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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
The Waste of Time
No full textIn this chapter, we use archaeology to introduce a new dimension to perceptions of waste that draws also from soil science and environmental engineering. We start by connecting our view with generally accepted concepts of waste. We then expand on our perspective and discuss potential implications for the disciplinary imperatives of both archaeology and soil science, and for common assumptions about dirt and soil. Finally, we present the interim results of experimentation with a model, known as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (European Commission 2010; European Environment Agency 1998; Finnveden et al. 2009; ISO 2006a, 2006b). LCA is a tool employed in modern assessments of potential environmental impact, from bio- and renewable energy (e.g., Cherubini and Strømman 2011; Pehnt 2006; Sander and Murthy 2010) to construction (Vilches et al. 2017) to landfill (Nielson and Hauschild 1998, 158). In our case, the archaeological site, along with its dark soils and vegetation, represents the end-result or impact, and our interest is in reconstructing what led to the impact. Our initial aim is to use the data recovered on the origins and constituents of past deposits to understand the processes of site formation, because the “site” as we know it today is defined by the impact of past discard behaviours. Our ultimate goal is to be able to contribute to the management of modern buried waste as well as the management of human burial by contextualising decay processes in “archaeological” or long-term timeframes. Internalising the significance of this long-term context will require changes in social and cultural attitudes. In addition, taking such changes on board highlights the fact that the management of waste is an ecological problem rather than simply a soil or engineering one
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
Problems without solutions : teaching theory and the politics of hope
No full text‘[J]ust as all social life is theoretical’, says Terry Eagleton, ‘so all theory is a real social practice’ (Eagleton, 1990, p. 24). The practice that interests me here is the teaching of theory to undergraduates. In particular, I will be discussing how different ways of organizing the curriculum or of ‘doing theory’ can have impacts of both an intellectual and an affective nature. My focus is on the interplay of two contexts—one intellectual, the other institutional and practical. These are the rise of transdisciplinarity and the current troubled state of Australian universities. I will be considering how their interrelationship influences the way we approach and structure the teaching of theory to undergraduates. In particular, I’m raising the question of pluralism and its discontents. It is the inseparability of the intellectual and the affective that especially interests me, and so I will be discussing the impact of our teaching strategies and curriculum structure not only on intellectual rigour but also, more idiosyncratically, on hope and joy. Hope and joy are, I feel, potentially an embarrassment to Cultural Studies. I haven’t been able to find much on them within the Cultural Studies canon—fear, yes; desire, certainly; jouissance, mais oui—but joy or hope, no. Hope does make an occasional appearance (for example in Henry Giroux’s work on critical pedagogies) but it is more at home in the philosophy of education, or in psychology, religious studies, or the self-help shelves.2 Hope has, however, been an ongoing if unscholarly preoccupation of mine for some time, and this post-electoral climate seems as appropriate a time as any other to try to clarify my own thinking about hope and, for that matter, despair. Indeed, what I will be euphemistically referring to as the ‘current university climate’ is the insistent backdrop to these ruminations—for it is this context that structures the kinds of theory we can do, and that is obliging us, both productively and unproductively, to keep reconsidering our teaching strategies. My paper is, then, an exploration of some of the problems (practical, intellectual, political and ethical) of teaching theory to undergraduates
In the raw : 'home-made' porn and reality genres
No full textThis paper is an exploration of the growing taste for amateur or "reality" pornography, situating it within the larger context of the rise of reality genres more generally. It sees such a preference as one possible response to the onslaught of images of perfection and the cult of the body beautiful, and thus as a mode of resistance to consumer culture. A "taste for the ordinary" must be understood not only as an erotic preference but also as a part of complex shifts in the very idea of ordinariness. This paper draws on interviews with people working in the image industries, including a maker of homemade porn, to explore the paradoxes of this interest in the mundane
Out of Time
Get PDFA review of Sarah Sharma, In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2014)
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