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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
Fusion – locating artistic hybridity in Miles Davis’ ‘Spanish Key’
Get PDFBitches Brew (Columbia, 1969) was possibly Miles Davis’s most provocative change of musical direction.
Existing literature heralds the album as spearheading fusion, an idiom mostly disparaged by academia as a
commercially driven sub-style of jazz offering no creative merit.
Neo-classicists have persistently endorsed an ideology positioning Davis and his followers as destroying hallowed
jazz traditions with bastardised artless commodity. Damaging terms such as imitation and appropriation permeate
their aesthetic hypotheses of fusion’s numerous kaleidoscopic models.
This paper follows a recent trend to re-address the music of fusion, by acknowledging works of those associated
with the movement as creative experiments in hybridity. Focussing on testimony by Davis, an analysis of his
fusion of jazz and flamenco in ‘Spanish Key’, and an adoption of thinking tool philosophies from Per Linell and
Mikhail Bakhtin, a blueprint for artistic hybridization offers a new perspective on the jazz trendsetter’s
experimentalism and for those that followed his lead
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
Fusion: jazz, flamenco, and rethinking aesthetic
Get PDFThis thesis is about the music of the fusion movement (1969-1980). Disparaged by writers and critics who denounced the blending phenomenon as a commercially driven jazz substyle offering no artistic merit, the research presented here argues for the rethinking of its place in current jazz narratives and academic study. I contend that fusion, in addition to the abundance of simplified musical fare, also offered opportunities for musicians to indulge in creative acts of hybridity. In their compositional treatment of multiple musical ingredients, fusion musicians were often accused of appropriating divergent materials to create their blends, resorting to a plundering of a particular style’s superficial qualities in unoriginal acts of imitation. Interpreting the work of three distinctive artists of the period; Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and the multinational group ‘Caldera’, this thesis will highlight the ways in which they challenged this convention. Focussing on their individual handling of Spanish flamenco music within jazz peripheries and other ambiguous hybrid surrounds, the research considers their blends as serious achievements in artistic hybridity. Utilising a diverse collection of periodical sources and biographical materials to position each artist’s creative goals at the time of composition, the individual case studies will also incorporate innovative methodologies and theoretical perspectives in music analysis. The results of these studies will collectively inform an alternative reading to the current devaluing theories concerning the fusion aesthetic. By demonstrating that creative invention, assimilation of stylistic formulae, and innovation in hybridity also permeated the scene, the opportunity for future critical attention, in what is an underexplored niche in jazz studies, will be encouraged by the aesthetic rethinking the thesis implores
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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