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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
Forseglet – spiselige dyr og flydende materialitet i et fødevarelaboratorium i København
Get PDFCONTAINED – EDIBLE ANIMALS AND FLUID MATERIALITY IN A FOOD LABORATORY IN COPENHAGEN
In a small food laboratory in central Copenhagen, an attempt to make soy sauce from insects has resulted in a brownish liquid contained in a small bottle under a waxy seal. To the scientists who have made the liquid, edibility and the substances used to create it result from encounters between a number of different things. In recent times, however, global institutions such as the FAO have defined insects as a potential new food source in times of scarce resources and growing populations based on one thing in particular; their high yields of protein. I draw from my ethnographic fieldwork on practices of cooking with insects in the food laboratory to suggest that edibility, rather than a fixed quality of nutrition should be engaged as the result of an arduous work process situated amid ever-transforming divisions and connections. In times of calling upon ever more species to the canon of human industrial products, I argue, an important potential of ethnographic encounter lies in its abilities to raise questions of self-containment by bringing the muddles of collaboration to the fore of the discussion
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
At holde hus med naturen: Økologiske foderøkonomier i industrielle tider
Get PDFTo økologiske malkekvægbesætninger på den danske vestkyst og deres forskellige kulturhistoriske forbindelser til det konventionelle landbrug danner i denne artikel rammen om en kulturanalyse af økologiens perspektiver på natur og miljø. Økologisk landbrug er vokset siden 1970’erne, hvor den økologiske jordbrugsbevægelse for alvor blev en realitet i Danmark. Men stigningen i antallet af de økologiske bedrifter er ikke kun et spørgsmål om mængde. Med godt 50 kilometer og to grundlæggende forskellige tilgange til mælkeproduktion imellem sig, illustrerer de to kvægbesætninger det kvalitative spænd, artiklen argumenterer for, kendetegner økologisk mælkeproduktion i dag. Gennem en etnografisk og kulturhistorisk udforskning af de to gårdes forskellige tilgange til foder, viser artiklen, at hjemmedyrket økologisk foder – en hjørnesten i de økologiske principper og en væsentlig måde, hvorpå økologer “holder hus” med naturen – på samme tid muliggør økologisk mælkeproduktion og det industrialiserede landbrug, økologien i sin tid søgte at gøre op med. Dette er en kritisk indsigt i lyset af vor tids planetære kriser, hvor økologien ofte fremhæves som et ensartet felt og en løsning i sig selv
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