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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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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Parents and Sages as Agents of Culture in the Babylonian Talmud
No full textThis dissertation explores how the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) portray parents as involved in cultural transmission. Earlier scholarship has claimed that the rabbis sought to replace parents and the home as the primary locus of education. Through source criticism and close literary analysis, however, I show the situation to be far more complex. The rabbis address parental cultural transmission using the phrases talmud torah and hinukh. They use the term talmud torah to describe the act of studying and teaching Torah—scripture and rabbinic law and lore, while hinukh is ritual initiation and instruction. The Bavli limits the content that parents are required to transmit to their children and instructs them to bring their children to a schoolteacher to study. The Bavli, however, expands the realm of hinukh, portraying it as an obligation of parents to teach their children how to perform Jewish ritual until they become the age of majority and enter into their own full obligation. The shifting of talmud torah outside the home therefore reframed rather than eliminated the parental role in cultural transmission.
The Bavli addresses parental cultural transmission in less explicit ways as well. Moving beyond what the rabbis would have identified as cultural transmission, I select passages that portray dyadic encounters between parents and children. Attending to what parents transmit in these encounters expands our understanding of how the rabbis portray cultural transmission by addressing the parental role in transmitting an unwritten curriculum of rabbinic culture.
One example of this unwritten curriculum is the value the sages placed on Torah study. In a story about Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (Rashbi) and his son retreating to a cave, the Bavli transforms a pre-existing tale about Rashbi into a tale of a father who attempts to transmit to his son the value of unadulterated Torah study—a practice of Torah study uninterrupted by other pursuits. I look to a separate set of tales in Bavli Bava Metzia to explore the ways in which the son enacts and transforms the values his father has taught. This analysis unearths a rabbinic cognizance of the complexities inherent in the parental transmission of a worldview—in contrast to transmission of a set of content or a set of skills, transmission of a worldview is a much more subtle and uncertain process. This internal rabbinic reflection defies attempts at placing it within a narrative of the shift in the locus of authority from father to sage; the same tensions and complexities highlighted by looking at these stories in tandem could surface equally if the sage were the central transmitter of this cultural worldview. My dissertation thus complicates simple narratives suggesting that the Bavli portrays the sage as completely taking over the role of cultural transmission from the father.
Finally, this dissertation brings together a variety of texts in which mothers transmit cultural knowledge and cultural objects to their sons and argues that the Bavli is more comfortable portraying knowledgeable women when these women use their knowledge in service of their maternal role. The most expansive example of this phenomenon is the mother of Abaye, whose teachings her son transmits two dozen times in the Bavli. Her presence and the presence of other mothers demonstrates that the walls between the home and the beit midrash were porous. The study of parents as agents of rabbinic culture thus expands our understanding of rabbinic culture and refines our knowledge of the parental role in education.
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