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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
Learning who they ‘really’ are: from stigmatization to opportunities to learn in Greek Romani education
No full textThis chapter explores the learning and life experiences of a vulnerable minority group—the Rom of Greece—in the context of an historical, multidimensional theory of stigmatization. Despite extensive public attention, legal decisions at every level, and the formation of countless working groups and commissions, most Rom across the EU remain mired in poverty and prejudice, a conspicuous component of which is school segregation. The Rom entered Europe through Greece and have lived there for a millennium, always at the margins of society. We examine two cases of social and school exclusion in Greece, and two cases of relative social and educational success, with the purpose of highlighting the difficulties involved in undoing an enduring ethnic stigma. Recent research on the structure and processes of stigmatization provide a framework for understanding how low social status, and poor treatment, of stigmatized populations is maintained and legitimated. The persistent experience of stigma limits opportunities, in often-irreversible social, psychological fashion, for young Rom to learn and prosper
Integration by other means: Hindu schools in the Netherlands
No full textIn this chapter, the authors assess how well, and by what means, Hindu schools try to accomplish the aims of integration in a vernacular that is predicated on voluntary separation. Though Hindu schools are open to non-Hindu children, their primary aim is to educate children of like cultural and religious background.And, like other schools whose instructional design is religiously specific, Hindu schools have faith-building, identity formation and emancipation among their central aims.We will explore the specific cultural and religious components that are used to form the identities of children, and how these are operationalized as emancipatory practices.In particular, we will examine how these features are conceptualized, developed and connected to learning, and how Hindu schools concretely prepare students to negotiate their place in a society in which they are visible minorities.Further, to the extent possible, we will investigate whether the academic outcomes Hindu schools strive for are bearing fruit.<br/
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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