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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
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Navigating Freedom and Belonging: Black Diaspora, Foreign Expertise, and Resistance in New Granada, 1760s-1800s
No full text“Navigating Freedom and Belonging: Black Diaspora, Foreign Expertise, and Resistance in New Granada, 1760s–1800s” examines the experiences of enslaved and free men and women of African ancestry moving across imperial boundaries in late colonial Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. I focus on how Africans and their descendants, either born or who have lived long in the British, French, or Dutch Americas, carved a niche for themselves in the Spanish colonies before and during the Wars of Independence by maneuvering within the existent practice of expulsion of foreigners. Thus, my work unearths the actions of Black men and women moving across imperial boundaries under different degrees of coercion. I examine what Africans and their descendants thought they were doing as inscribed in their actions (and reactions) in the archival sources. The result is a deep examination of how Black subjects reshaped the Spanish category of forastero and extranjero (outsider) to carve a site of autonomy in the Spanish colonies as newcomers in a strategic move of belonging within exclusion.Chapter 1 interrogates the inconsistencies of Spanish expulsion and sanctuary laws by showing how colonial authorities selectively enforced deportation against foreigners, even as they offered asylum to enslaved runaways. This reveals the flexible and often contradictory nature of colonial governance. Chapters 2 and 3 present case studies of Black actors who navigated these legal systems. Chapter 2 follows Dionicio Smith, a free Black sailor shipwrecked in Cartagena, whose skills and adaptability enabled him to avoid expulsion and become integrated into the Spanish imperial system. Chapter 3 focuses on a Haitian exile community in Puntagorda, Panama, that strategically asserted loyalty to the crown to resist removal and secure their place within colonial society. Chapter 4 examines how prohibitions on Caribbean-born slaves shifted the dynamics of resistance in New Granada and Venezuela, especially in Caracas, where enslaved people increasingly challenged their conditions through legal and extralegal means.
“Navigating Freedom and Belonging” weaves together evidence from its chapters to illuminate the voices of its subjects and critically examine the goals and ambitions they pursued in complex colonial times. Beneath the surface of Spanish legal codes and colonial bureaucracy lies a narrative of resilience that can be read in present times as a struggle for freedom and belonging. Yet, this is also a story shaped by miscalculations that exposed many newcomers to various degrees of scrutiny and control. In the end, this work challenges dominant national histories of Colombia and Venezuela by restoring the voices of those marginalized by fragmented archival sources
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
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Flowers Grew Out of the Asphalt: Black Women’s Territories in São Paulo, 1871-1930
Get PDFFlowers Grew Out of the Asphalt” addresses how the treatment of Black women in the afterlife of slavery, under the guise of whitening ideologies, contributed to the formations of regional identity and Black women’s geographies in the city of São Paulo. The lives and presence of Black women after abolition often go unrecognized as part of a larger omission of slavery and Black histories in public discourse and the brick-and-mortar archive. Relying on medicolegal municipal incident reports, this dissertation centers Black women, their geographies, and spatial histories to push against traditional narratives and imaginings of São Paulo as a principally white, Europeanized city
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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