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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
MEANING ACCURACIES AND INACCURACIES IN TITANIC'S INDONESIAN SUBTITLES
Get PDFNowadays, there are more and more chances for movie maniacs to satisfy their great interest to watch over different kinds of film genre every time and everywhere. They can easily get them atVideo rental and watch them at home or go to Cineplex as they wish. From the foreign film screen, they see subtitles. Usually the film audiences watch it without thinking seriously about the accurate or inaccurate subtitles. In fact, subtitle is the key to understand the meaning of the contents in foreign languages. However, it is impossible to deny that film translators are not always professional ones. They sometimes make unnecessary inaccurate meanings in film subtitling as likely found in several foreign movies shown in Indonesia. This article will guide the readership to find out that in such a worldclass and famous movie like Titanic, accuracy and inaccuracy of its subtitles are surprisingly found.Keywords: subtitles, accurate, inaccurate, film audience, contextualmeanin
LEARNING TO SPEAK WITH EFFORTLESS ENGLISH SYSTEM
Get PDFThis article discusses an introduction to the new teaching system in the speaking classroom. This system is known as the Effortless English System. It is a system which relies much on listening activity. In recent years, most English students in schools have been stuck on a grammar-translation method. In practice, the students focus more on grammar rules teaching and translation. The results of this method show no improvement to their speaking skills. They tend to always think and translate before they speak. It obviously prevents them from being fluent and confident when speaking to other English students or to native speakers. On the other hand, Effortless English system teaches the students with fun and interesting stories. The system does not teach grammar rules consciously and analytically, instead it uses mini-story lessons to learn grammar intuitively. The major focus on this system is learning to speak by listening not by speaking. Speaking is optional after one listens to a lot of comprehensible inputs to his/her brain. Forced speaking is not recommended because it may damage final results. Listening to things that are always right will build the language right while saying things that are always wrong will build it wrong. The key to excellent speaking is listen to one thing many times not listen to many things one time. If students follow these rules, they will end up speaking English like a native. Keywords: Effortless English System, Comprehensible Inputs, Forced Speaking, Listening Activit
TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH LITERARY WORKS
Get PDFTo be successful in teaching English as a Foreign Language needs various methods and approaches. One of the methods that can be an alternative is using literary works, such as drama, prose and poetry. They can be valuable resources to teach the language aspects such as vocabularies, pronunciation, and grammar. It can also be used as an effective way to create an engineered real-life situation for learners to practice the language. And in the long run, such a way of teaching English will also create appreciation and enjoyment for the learners
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN AUTISTIC CHILDREN
Get PDFThe term Autism has become popular in Indonesia since the end of 90’s. The suspicious and peculiar cause of autism is stil debatable until today. There are experts who suspect mercury substance of deep water fish to be the main cause of it and some others claim that it is caused by a particular vaccination before a child gets two years old. There are two common symptoms of a child labeled autistic; speech delay and mental retardation. This article describes the ways of an autistic child acquiring his first language in addition to the available theories of language acquisition for children and it also shares the writer’s personal experiences living together with an autistic child of his own.Keywords: Autism, speech delay, mental retardation, languageacquisition, speech therap
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
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