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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
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
SIGAPS indicators : what are the publications' profiles of French healthcare institutions from 2004 to 2014?
No full textLe financement de la recherche des hôpitaux français est, pour une part, basé sur le nombre de publications scientifiques, en prenant aussi en compte la position des auteurs (première, deuxième, troisième, avant-dernière, dernière, liste investigateurs, Autres) et la catégorie du journal (A, B, C, D, E, NC). Le profil et l'évolution des publications des six types d'hôpitaux, centre hospitalo universitaire, centre de lutte contre le cancer, centre hospitalier, établissement à but non lucratif, service de santé des armées, établissement à but lucratif, en fonction de ces indicateurs sont évalués sur une période de 10 ans entre 2004 et 2014. Sur les 192 886 publications analysées, les centres de lutte contre le cancer publient en majorité dans les journaux de catégorie B, la catégorie E étant la plus fréquente pour les autres types d'hôpitaux. Concernant la position des auteurs dans les articles, la première position est la plus fréquente pour les centres hospitalo-universitaires et le service de santé des armées, tandis que c'est la position Autres pour les autres types d'hôpitaux. Les données sur les positions d'auteur indiquent que tous les types d'hôpitaux participent à des projets de recherche. Les centres hospitaliers, les établissements à but non lucratif, les établissements à but lucratif et les centres de lutte contre le cancer collaborent avec d'autres hôpitaux ; le centre de lutte contre le cancer se distinguant en publiant dans des journaux de haute catégorie. Sur la même période, pour les centres hospitalo-universitaires, les moyennes, les coefficients de corrélation de Spearman et les droites de régression de Pearson sont calculés entre les variables suivantes par équivalents temps plein (ETP) médical : nombre de publications, nombre de séjours à l'hôpital, ETP de praticiens hospitalo-universitaires et ETP d'internes. Les moyennes par ETP médical sont 0,73 publications, 235,8 séjours et 0,63 internes. Les corrélations entre ces trois variables deux à deux sont faibles. Les corrélations entre la proportion de praticiens hospitalo-universitaires et le nombre de publications par ETP médical, le nombre d'internes par ETP médical, le nombre de publications dans les catégories A et B, ou le nombre de publications en premier et dernier auteurs sont fortes. Les hôpitaux français participent au développement de la recherche à des niveaux différents bien que leurs profils soient tous différents. Parmi eux, les centres hospitalo-universitaires ont trois missions : la recherche, l'enseignement et le soin. Chacun d'eux présentent des modèles différents en termes d'activités de soins, d'enseignement et de recherche. Aucun n'est au-dessus de la moyenne dans les 3 activités. Neuf hôpitaux assurent au moins 2 des 3 missions avec des scores supérieurs à la moyenneResearch activity funding in French hospitals is partly based on the number of publications, while taking also into account author position (first, second, third, second-to-last, last, investigator list, and Other) and journal category (A being the highest category followed by B, C, D, E, and NC). Over the 2004-2014 decade, the profile and the evolution of publications for the six existing types of hospital, i.e public teaching hospital, cancer centre, public non-teaching hospital, not-for-profit private hospital, military hospital, and for-profit private hospital were analysed. Among a total of 192 886 publications analysed, the most frequent category was B for cancer centres, whereas this was E in the other types. The first position was the most frequent for public teaching hospitals and the military hospital, whereas the Other position was the most frequent for the other types. The author position indicated that all types of hospital are involved in research projects. Public non-teaching hospitals, not-for-profit private hospitals, for-profit private hospitals, and cancer centres collaborated with other institutions; cancer centres were often distinguished by publishing in high-category journals. Over the same period, for the public teaching hospitals, means, Spearman correlation coefficients and Pearson regression lines were calculated between the following variables from 2004 to 2014 per full time equivalent (FTE) physicians: the number of publications, the number of hospital stays, the number of FTE university hospital practitioners, and finally the number of residents. The mean per FTE physicians was 0.73 publications, 235.8 hospital stays, and 0.63 residents. The correlations between these three variables two by two were weak. The correlations between the proportion of university hospital practitioners and number of publications per FTE physicians, number of residents per FTE physicians, AB categories publications per FTE physicians, or first and last authors’ publications per FTE physicians was strong. All French hospitals are involved into research activities but with different patterns. Among them, public teaching hospitals have three missions: research, care and teaching. Each of them had different patterns in term of care, teaching, and research activities. None was above the mean for all these 3 activities. Nine had at least 2 of the 3 missions with above-average score
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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