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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
Designing in "constellations": sustaining particpatory desgin for neighborhoods
No full textPublished in: Proceeding PDC '16 Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops - Volume 2, Pages 5-8.Sustaining participation in design is difficult, especially in
neighborhoods that seek change consistent with their cultural
values. Participatory Design offers several approaches (e.g.
infrastructuring) that help to balance the sensibilities of urban
planning with the immediacies of design. This paper
investigates the distinctive value of a “constellation” of
participatory activities that sustained engagement throughout
the design of an urban plaza, combining physical and digital
flows. Based on a three-year collaboration in a historically
black South LA neighborhood, this study analyzes the re-
invention of urban furniture – payphones, bus benches,
newspaper boxes, planters, and public displays – into
community interactions. After reviewing the concrete vision of
this constellation, the City of Los Angeles decided to fund the
implementation of a pedestrian plaza. This paper articulates our
methods of infrastructuring, providing techniques that sustain
participation over time around physical urban objects that
become touch points for fluid groups of designers. More than
any one design, the constellation approach provides a platform
for horizontal iteration, maintaining focus and participation in
imagining a neighborhood’s socio-technical future
Placemaking across platforms: playing to circulate stories in the smart city
No full textPublished in: Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2018 Y. Chisik et al. (Eds.): INTETAIN 2017, LNICST 215, pp. 1–5, 2018.Urban placemaking can deepen the sense of place, including with
novel technologies. Placemaking seeks to revitalize public spaces, attract
investment, and rally stakeholders. How can play help to position residents as
storytellers and circulators of key images tied to local history? This study shows
how play can leverage smart city technologies, including urban furniture and
rebuilt payphones. Game mechanics were selected to gather crowds at local
monuments, generate pictures of the group tied to local mythology, and auto-
matically circulate images online. In contrast to “app” based approaches, the
design facilitated cross-platform “spread” for local storytelling. The study shows
how placemaking can benefit from physical objects and hybrid interfaces to
facilitate the circulation of local placemaking narratives
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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