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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
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
Mood alternation in argument clauses: On the interrelation between commitments and verbal mood in Romance
No full textAquesta tesi investiga l’alternança del mode verbal entre l'indicatiu i subjuntiu en les llengües romàniques, amb un enfocament particular en el català i l’espanyol. L’alternança del mode fa referència a entorns sintàctics en què l’única variable que canvia és el mode verbal, la qual cosa dona lloc a diferències interpretatives. Tot i que aquest fenomen abasta una àmplia gamma de contextos gramaticals, incloent-hi oracions subordinades, principals i relatives, aquest treball acota la seva anàlisi a les oracions subordinades sota verbs no factius (p. ex., `dir', `creure' sota negació) i verbs de resposta/reacció (response stance verbs, p. ex., `negar', `admetre'). La tesi defensa una perspectiva innovadora que interpreta el mode indicatiu no com un marcador d’actitud cognitiva, sinó com un senyal de compromís normatiu, mentre que el subjuntiu n’indica l’absència. Així es qüestiona la preeminència dels enfocaments cognitius sobre el mode verbal. Aquesta reconceptualització es modela formalment mitjançant el marc teòric del Commitment Space, i és la primera aplicació d’aquest model al fenomen gramatical del mode verbal en les llengües romàniques. La discussió i aplicació d’un enfocament basat en el compromís com a concepte normatiu aporta una nova llum sobre com l’alternança modal estructura el flux informatiu en el discurs, i contribueix, més generalment, als debats oberts sobre el significat i la funció del mode verbal en les llengües romàniques.Esta tesis investiga la alternancia del modo verbal entre el indicativo y subjuntivo en las lenguas románicas, con un enfoque particular en el catalán y el español. La alternancia modal se refiere a contextos sintácticos en los que la única variable que varía es el modo verbal, lo que da lugar a diferencias interpretativas. Aunque este fenómeno abarca una amplia gama de contextos gramaticales, incluyendo oraciones subordinadas, principales y relativas, este trabajo limita su análisis a las oraciones subordinadas bajo verbos no factivos (p. ej., `decir', `creer' bajo negación) y verbos de respuesta/reacción (response stance verbs, p. ej., `negar', `admitir'). La tesis defiende una perspectiva innovadora, interpretando el modo indicativo no como un marcador de actitud cognitiva, sino como una señal de compromiso normativo, mientras que el subjuntivo indica su ausencia. Así se cuestiona la preeminencia de los enfoques cognitivos sobre el modo verbal. Esta reconceptualización se modela formalmente mediante el marco teórico del Commitment Space, siendo la primera aplicación de este modelo al fenómeno gramatical del modo verbal en las lenguas románicas en un contexto normativo. La discusión y aplicación de un enfoque basado en el compromiso aporta una nueva luz sobre cómo la alternancia modal estructura el flujo informativo en el discurso, y contribuye, más generalmente, a los debates abiertos sobre el significado y la función del modo verbal en las lenguas románicas.This thesis investigates verbal mood alternation between the indicative and the subjunctive in Romance languages, with a particular focus on Catalan and Spanish. Mood alternation refers to syntactic environments in which the sole alternating variable is verbal mood, yielding interpretive differences. While this phenomenon spans a wide range of grammatical contexts — including argument, root, and relative clauses — this work narrows its focus to argument clauses under non-factive verbs (e.g., `say', `believe' under negation) and response-stance verbs (e.g. `deny', `admit'). This thesis advances a novel perspective, interpreting the indicative mood not as a marker of cognitive attitude but rather as a signal of normative commitment, with the subjunctive indicating its absence — thus challenging the dominance of cognitive approaches to verbal mood. This reconceptualization is formally modeled through the Commitment Space framework, marking the first application of this model to the grammatical phenomenon of verbal mood in Romance languages. The discussion and application of a commitment-based account sheds new light on how mood alternation shapes the informational flow of discourse in particular, and contributes to ongoing debates about the meaning and function of verbal mood in Romance languages more broadly.Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Doctorat en Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatg
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
Amido & Buchczyk (2022), Whether-exclamatives
No full textProceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session
Whether-exclamatives
Sara Amido & Sebastian Buchczyk
We propose a new category of exclamatives, whether-exclamatives, based on data from European Portuguese and Standard German. We argue that these seem to function as answers to polar questions only because they are coordinated structures in which the first conjunct is an (optionally) elided assertion that answers the preceding question.</p
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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