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Mr. Callanan Portrait, J.E. Greiner Company, Consulting Engineering Firm, P
No full textPortrait of Mr. Callanan wearing a suit and striped tie, posed in front of a plain backdrop.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gandy/7598/thumbnail.jp
John J. Callanan, Man-Devil: The Mind and Time of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe
No full textMan-Devil: The Mind and Time of Bernard Mandeville, The Wickedest Man in Europe is the best monograph on Bernard Mandeville in English. In it, John J. Callanan provides a complete account of Mandeville’s thought and its context. Throughout Man-Devil, the scope of Mandeville’s embeddedness in the social and intellectual milieu of 18th-century London is made clear. While the writer was not initially well-regarded, Callanan shows that, by the mid-1720s, Mandeville was on the minds of most in the Res Publica Litteraria. And despite the scant biographical material available, Callanan also succeeds in giving the reader a sense of Mandeville’s character, who comes across as cheerful, delighting in controversy and in exposing the hypocrisy of the moralists, but not as the “vicious and cruel sceptical misanthrope” he is often made out to be (p. 269
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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
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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Author Rights and Scholarly Publishing
No full textOriginally posted at
http://blog.library.gsu.edu/2014/10/24/author-rights-and-scholarly-publishing/</p
Is There Anybody Up There? The Human Presence on the Madonie Mountain Range (Sicily, Italy): From the Last Hunter-Gatherers to the Early Pastoralists
No full textThe Madonie Mountains, located in the northwestern part of Sicily, a central mountainous chain in the Mediterranean basin, offer an excellent case study to the investigation of the relationship among human peopling, environment, and consequent transformation of landscape over the millennia. The earliest direct evidence for the exploitation of the mountainous territories of Sicily is dated to 9450±50 BP (9120–8565 cal BCE). After a gap, the Neolithic communities that were the first to push inland and into mountainous territories were involved in economic practices that mainly included the breeding of sheep and goats. At the Vallone Inferno rock-shelter a long and complete sequence of more than 1,000 years, beginning at the end of the third millennium BCE, shows the development of pastoral activities carried out on the mountain territories by human communities coming from the central and southern part of the island. The historical occupation of the Madonie was largely influenced by the Greek colony of Himera and the subsequent Roman settlement. The exploitation of medium- and high-altitude areas (above 700 m asl) is linked to activities related to pastoralism, in connection/combination with rural settlements in the plains. Specialized activities carried out on the mountains, such as breeding of pigs, have been recognized during the seventh and ninth centuries CE
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