat şi bine aranjat, faci din colibă un palat”: broderiile româneşti cu inscripţii pentru bucătărie din prima jumătate a secolului al XX-lea
No full textIn a broad anthropological view, the paper reminds an interesting moment – temporary and ephemeral – in the history of the popular ornamentation in the last century Romania, rather after the First World War and until the 50s: that of the embroideries with inscriptions (samplers) hung on the walls of the kitchen in the homes of the relatively prosperous popular strata – so not of the upper class, and nor of the (very) poor. Not forgetting the epistemological conclusions, the paper describes the embroideries with their motifs and inscriptions and interprets them as specific forms of acculturation following the development of urban civilisation as well as the literacy of women: specific cultural diffusion of a form of material culture borrowed from the German tradition – via Austro-Hungary – and related to the process of modernisation felt at the level of petty-bourgeois urban and rural strata and promoted by women in a lagged-behind East-European country. Thus, the analysis contains the integration of the embroidery work, and especially with inscriptions, in the large European tradition, and reveals the meanings of the inscriptions and the social atmosphere embroidered on these specific aesthetic objects
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