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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

    Rotas caribenhas: etnografia, mobilidade e conhecimento

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    Unavailable.Em inglês roots (raízes) e routes (rotas) se pronunciam da mesma forma: ruts. Este livro, Rotas caribenhas, bem poderia se chamar ruts caribenhas, porque seus artigos se movimentam pendularmente entre essas categorias. O movimento é realizado sempre na evocação de novos movimentos e, simultaneamente, na evocação das origens. Assim se dão as experiências retratadas nas etnografias, onde a circulação de pessoas, bens, informações, divindades, artefatos e substâncias constroem as relações e se fazem na permeabilidade mútua. Acompanhamos itinerários compósitos de mobilidade e migração, cartografias onde parentesco e solidariedade se amalgamam com a esperança e a incerteza. Percebemos o quanto espacialidades e territórios se fazem a partir de narrativas sobre tempos. Entendemos que ancestrais, espíritos e os pertencimentos que propiciam vivem nas paisagens cognitivas, políticas e afetivas, possibilitando agências, negociações e reinvenções. Este é um livro que mostra a memória da colonização e da plantation, mas também as suas torções e sua recusa. E vem contribuir para a consolidação de um campo de pesquisa no Brasil: a Antropologia sobre o Caribe, ou sobre os caribes, em textos em que as perspectivas antropológicas clássicas dialogam com a produção caribeanista, sempre em polifonia com categorias e teorias nativas

    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

    Of virus and hunters, an interview with Frédéric Keck (versão em inglês)

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    Frédéric Keck is one of the main figures of the contemporary anthropology of biosecurity. He graduated in philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at the Université Lille-III, also in France. After an experience at the University of California, Berkeley, he migrated to anthropology under the influence of Paul Rabinow. In the field of intellectual history, he published several works on the development of French anthropology and its relationship with philosophy, exploring the ide..

    Um lugar para os espíritos : os sentidos do movimento desde de um povoado haitiano

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    Este texto propõe uma abordagem sobre como pensar o protagonismo de espíritos e outros seres não-humanos tanto no âmbito das sociabilidades, como no papel que tais entidades exercem na construção de conceitos e reflexões sobre o movimento. Por meio de uma análise de duas situações sociais, busco trazer à tona uma sensibilidade política e uma profundidade histórica que envolvem diferentes agências e seres e constituem uma cultura política própria aos moradores do povoado e àqueles que se movimentam. Espera-se, com isso, contribuir com os estudos sobre migração e mobilidade, chamando a atenção para as formas como os próprios agente constrõem essas práticas em uma chave histórica e estrutural, cuja matriz contribui para o enfrentamento de situações contemporâneas

    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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