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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
Goethe's Phenomenology
Get PDFGoethe' s Phenomenology - Abstract The aim of this thesis was to explain the philosophical foundations and horizons of the work of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with an emphasis on his concept of phenomenon and appearing, in which he is presented as a significant contributor to the reflection of the category of mediation in German late Enlightenment and idealistic discourse. The work showed how Goethe's (including poetic) works show some theoretically based or systematizable aspects which genealogy, reception and applicability in general the author attempts to interpret. He also interprets the philosophemes connected with Goethe's work: he puts Goethe in the contexts of the German and European thinking of the age of the Enlightenment, of its rationalist bases and of its rethinking of the nineteenth- century concepts of thought. The work shows the breadth and complexity of Goethe's spiritual resources and their creative appropriation by him, as well as the far-reaching influence of Goethe on the German philosophy already in his time (Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, etc.). He tries to overcome the stereotypes or shortcomings he finds in several previous interpretations, discussing first the philosophical literature about Goethe. In systematic and historical contexts, he represents Goethe confrontations with the..
Crucius’s Conception of Historicity as a Process of Self-Cultivation in the Context of German Enlightenment
Get PDFTato studie představuje u příležitosti jeho dvojího jubilea přínos německého osvícenského filozofa a teologa Christiana Augusta Crusia moderní konstituci pojmů dějinnosti a kultury. Vysvětluje Crusiovu opozici vůči leibnizovsko-wolffovské linii německého osvícenství a svébytnost Crusiova konceptu, zachovávajícího východisko v organicismu křesťansky fundované metafyziky, odmítajícího ale četné vlivné postupy logické. Výklad se soustředí na vyvození historičnosti z reflexivity, která překonává organicitu ve smyslu pouhé reprodukce a integruje vlastní tvůrčí potenci kultivací rozumění odvozenosti a kontextovosti vlastního vývoje. Ve spojení principu dějinnosti s etikou je Crusiův projekt srovnáván s pozdějším Schleiermacherovým, v jeho základním poukazu na kulturní a sociální imanenci lidského vztahování s tím Herderovým a jiných německých autorů druhé poloviny 18. století.Marking a double anniversary of the German Enlightenment philosopher and theologian Christian August Crucius, this study aims at presenting his contribution to a modern understanding on historicity and culture. The author explains Crucius’s opposition to the direction of German Enlightenment represented by Leibniz and Wolff, and emphasises the originality of Crucius’s concept, which takes as its starting point the organicism of metaphysics based on Christian foundations, while rejecting many influential logical methods. The exposition focuses on deducing historicity from reflexivity that transcends organicity in the sense of mere reproduction and integrates its creative potential by cultivating the understanding of derivativeness and contextuality of its own development. In bringing together the principle of historicity with ethics, Crusius’s project can be compared to Schleiermacher’s later undertaking, while its basic focus on cultural and social immanence is shared with the work of Herder and other German authors of the second half of the 18th 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
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