4,249 research outputs found
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
FIGURE 1 in Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814-1865): malacological author and publisher
No full textFIGURE 1. Lithograph portrait of Lovell Reeve by T. H. Maguire, dated 1849. Reproduction courtesy of the Ewell Sale Library, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.Published as part of Petit, Richard E., 2007, Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814-1865): malacological author and publisher, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 1648 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1648.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/510392
Computer education of chemists
No full textRichard H. Heist ( with H. Saltsburg and T. Olsen) is a contributing author, The Microcomputer in the Undergraduate Laboratory , Chapter 8.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/engineering-books/1045/thumbnail.jp
Richard T. Carson: Contingent valuation: a comprehensive bibliography and history
No full textFor those of us who have been involved in willingness to pay studies for some time, Contingent Valuation: A comprehensive bibliography and history by Richard Carson is a fascinating read, tracking the early development of the method and debates around it from an insider’s perspective. As someone who has not only been involved in contingent valuation research over many years, but who has also been instrumental in shaping it, Richard Carson is the ideal author of this carefully crafted book
We other Chaucerians: diverse perspectives in adaptations of the Canterbury Tales
No full textIn an examination of modern adaptations of Chaucer, an understanding of Chaucer as an intertextual author and through a shared relationship with postmodern critical analyses of Chaucer‘s relevance today is integral in providing new diverse and inclusive perspectives into Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. By eschewing traditional adaptation studies methods of examining the fidelity of an adaptation towards its source material, the goal is to understand the adaptations as separate but equal works of art that help to make Chaucer more modern and more accessible for students who ascribe to a variety of marginalized identities. The Canterbury Tales directed by Jonathan Myerson and published by the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) employs female animators to offer feminist outlooks on Chaucer’s presentation of women with proto-feminist values, while also managing to explore the nature of masculinity through the tales of the Reeve and Miller. In the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini’s adaptation I racconti di Canterbury, the author employs his queer perspectives on Chaucer’s tales and examines the dueling natures of social normalcy and deviancy to question the nature of a regressive society. In Marilyn Nelson’s adaptation, The Cachoeira Tales, she explores the nature of the pilgrimage through the experiences of a member of the African-American diaspora and uses Chaucer to create an African American history in the face of centuries of erasure of black identity. Each adaptation engages with postmodern Chaucerian critics and provides for new methods of understanding and relating to Chaucer in relation to growing student diversity on campuses across America, while destabilizing the privileged readings of Chaucer as a symbol of English nationalism.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Richard T. Milliga
A New Framework for the Citation Indexing Paradigm
No full textA new citation indexing paradigm is proposed: the cascading citation indexing framework (c2IF, for short). It improves the way research publications are assessed for their impact in promoting science and technology. Given a collection of articles and their citation graph, citations are considered at the (article, author) level. Each one article is uniquely identified by means of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI, http://www.doi.org). To identify each one author uniquely, a Universal Author Identifier (UAI) scheme is established. In addition to the citations directly made to a given (article, author) pair, citation paths that target each one citing article are also considered. The granularity of the paradigm is further increased by introducing the concept of the chord, whereby a citation path of length one co-exists with paths of length two or higher, involving the same source- and target- articles. The c2IF output emerges in the form
of a medal standings table, analogous to the one that ranks teams at athletic events: when two (article, author) pairs receive the same number of (direct) citations, the one that is cited by more popular articles (i.e. articles that comprise targets to a larger number of paths in the citation graph), is assigned a higher rank value
Review of 'Richard Linklater ' by David T. Johnson
No full textIn her 2006 summary of the history of debates on authorship in general and in cinema in particular, Pam Cook observes that ‘the function of the author/artist at one time limited to art cinema has extended to popular commercial cinema’ and moreover that: ‘Art cinema could provide a means of critical entry into commercial cinema, not in terms of the confirmation of traditional auteur analysis, but in the interests of understanding the relationship between art cinema and commercial cinema in order to question the conventional division between “art” and “entertainment”’ (1). By ‘traditional’ auteur analysis Cook means the kind of ahistorical approaches associated with the New Wave politique des auteurs, long since out of favour, that accorded to the film director a God-like status transcending industrial and other contextual circumscriptions. Instead, she emphasises the rise of the notion of the author as marketing category in contemporary scholarship. However, her comments about the usefulness of the art cinema author paradigm, most closely associated with the work of David Bordwell, for approaching more mainstream cinemas are acutely relevant to the films of Richard Linklater and to David T. Johnson’s unapologetically auteurist analysis of the
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
The structures and textures of disease made printable:Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings … to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy (1799–1802)
No full textThis article interrogates how the visual foundations of observational disciplines were made by closely examining a unique set of historical materials that details every stage of the printmaking process for Matthew Baillie’s A Series of Engravings – from the original anatomical preparations, through the preparatory drawings and copperplates, to the final printed images. Focusing on this material demonstrates that the requirements of printmaking fundamentally shaped the visual appearance, epistemic content, and communicative properties of observational disciplines, in this case pathology. Baillie chose preparations “capable of being illustrated” and emphasized the suitability of his collaborators to produce reliable epistemic images. In turn, the artist William Clift used watercolor to produce naturalistic illustrations that emphasized key epistemic content for interpretation by the engravers William Skelton, James Basire II, and James Heath. The engravers then translated the watercolors into etched and engraved lines on copperplates that reproduced the salient features of Clift’s preparatory drawings while adhering to recognized epistemic and stylistic standards for scientific publications
Restorative Jelly and Strengthening Soup
No full textBy James Stark and Richard Bellis Victorians were obsessed with diet and appetite. Discussions about how to provide adequate nutrition to different human bodies spanned specialized scientific practice, domestic cookery, and manufacturers of new food products, not to mention popular culture and discourse. Fig. 1. Recipes Books courtesy of The Cookery Collection at the University of Leeds As part of a British Academy Digital Humanities project – Eating Yourself Young – we have been exploring t..
- …
