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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Sensibly preserved: precarity and primitivism in Louis A. Allen's Time Before Morning
No full textThe collection of folklore, folktales, and mythology is rife with colonized Western ideas. In the 1960's Louis A. Allen began collecting Australian Indigenous Art and the stories that informed their creation. Allen was a management theorist who traveled and worked in emerging economies around the world. Allen served in WWII and lost most of his European Jewish family in the Holocaust. This thesis examines Allen's collection of Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and how his experiences and his ideologies influenced his tellings, in particular his concerns about the precarity of Aboriginal culture and his Western ideas of primitivism. By examining three sections of his book, Time Before Morning, this thesis will show that while Allen had altruistic motives for his work, Western ideologies infuse his tellings and provide important insight into settler scholarly work. Louis Allen's family has extensive archival materials including his library, writings, ephemera, and collected artwork. By examining these materials, conducting interviews with several of his children, alongside a close reading of his book the themes of primitivism and precarity swiftly emerge. Australian cosmology and Dreamtime stories are unique. By drawing upon the work of Margaret Jacobs, Glenda Hambly, Adrian Newstead and Bruce Elder it is possible to briefly explore some of the complexity inherent in analyzing Dreamtime stories. Jacob's work connects Australian and Native American experiences, providing a basis from which to examine Allen's work through a USian lens. Chadwick Allen and Linda Tuhiwai Smith provide further conversation about the need to look at Indigenous research through a decolonizing lens as well as a trans-Indigenous one. Precarity is inherent in folktale collections, Donald Haase's provides great understanding about the challenges inherent in these collections and the need to acknowledge the creation of a new text. Primitivism is one of the underlying colonizing ideologies in anthropological work. By examining Richard Slotkin and Ter Ellingson's work on the Noble Savage trope, this topic is further explored in Allen's work to show how ubiquitous this ideology is. The first chapter of this project explores the nature of precarity as it was perceived by Allen and others in Australia. While Allen did not practice Judaism openly, his culture and his experiences in WWII influenced his concerns about the loss of Aboriginal culture. In the 1960s myriad scholars were concerned that modernity would eradicate much of the culture. This is present in Allen's tellings of the funeral myths that he collected and told. One myth, Muryana or Happy Spirit, was only collected by Allen along with a painting named the same. While this might prove Allen's concerns valid, there is tension in the right to collect, publish, and re-tell these stories that were not his own. The second chapter explores the theme of primitivism and how it is expressed in Allen's tellings of "Everyday Myths." These myths were selected and told in a section that purportedly tells the stories of why things are. Primitivism is a valorization of Indigenous cultures and their connections with land. Allen's sense of primitivism is present in the words and stories that he chooses. This chapter closely examines Allen's characterization of women, in particular by aligning transgressive women and the Biblical Eve, and how his insertions and cultural background reflect Western ideology. The final chapter compares three tellings of the Rainbow Serpent Myth collected and retold by Allen, Catherine Berndt, and Caroline Josephs. There are three distinct themes within the variations between these collections: incestual origin of the Wagilag sisters, the nature of the pollution of the waterhole, and the guilt and transgression of the Rainbow Serpent. A close reading of all three tellings shows that each one prioritized a different aspect of Indigenous storytelling as described by Brill de Ramirez. Berndt's collection centers the storyteller, Josephs' collection centers the reader, and Allen's collection centers the story. A close reading of these different emphases highlights a few of the myriad challenges that settler scholar collections and tellings contain. Allen did not collect and tell the Dreamtime stories for his own gain. He was methodical and careful to be accurate. Yet, Western ideologies, like primitivism and precarity, are still present in his work. This thesis shows that as scholars we must always be careful to examine the basis for our decisions. Allen's desire to share these stories with a larger culture led him to infuse the Dreamtime stories he told with Western ideas of Indigeneity. As such, this study reminds us to be careful of what and how we gift "knowledge" to cultures that are not our own
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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