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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
Théorie quantique et sciences humaines
No full textEt si la science physique la plus récente sortait de son domaine d’application traditionnel ? Si la physique quantique, développée par Planck, Bohr et Einstein, se confrontaient aux sciences dites humaines ? Tel est le projet de Michel Bitbol et de son équipe dans cet ouvrage hors norme, faisant fi des frontières traditionnelles. Quelles affinités peuvent partager ces deux types de science ? Quels rôles y jouent l’homme ? Parmi les thèmes choisis pour cette confrontation citons : la prise de décision, la théorie du comportement, la recherche de l’utilité
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
Direct perceptual experience : what meditative, bodily and artistic practices bring to cognitive science
No full textL'expérience perceptive directe se vit lors d'un moment juste qui donne accès, dans l'instant présent, à des données de la connaissance de soi et de la connaissance objective. Ce processus à caractère flou et insaisissable est étudié en première personne à partir de mes expériences en arts martiaux, en méditation et en accompagnement à autrui, en deuxième personne à travers les entretiens d'explicitation de pratiquants d'arts martiaux, et en troisième personne avec l'étude bibliographique de travaux scientifiques et artistiques. Cette thèse a suivi le cheminement parallèle d'un travail de recherche et d'une transformation intérieure. Cette double évolution trace une voie qui relie l'approfondissement du ressenti corporel et énergétique, les échanges nourrissants guidés par des connexions synchronistiques et l'harmonisation avec le contexte environnant, pour aboutir au passage d'une réflexion de la tête à un espace du cœur. Elle élargit la conscience perceptive qui voyage du regard sensoriel à une vision plus intuitive. La véracité des informations immatérielles perçues et non démontrables s'auto-valide par la création de son propre outil de vérification. Cet outil est porté par les valeurs d'intégrité qui responsabilisent le chercheur comme le lecteur à travers une relation d'équilibre interactif qui repose sur la notion d'utilité vitale et sur le positionnement éthique de chacune des parties. Ce ne sont plus les parties qui sont à la recherche scientifique du tout, mais l'universel qui vient guider le cœur de ces infimes parcelles de l'univers incarnée par chacun de nous.Direct perceptual experience can be lived as a true moment providing access, in the present moment, to self-knowledge and objective knowledge. The details of this elusive process is apprehended through my experiences in martial arts, meditation, energetic healing and coaching (first-person point of view), through elicitation interviews with martial artists (second-person method), and the review of scientific and artistic literature (third-person approach). This dissertation has followed the parallel journey of research work and inner transformation. This twofold development follows a path that puts together the deepening of body energy and feeling, nourishing exchanges guided by synchronistic connections, and by harmonization with the surrounding context. This association leads to the passage of reflexion in the head to a space of the heart. It brings an expansion of perceptual awareness from sensory seeing to intuitive vision. The veracity of immaterial information that occurs through this perceptual enlargement, is self-validated by creating a holographic personal verification tool. This tool is supported by the values of integrity that empower the research as well as the reader, through an interactive equilibrium relationship based on the concept of vital utility and ethical stance of each party. No longer does scientific research use parts to provide a theory of everything: instead the universal comes to guide the heart of these tiny patches of the universe embodied in each of us
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
Fiction and knowledge, from the theatre to physics : esthetics and the sciences from the actor's perspective : towards a fruitful philosophy of the absurd
No full textLa fiction, bien plutôt que de relever d'une illusion, stérile et dangereuse, engendrée par une imagination trop souvent réduite à n'être que la « folle du logis» par la tradition rationaliste de la philosophie, ne montre-t-elle pas toute sa pertinence et sa fécondité dans le double domaine de l'esthétique et de l'épistémologie, que ce soit, par exemple, dans le jeu paradoxal du comédien ou dans la métaphorisation du réel par le chercheur scientifique, qui s'alimentent, tous deux, à la source d'une mimésis où s'originent toute connaissance comme toute action humaines ? Mais la fiction ne trouve et ne prouve toute son ampleur théorique et pratique que d'être inscrite dans une « philosophie du comme si », dont la véritable filiation est à rechercher dans un kantisme élargi plutôt que dans l'orthodoxie pragmatiste. Ce fictionalisme, qui permet à l'esprit humain de se déprendre de ses habitudes conceptuelles en faisant primer l'intuition poïétique sur l'intelligence technique, ne peut lui-même faire son œuvre que d'être ancré en une philosophie de l'absurde qui, bien loin de réduire « l'homme absurde» au désespoir, en appelle à une décision existentielle de (c l'âme active» qui ré-éveille le génie qui sommeille en chaque homme à l'exigence d'une existence soucieuse de lucidité et de responsabilité, pour soi-même et les autres comme pour le monde.Does not fiction, rather than arising from a sterile and dangerous illusion, engendered by a creative faculty that is too often reduced by the rationalist tradition in philosophy to nothing more than "an overactive imagination", reveal ail of its relevance and fecundity in the dual domain of esthetics and epistemology - for example in the paradoxical performance of an actor or the metaphorisation of the real by a scientific researcher, both of which draw from the source of a mimesis in which ail knowledge and ail human actions originate ? But the full theoretical and practical scope of fiction can only be found and proven when it is situated within a "philosophy of the as if, whose true filiation is to be found in a broadened Kantianism rather than in the pragmatist orthodoxy. Such a fictionalism, which allows the human mind to free itself from its conceptual habits by stressing intuition over technical intelligence, can itself do its work only by being rooted in a philosophy of the absurd which, far from reducing "the absurd man" to despair, calls for an existential decision of the "active soul" which re-awakens the spirit that lies dormant in each human individual to the demands of an existence mindful of lucidity an responsibility, for oneself and for others as for the world
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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