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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
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
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
The globalization of the Catholic Church: history, organization, theology
Full text linkIn this chapter we propose a three-dimensional analysis – historical, organizational and theological – of the globalization of the Catholic Church in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These three dimensions have evolved together to transform it from a mainly European-based organization into a global actor. The historical dimension concerns macro-historical changes like secularisation in Europe, the loss of temporal power of the popes, and global demographic trends. Continents like Latin America and Africa, which were once lands of evangelisation for European missionaries, now represent the bulk of Catholicity and are themselves promoting evangelisation elsewhere.
The organizational dimension includes major structural changes. Five of them stand out: the centralization of the election of bishops in the hands of the pope; a shift in the composition of the college of cardinals that elects the pope: this college, which used to be mainly European and particularly Italian, is now genuinely global; the organization of a diplomatic corps at the Holy See that helps to ensure political relations with a growing number of countries worldwide and representation at the UNO; the establishment of a wide network of charities and other Catholic NGOs that provide social assistance to people in need but also act as political and diplomatic actors and as a powerful network of information; relationships with the global media, a crucial point for the public image of the Church, which is high on Pope Francis’ agenda.
The theological level focuses on the Catholic doctrine as it appears in papal teachings. This teaching provides contents, guidelines and inspiration for the activities of Catholic communities and organizations worldwide. We will review five recurrent topics: human rights; family, sexuality and bioethics; migrants and refugees; economics; environment and climate change. Taken together, these issues contribute to forging a global Catholic teaching. For better or worse, this participation in the public sphere has helped greatly to increase the visibility of the Church and its influence in contemporary social and political processes.
The next challenges for the global Church include evangelisation and pastoral care, two issues at the top of Pope Francis’ agenda. Indeed, the Church is losing followers to the profit of Protestant and Pentecostal Churches, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Another crucial point concerns internal ideological divisions. The post-conciliar fracture between liberal and conservative Catholics is still not reconciled and may endanger the unity of the Church. The upsurge of new grassroots Catholic movements, from the loosely organized Charismatics to the strictly disciplined Neocatechumenal Way, also raises questions about the liturgical and doctrinal consistency of the various branches of the Church.
On the external front, inter-religious relations represent a crucial challenge for the twenty-first century. In a time when religion has become a major variable in international relations, the establishment of peaceful collaborations between the Catholic Church and other faiths, especially Islam, Judaism and Orthodox Christianity, seems particularly doubtful and delicate
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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