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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
Feather mosaics from the Keram river ::exceptional Sepik assemblage art
No full textThroughout New Guinea, bird feathers have long played an important part in dance costumes and personal adornment, and they continue to do so. In the East Sepik Province, feathered dance costumes of extraordinary complexity and height were recorded in the early twentieth century in villages on the Keram and Ramu Rivers, the Murik Lagoon, and Hansa Bay. A different ceremonial use of feather mosaic arrays on wooden supports existed in villages along the Keram River and are the subject of this study. Very little contextual information was recorded when these assemblages were collected between 1913 and 1936, but recent research indicates that panel-shaped feather mosaics were arranged into large-scale assemblages inside the men’s ceremonial houses for the initiation ceremonies of young men. As highly charged and powerful objects, they bridged the world of the living with that of the ancestors, a visual aid to access complex myths and stories that would provide the spiritual foundation for every young man’s education. While clearly related, the exact function of paddle- shaped feather mosaics collected in the same region still eludes us
Der Anthropologe, des Maschinist und der Missionar ::eine Bestandsaufnahme der Federmosaiken vom Keram Fluss Papua Neuguinea
No full textBis in das frühe 20. Jahrhundert waren hochkomplexe Federmosaiken Bestandteil kultischer Handlungen in den Dorfschaften des Keram Flusses in Papua Neuguinea. Sie wurden zwischen 1913 und 1935 von Ethnologen und Händlern sowohl als außerordentliche Kunstleistungen als auch als Belegstücke einer untergehenden Kultur für europäische Museen gesammelt. Nur sehr wenig wurde damals über ihre Funktion im kulturellen Kontext in Erfahrung gebracht. Dieser Beitrag geht ihrer Geschichte nach und gibt neue Ansätze zu ihrer Interpretatio
Characterization and contextualization of a group of Aénts Chicham (Jivaro) artefacts formerly in the theological department of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
No full textThis paper presents an unpublished collection of Aénts Chicham artefacts that were discovered in the former ethnographic collections of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Besides traditional material culture from the Ecuador and Peruvian border area, it contains items that incorporate Western materials such as textiles and glass beads. Highly appreciated by indigenous societies, these were exchanged over great distances through a system of trade partners. The collection is discussed together with its possible link to the Jesuit Mainas missions and to Swiss emigration waves of the 19th century
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
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