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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
The urban (re) development project through the lens of spatial justice and the paradigm of the just city : winners and losers : insights from the Bouregreg Valley (Rabat - Morocco) and the Saint-Sauveur (Lille - France) development projects
No full textDans cette thèse, nous nous inscrivons dans la continuité des travaux critiques qui ont remis en question l'inscription des projets urbains dans des formes de production urbaine globalisées, en les considérant comme des instruments socialement sélectifs et spatialement ségrégatifs. Ces travaux ont mobilisé le projet urbain pour critiquer les politiques urbaines néolibérales qui privilégient le développement économique au détriment de la dimension sociale. Dans notre recherche, nous mobilisons le projet urbain pour étudier la problématique de l'exclusion dans l'espace et dans la prise de décision, en nous demandant comment identifier les bénéficiaires appropriés du projet urbain. En considérant le projet urbain comme une notion hybride, associant à la fois un processus et des résultats, ainsi qu'une notion progressiste centrée sur les acteurs et les règles, consiste à déterminer dans quelle mesure la configuration des règles et des acteurs permet de produire un projet urbain sans perdants ? Pour répondre à cette question, notre recherche s'appuie sur le cadre théorique de la justice, en particulier les théories de la ville juste et de la justice spatiale. Nous développons des indicateurs appropriés pour identifier les bénéficiaires adéquats du projet dans une configuration d'acteurs et de règles propres au projet urbain. Nous émettons l'hypothèse que la configuration des règles et des acteurs a une influence sur une dimension de la justice spatiale, et qu'une injustice spatiale produit de l'exclusion et des oubliés dans le déroulement du projet urbain. Afin de vérifier cette hypothèse, notre approche de recherche consiste à élaborer un cadre d'analyse qui prend en compte à la fois les deux dimensions du projet urbain (le processus de prise de décision et les résultats concrets) et les trois dimensions de la justice spatiale (procédurale, distributive et de reconnaissance). Pour ce faire, nous avons recours au cadre d'analyse « Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) » que nous exploitons pour proposer une grille d'analyse tri-dimensionnelle (règles, processus et résultats) où des indicateurs sont mis en place pour examiner chaque niveau. Nous confrontons cette grille d'analyse à l'observation empirique de deux projets d'aménagement urbain : le projet de Saint-Sauveur à Lille (France) et le projet d'aménagement de la Vallée de Bouregreg à Rabat (Maroc). En étudiant ces deux projets, nous démontrons que le projet urbain, qui se veut inclusif en termes d'acteurs et de règles, produit de l'exclusion en oubliant certains acteurs et en établissant des règles exclusives.This dissertation builds upon critical research that challenges the integration of urban projects into globalized forms of urban production arguing that urban projects are socially selective and spatially segregated. Our research seeks to explore the urban project from the perspective of exclusion in both space and decision-making, viewing it as a hybrid notion encompassing both a process and results, as well as a progressive notion focused on actors and rules. Our goal is to determine to what extent the configuration of rules and actors can produce an urban project without losers. To address this research question, we draw upon the theoretical framework of justice, specifically theories of just cities and spatial justice. We develop appropriate indicators to identify adequate beneficiaries of the project within a configuration of actors and rules specific to the urban project. We suppose that the configuration of rules and actors influences a dimension of spatial justice, and that spatial injustice produces exclusion within decision-making and space. To study this assumption, we propose an analytical framework that considers both dimensions of the urban project (the decision-making process and concrete results) and the three dimensions of spatial justice (procedural, distributive, and recognition) using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Each level is examined through a set of indicators. We apply this framework to two urban development projects: the Saint-Sauveur project in Lille (France) and the Bouregreg Valley development project in Rabat (Morocco). Through our analysis of these two projects, we demonstrate that the urban project, which aims to be inclusive in terms of actors and rules, produces exclusion within actors and through establishing exclusive rules
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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