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Leggo! Studies presented to Frederick Mario Fales on the occasion of his 65th birthday
No full textA set of 55 articles by 55 scholars dealing with the history and the culture of Assyria and the Neo-Assyrian empire, the Aramaic and Semitic languages, the Semitic world in the Classical period
Greetings
No full textThis brief paper includes the greetings of the Chair of the Melammu project to the participants in the 64the Rencontre Assyriologique International and 12th Melammu Symposium held in Innsbruck in 2018 and some thoughts devoted to the importance of the Near Eastern heritage to later cultures
Gilgamesh on the Couch. The Mesopotamian Hero and Psychoanalysis
No full textAfter almost two thousand years of oblivion, his rediscovery at the end of the 19th century led to Gilgamesh’s resurrection, and – as it had been in the ancient Near Eastern world – he quickly once more became part of the collective imagination. That was because epic poetry’s themes are universal, and its imagery is somehow shared by the entire world, so it is not strange that subjects like the complex relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu or the fear of death appealed to the founders of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. The latter in particular found deep inspiration in the figure of Gilgamesh: he used him to explain his idea of the collective unconscious and theory of archetypes and even portrayed him in one of his central works, the socalled Red Book. The paper aims to outline the relationship between Gilgamesh and psychoanalysis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Settlement Pattern and Historical Evidence. The Northern Lebanon Project and the area of Tripoli/Koura during the second and first millennium BC
No full textThe short paper gives a quick summary of the results obtained during the first survey season of the Northern Lebanon Project that is focused on the regional settlement pattern of the northern and inner Koura area
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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