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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
Accumulating Character: Time and Ethos in Rhetorical Theory
Get PDFThesis (Ph.D.) - Indiana University, Department of English/University Graduate School, 2019“Accumulating Character” develops a theoretical framework that highlights the rhetorical and interrelated workings of character and time. In rhetorical scholarship, character—or ethos—is typically construed as either fleeting or fixed. This dissertation makes explicit the links between these two temporal extremes, identifying the ways that ethos accumulates rhetorical force over time. To attend to the temporal dimensions of ethos, I first construct a rhetorical model of accumulated time. Here, I conjoin Aristotle’s definition of chronos in the Physics with the scholarship of Karen Barad to craft a complex picture of accumulated time as a rhetorically significant materialdiscursive force that emerges from the deep entanglement of nonhuman and human ecologies. In
Chapter 2, I sketch a framework for understanding how a rhetorical sense of accumulated time underscores the temporal dynamics of ethos. To make visible the ways that this cumulative ethos operates, I analyze multiple classical texts concerning the trial of Socrates and demonstrate the cumulative rhetorical effects of Socrates’ ethos on the city of Athens. In Chapter 3, I examine how the accelerated circulation of online media disrupts the temporal regularity that often governs the evolution of cumulative ethos. To account for these temporal complexities, I develop the paired concepts of rhetorical saturation and rhetorical rupture and explain how they function in dialectical tension with each other. I then elucidate how these twin ideas contribute to the irregular accumulation of character by analyzing Kanye West’s ethos as it circulates across a variety of online platforms. In Chapter 4, I investigate how cryptocurrencies test the limits of rhetorical character by disrupting the timeline for its accretion and decentering cumulative ethos from human subjects. By studying Bitcoin through the lens of cumulative ethos, I foreground the centrality of both character and time to commerce as well as the consequences of attempting to replace a complex rhetorical figure like ethos with a mechanical facsimile like the blockchain protocol. In sum, “Accumulating Character” emphasizes the importance of accumulated time to
rhetorical activity, and especially to the concept of ethos. This, in turn, makes visible the complicated ways that character accrues rhetorical influence as it negotiates shifting temporalities
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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"I Miss the Old Kanye": How Does Rhetorical Character Accrete Over Time in Digital Media?
No full textMy dissertation investigates how ethos—the rhetorical representation of character—accumulates over time in digital media. Through the analysis of websites and social media, I develop the concept of “cumulative ethos,” which reveals the persuasive effects of character as it evolves over time and across digital platforms. While my research investigates traditional understandings of character in individual human subjects—the provocative ethos of Kanye West, for example—I also extend the idea of "cumulative ethos" to consider the character of online organizations and virtual spaces/places. To analyze such a large digital archive (including thousands of tweets, blog posts, and news articles), I use both network analysis and sentiment analysis to uncover temporal patterns in the ways that character is constructed and eroded in online spaces. In some salient cases--such as the unconventional "iterative" release of Kanye West's 2016 album, The Life of Pablo—I also integrate these digital methods with traditional rhetorical hermeneutics to craft a more complex picture of how character develops over time in digital media
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