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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    Françoise Héritier & Pierre Bourdieu: The Hierarchical Construction of the Male/Female Difference

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    Em fins dos anos 1990 Françoise Héritier e Pierre Bourdieu lançariam, com um intervalo de apenas dois anos, Masculin/Feminin, la pensée de la diférence (1996) e La domination masculine (1998), respectivamente. Versando sobre a construção hierárquica da diferença masculino/feminino, ambos os livros apresentam uma perspectiva, se não cética, ao menos pouco otimista em relação aos discursos, anunciando possíveis deslocamentos ou mesmo o apagamento da “diferença”. Mais do que apontar os significativos afastamentos entre esses autores no que tange à questão, este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre os pontos nos quais suas perspectivas convergem.In the late 1990s Françoise Héritier and Pierre Bourdieu published, with an interval ofonly two years between them, Masculin/Feminin,la pensée de la différence (1996), and La domination masculine (1998), respectively. Dealing with thehierarchical construction of the difference betweenmale and female, both books present a perspecti-ve that is, if not skeptical, at least little optimisticconcerning the discourses that announce possibledisplacements or even the erasure of “difference”.Instead of pointing out the significant distance be-tween these authors in dealing with the issue, thisarticle proposes a reflection on the topics in whichtheir perspectives converge

    Dead Ringers: uma narrativa contemporânea sobre gemeidade, esterilidade e incesto

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    Starting from the idea of mythical texture – this persistent and flexible plot able to intertwine with other narrative yarns or fabrics –, this article proposes a reflection on the way the ideal of a perfect twinning, common to Indo-European tradition, has been updated in contemporary narratives. Having as a guideline of this reflection David Cronenberg’s feature film Dead Ringers (1989) – featuring gynecologist twins as main characters – the symbolic discourse of the plot that interweaves twinning, sterility and incest is analyzed. Ultimately it is about disentangling, in the tangle of its meshes, the coherence of a symbolic discourse about twinning, in its limits and utopia.Inspirado na ideia de textura mítica – trama persistente e flexível, capaz de se entrelaçar a outros fios ou tecidos narrativos –,1 o ideal de uma perfeita gemeidade, comum à tradição indo-europeia, vem sendo atualizado nas narrativas contemporâneas. Tendo como fio condutor desta reflexão o longa-metragem Gêmeos, mórbida semelhança (Dead Ringers/1989), de David Cronenberg – que apresenta gêmeos ginecologistas como personagens centrais –, analisa-se o discurso simbólico da trama, que entretece gemeidade, esterilidade e incesto. Em última instância, trata-se de destrinçar, no emaranhado de suas malhas, a coerência de um discurso simbólico sobre a gemeidade, em seus limites e utopia

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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