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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
El conflicto por la tierra en la política de la seguridad democrática : transformaciones territoriales en el Consejo Comunitario de Alto Mira y Frontera, Nariño, Colombia, 2002-2010
Full text linkTesis de MaestríaEsta tesis está basada en una investigación de carácter etnográfico y de fuentes documentales, en torno a transformaciones territoriales en el Consejo Comunitario de Alto Mira y Frontera en Tumaco, Colombia durante la implementación de la política de la seguridad democrática del gobierno de Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Asimismo, la tesis analiza las relaciones, tensiones y discursos en torno al territorio, la diferenciación en términos de valor en relación a la tierra y el territorio así como la producción desigual del territorio a raíz de la implementación de políticas que benefician a algunos empresarios y políticos de la región. El trabajo de campo fue realizado durante tres años (2016-2018) en el Municipio de Tumaco, en 15 veredas de las 42 que configuran el Consejo Comunitario de Alto Mira y Frontera, se realizaron 12 grupos focales orientados a las problemáticas del territorio, así como una exhaustiva revisión de textos y medios de comunicación que abordaran el problema de investigación. La tesis da cuenta que si bien el gobierno de Álvaro Uribe favoreció a través de diversas leyes y políticas públicas el crecimiento de los empresarios; por medio de la represión y la normatividad, asimismo favoreció el despojo de tierras y el accionar de grupos narcotraficantes y paramilitares. A pesar de esto, gran parte de las comunidades resisten a través de la creación de diferentes proyectos productivos, culturales y educativos que permiten sostener un equilibrio comunitario, configurar nuevas formas de resistencia a partir de la identidad afrodescendiente y fortalecer así los lazos de comunidad.Fil: Reyes Benavides, Jesús Antonio. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales; Argentin
The Silences of Dispossession
Full text linkThis book explores omissions, or silences, in previous investigations of agrarian transformations by foregrounding indigenous experiences of capitalist development. Providing a rich and detailed ethnographic study, Mercedes Biocca shows how capitalist processes are perceived, experienced, and either confronted or accepted depending on the different ways in which dispossession, resistance and negotiation have become embedded in the collective local memory. Challenging accounts that efface the agency of subalterns in shaping rural dynamics, and ignore the diversity of perspectives within indigenous groups, Biocca untangles the connections between global, national and local spatial scales in her analysis of accumulation by dispossession. Using two case studies, the Qom People in Pampa del Indio and the Moqoit people in Las Tolderías, she presents the main transformations that have taken place in the Argentine agricultural sector during the hegemony of post-neoliberalism while centring the perceptions and roles of subalterns within these transformations
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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