1,720,955 research outputs found
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
Book review: mediators, contract men, and colonial capital by Cassandra Mark Thiesen
No full textHenry Brefo describes this book as a rich historical archive that enriches our understanding of the dynamic history of labour in the Gold Coast
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
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
Traditional authority, enlightenment, and education bureaucracy in Ghana: The case of the Otumfuo Education Fund
Get PDFSince the colonial period, monarchs in Asante have undertaken important projects in education to improve their communities' social well-being and material welfare. Following this tradition, in 1999, the current Asantehene Osei Tutu II initiated the Otumfuo Education Fund (OEF) to make education accessible to ‘brilliant but needy’ children in Asante and Ghana as a whole. This thesis examines the rise and fall of the Otumfuo Education Fund (OEF), to shed light on the complex relationship between education and the legitimacy of traditional rulers (‘chiefs’) in Ghana. It explores the interplay between traditional authority, formal education, and localised notions of social progress and success, as summed up in the Twi term anibue (lit. ‘eyes opened’, also translated as ‘enlightenment’).
Existing analyses of access to formal education in Ghana begin with mission-initiated and state-regulated efforts in the colonial period and have focused on the state and donors in the postcolonial period. This has hindered a deeper understanding of local initiatives and chiefs' utilization of education beyond formal state policy and practice. Situating the OEF within the historical context of traditional rulers' involvement in formal education, and in the specific global and national circumstances of the late 1990s, including democratization, World Bank initiatives, and the recognition of basic education as a child's right, it offers an interdisciplinary analysis of why development interventions in education fail.
Relying on archival records, interviews and observations, as well as data generated via local documentary practices, our findings suggest that the Asantehene Osei Tutu II strategically used education to further his hegemonic and political ambitions, ultimately impacting local support and dissatisfaction for the OEF. Contrary to conventional analysis of chiefs' role in development, this thesis challenges actor-oriented approaches and assumptions of brokerage. It highlights the importance of emotional and interpersonal dynamics in development practice. It also establishes a crucial link between the historical literature on education and political insights into the continuing power of traditional rulers, by showing how chiefs have incorporated bureaucratic governance into their registers of power through their engagement with education. Findings from the research hold important lessons for ongoing state initiatives (such as free Senior High School education, SHS) in expanding access to education for poorer communities in Ghana and Africa more broadly
- …
