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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
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
New Land - New Name? About the Name Changes of German Emigrants to North America. Research Overview, New Findings and Suggestions for further Research
Full text linkMillions of Germans have emigrated to North America over the past few centuries. They started a new life, often with a new name. This article focuses on emigrants to the North American region of what is now the United States and asks: When did they change their names? What were the reasons for or against it? Did the linguistic structure of the German name play a role in the change? How can name changes be reconstructed and studied today? This article seeks answers, reviews existing research, presents some new findings, and encourages further research
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Full text linkkoamabayili/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
Die Scrabble-Score-Methode zur Messung sprachlicher Komplexität: Ein Test anhand von 90.000 Rufnamen aus dem SOEP
No full textIn US-amerikanischen Studien verschiedener Disziplinen hat sich zur Analyse der sprachlichen Komplexität von Vornamen seit einigen Jahren die so genannte Scrabble-Score-Analyse etabliert. Wie im bekannten Scrabble-Spiel Wörtern nach bestimmten Regeln Punktewerte zugeordnet werden, wird bei dieser Methode die Punktzahl einzelner Rufnamen ermittelt. Die mit ihrem jeweiligen Scrabblewert versehenen Rufnamen können anschließend auf flexible und quantitative Weise miteinander verglichen und ausgewertet werden. Vorliegende Studie wendet die Scrabble-Score-Methode erstmals auf Rufnamen aus Deutschland an, um zu testen, welche Erkenntnisse über die sprachliche Komplexität von in Deutschland erhobenen Rufnamen möglich sind. Das zu Grunde liegende Rufnamenkorpus setzt sich aus rund 90.000 Rufnamen aus dem SOEP-Datensatz (1984-2016) zusammen. Für jeden einzelnen Namen ist nach den Scrabbleregeln ein Punktewert errechnet und Analysen zu verschiedenen Aspekten durchgeführt worden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass mittels der Scrabble-Score-Methode auch im Deutschen interessante Erkenntnisse über Rufnamen gewonnen werden können. So lässt sich z.B. ermitteln, dass die Buchstabenverteilung im Deutschen für Rufnamen eine andere Gewichtung (mehr Vokale und mehr vokalisch klingende Konsonanten) aufweist als im übrigen deutschen Wortschatz. Ebenso werden geschlechtsspezifische Charakteristika von Frauen- und Männernamen deutlich. Darüber hinaus geben hohe Scrabblewerte Hinweise auf Rufnamen nicht-deutscher Herkunft. Die Scrabble-Score-Methode zeigt damit beispielhaft anhand der drei hier ausgewählten Studienaspekten, dass sie für verschiedene Fragestellungen hinsichtlich der sprachlichen Komplexität der Rufnamengebung in Deutschland produktiv eingesetzt werden kann.For several years, American studies of different disciplines have established the so-called Scrabble score method as a measure of the linguistic complexity of names. This method scores each name according to defined rules, similar to the popular board game Scrabble, in which each word receives a score defined by the sum of the numerical values of their characters. The numerical Scrabble scores allow comparing and analyzing names in flexible and quantitative ways. In this study, we apply the Scrabble score method to given names in Germany for the first time, to test the value of such scores to understanding the linguistic complexity of names in Germany. The corpus for these analyses contains 90.000 given names based on the SOEP data (1984-2016). We calculated the Scrabble score for all given names following the German Scrabble rules and analyzed different aspects. The results demonstrate that it is possible to also gain interesting insights about names in Germany using the Scrabble score method. For instance, we show that the frequencies of letters in given names differs (more vowels, more like vowels sounding consonants) from that in the other lexicon of the German language. Likewise, the method reveals gender-specific characteristics of male and female names. In addition, high Scrabble scores indicate non-German given names. These three aspects of our study on names from the SOEP data illustrate that the Scrabble score method is suitable and productive for different questions about the linguistic complexity of given names in Germany
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