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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
Religión y secularización como modos de dominación
Get PDFThis article argues that the usual dichotomy between religion andsecularization becomes illusory when we study it from a Latin American perspective. Rather than opposed terms, both concepts appear as different versions of colonial domination, the latter built—according to the Puerto Rican philosopher Nelson Maldonado-Torres—on a racial line and the logic of the non-ethics of war. In addition, following the Muslim-Spanish thinker Abdennur Prado, we note the epistemological violence involved in projecting the concept of religion to other non-Western regions. Contrary to common sense, religion is not succeeded or replaced by secularization, but both originate andconstitute each other; one and the other are born from a split in Europeansociety, a split that is then extrapolated through these categories to other realities, covering up and domesticating different ways of dwelling in the world. More than renouncing the category of religion, however, we seek to promotea reflective attitude in the use of these categories that we employ both to apprehend the religious phenomenon, and to glimpse a religiosity of liberation beyond coloniality.Este ensayo argumenta que la habitual dicotomía entre religión y secularización deviene ilusoria cuando la estudiamos desde Latinoamérica. Más que oposición, ambos conceptos aparecen como distintas versiones de dominación de la colonialidad, ésta última construida—según el filósofo puertorriqueño Nelson Maldonado-Torres—sobre una línea racial y según la lógica de la no-ética de la guerra. Además, siguiendo al pensador musulmán-español Abdennur Prado, constatamos la violencia epistemológica que conlleva el proyectar el concepto de religión a otras regiones no occidentales. Contrario al sentido común, la religión no es sucedida ni reemplazada por la secularización, sino que ambas se originan y constituyen mutuamente; una y otra nacen de una escisión propia de la sociedad europea, escisión que luego es extrapolada a través de estas categorías a otras realidades, encubriendo y domesticando modos distintos de habitar el mundo. Más que renunciar a la categoría de religión, sin embargo, buscamos promover una actitud reflexiva en el uso de las categorías que empleamos tanto para aprehender el fenómeno religioso, como para atisbar una religiosidad de liberación más allá de la colonialidad
En torno a diferentes usos de la nada: m´ístico, filosófico y político
No full textThis article describes three uses of the concept of nothingness. First, in the field of Christian mysticism, I analyze the treatment of this category by the 13th century Dominican monk Meister Eckhart; then, within the philosophical-political sphere, I study the uses of this notion by the Argentine liberation philosopher Enrique Dussel and the North American poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten. My intention is to investigate possible influences of Christian mysticism’s use of nothingness on the philosophical-political field. I argue that in all three cases there is a dynamic of nothingness that ends with an inversion, in which one passes from the experience of nothingness as a defect or deprivation to nothingness as excess, that is, from the sub-ontological to the trans-ontological. I demonstrate that these three uses of nothing are based on the revenue that this inversion makes possible.Este artículo describe tres usos del concepto de la nada. Primero, en el ámbito de la mística cristiana, analizamos el tratamiento que de esta categoría hace el monje dominico del siglo XIII Meister Eckhart; luego, dentro del ámbito filosófico-político, revisamos los usos que de esta noción hacen el filósofo de la liberación argentino Enrique Dussel y el poeta y teórico cultural norteamericano Fred Moten. Nuestra intención es investigar posibles influencias del empleo de la nada en la mística cristiana sobre el ámbito filosófico-político. Postulamos que en los tres casos se da una dinámica de la nada que concluye con una inversión, en la cual se pasa desde la experiencia de la nada como defecto o privación hacia la nada como exceso, es decir, de lo sub-ontológico a lo trans-ontológico. Consideramos que estos tres usos de la nada están en función del rédito que esta inversión posibilita
La función reveladora de la nada: una interpretación del texto “¿Qué es metafísica?” de Martin Heidegger
No full textBy reading mainly Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?,” the aim of this paper is to illuminate the ontological revelatory function of the nothing that occurs in anxiety. The two parts of this paper describe the same night of anxiety. While the first part shows this night from the point of view of the movement or sweep of anxiety, the second studies this same night from the point of view of the ontological revelatory role of the nothing and its negative logic of disclosure. It is crucial for my analysis to keep apart two different meanings of the nothing. There is the nothing as being’s totally other (nihil negativum), on the one hand, and the nothing as Being, on the other. While with this second meaning one dwells in the realm of the ontological, it is the first meaning-which is the focus of this paper-that secures our access to it.Mediante la lectura principalmente del texto “¿Qué es metafísica?” de Heidegger, el objetivo de este artículo es iluminar la función reveladora ontológica de la nada que ocurre en la angustia. Las dos secciones de este artículo describen la misma noche de la angustia. Mientras que la primera sección muestra esta noche desde el punto de vista del movimiento o vaivén de la angustia, la segunda estudia esta misma noche desde el punto de vista del papel revelador ontológico de la nada y su lógica negativa de desvelamiento. Para nuestro análisis es crucial mantener separados dos sentidos distintos del concepto de nada: por un lado, está la nada como lo totalmente otro con respecto al ente (nihil negativum); y por el otro lado, la nada como Ser. Si bien con este segundo significado uno habita en el ámbito de lo ontológico, es el primer significado, el cual es el tema central de este artículo, el que asegura nuestro acceso a él
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
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