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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
«Reconocer» y «revitalizar» el náhuat (pipil) desde una perspectiva ladina: entre esencialismo y racialización
No full textBased on a PhD ethnographic study conducted on Nawat (Pipil) revitalization initiatives in El Salvador between 2014 and 2019, this article offers an original look at the promotion of Indigenous languages by focusing on the ladino population's political interest in indigenous languages and linguistic revitalization. Based on the analysis of discourses by members of the government's communication team during a pre-electoral visit of the former president of the Republic of El Salvador to an indigenous village in the west of the country (2018), this study analyzes the historical, political, and linguistic processes through which Ladinos today promote "language recovery" and assume the rhetoric of "recognition" of Indigenous Peoples. This study shows that these discourses entail a form of coloniality of language through the essentialism of the Indigenous.Basado en un estudio etnográfico realizado en el marco de una tesis doctoral sobre las iniciativas de revitalización del náhuat en El Salvador entre 2014 y 2019, este artículo ofrece una mirada original sobre la promoción de las lenguas indígenas al centrarse en el interés político de la población ladina por las lenguas indígenas y la revitalización lingüística. A partir del análisis de discursos de miembros del equipo de comunicación del gobierno durante una visita preelectoral del expresidente de la República de El Salvador a una aldea indígena del oeste del país (2018), este estudio analiza los procesos históricos, políticos y lingüísticos a través de los cuales los ladinos promueven hoy la «recuperación de la lengua» y asumen la retórica del «reconocimiento» de los pueblos indígenas. Este estudio muestra que estos discursos conllevan una forma de colonialidad del lenguaje a través del esencialismo de las personas indígenas
Proyectos culturales, políticas lingu¿ísticas y justicia social. Las iniciativas de revitalización del náhuat en El Salvador.
No full textProyectos culturales, políticas lingu¿ísticas y justicia social: Las iniciativas
de revitalización del náhuat en El Salvador.
Este capítulo explora las dinámicas de los movimientos de revitalización
del náhuat en El Salvador, desde la perspectiva de la sociolingu¿ística
crítica. Después de contextualizar su emergencia en los años
90, se exploran los discursos de sus militantes, relacionándolos con
otros procesos sociales propios a las sociedades centroamericanas
contemporáneas : contexto de salida de la guerra civil, neoliberalismo,
presencia de pandillas, reivindicaciones de los pueblos indígenas¿
Más que aportar respuestas a los diversos problemas que surgen
del proceso de revitalización del náhuat, se busca cuestionarlo
de forma crítica : ¿Hasta qué punto las iniciativas de revitalización
lingu¿ística ofrecen respuestas a los problemas sociales que enfrenta
El Salvador hoy en día? ¿Cómo desarrollar proyectos culturales inclusivos
y justos con las personas que hablan náhuat?Cultural projects, language policies and social justice: the náhuat revitalization
initiatives in El Salvador.
This chapter explores the dynamics of the linguistic revitalization movement
of the náhuat language in El Salvador, from a critical sociolinguistic
perspective. It contextualizes its emergence in the 90s, and
explores the discourses of the activists, connecting them with other important
social processes of today¿s Central American societies: post-civil
war context, neoliberalism, gang violence, indigenous people claims¿
Rather than answering the various problems that arise from the revitalization
process, the goal of this chapter is to adress it in a critical way: to which extent does language revitalization initiatives provide answers
to the social problems facing El Salvador today? Can we develop fair,
inclusive cultural projects with people who speak náhuat, and how?Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Área de Historia del ArtePostprin
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
Proyectos culturales, políticas lingüísticas y justicia social. Las iniciativas de revitalización del náhuat en El Salvador
No full textInternational audienceThis chapter explores the dynamics of the linguistic revitalization movement of the Náhuat language in El Salvador, from a critical sociolinguistic perspective. It contextualizes its emergence in the 90s, and explores the discourses of the activists, connecting them with other important social processes of today’s Central American societies: post-civil war context, neoliberalism, gang violence, indigenous people claims… Rather than answering the various problems that arise from the revitalization process, the goal of this chapter is to adress it in a critical way: to which extent does language revitalization initiatives provide answers to the social problems facing El Salvador today? Can we develop fair, inclusive cultural projects with people who speak Náhuat, and how?Este capítulo explora las dinámicas de los movimientos de revitalización del náhuat en El Salvador, desde la perspectiva de la sociolingüística crítica. Después de contextualizar su emergencia en los años 90, se exploran los discursos de sus militantes, relacionándolos con otros procesos sociales propios a las sociedades centroamericanas contemporáneas : contexto de salida de la guerra civil, neoliberalismo, presencia de pandillas, reivindicaciones de los pueblos indígenas… Más que aportar respuestas a los diversos problemas que surgen del proceso de revitalización del náhuat, se busca cuestionarlo de forma crítica : ¿Hasta qué punto las iniciativas de revitalización lingüística ofrecen respuestas a los problemas sociales que enfrenta El Salvador hoy en día? ¿Cómo desarrollar proyectos culturales inclusivos y justos con las personas que hablan náhuat
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