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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
"On account of you I have no translator!" Michael Chabon and Cynthia Ozick's Literary Conceptions of Intergenerational Yiddishlands
No full textFor over a century, the Yiddish language has been seen as dead or in a perpetual state of dying, placing Yiddish on a version of what Anthropocene theorist Thom van Dooren calls the “dull edge of extinction,” the long process of unravelling ways of life until the end of a being’s lineage. One response proposed by Jeffrey Shandler is the “Yiddish postvernacular,” stating that while Yiddish is diminishing as a spoken language, it perpetuates among Ashkenazim as a heritage object due to its immense symbolic value. Written nearly forty years apart, Cynthia Ozick’s novella “Envy; or, Yiddish in America” (1969) and Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007) both comment on this conception of Yiddish as always-almost-dead. “Envy” tells the story of the fictional Yiddish poet Edelshtein, who champions Yiddish and grows aggressive and despairing as he is unable to find someone to translate his work into English. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is a counterfactual novel set in a Yiddish-speaking community in Sitka, Alaska, on the verge of being reverted to the United States and its evangelical president. The texts combine to tell a story of an intergenerational exchange of Yiddish, with a disappearing language and a failed Messiah in each work. Yet by using the language as a plot object, they are perpetuating a postvernacular futurity for Yiddish, inviting readers into Yiddishland through the act of collective linguistic mourning
New men for a new world: reconstituted masculinities in Jewish-Russian literature (1903 – 1925)
Get PDFThis Master’s thesis explores Jewish masculinity and identity within early twentieth-century literature (1903-1925), using texts written by Jewish authors in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. This was a period of change for Russia’s Jewish community, involving increased secularization and reform, massive pogroms such as in Kishinev in 1903, newfound leadership within the 1905 and 1917 Revolutions, and a rise in both Zionist and Revolutionary ideology. Subsequently, Jewish literary masculinity experienced a significant shift in characterization. Historically, a praised Jewish man had been portrayed as gentle, scholarly, and faithful, yet early twentieth century Jewish male literary figures were asked to be physically strong, hypermasculine, and secular.
This thesis first uses H.N. Bialik’s “In the City of Slaughter” (1903) and Sholem Aleichem’s “Tevye Goes to Palestine” (1914) to introduce a concept of “Jewish shame,” or a sentiment that historical Jewish masculinity was insufficient for a contemporary Russian world. It then creates two models for these new men to follow. The Assimilatory Jew, seen in Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry cycle (published throughout the 1920s), held that perpetual outsider Jewish men should imitate the behaviour of a secular whole in order to be accepted. The Jewish Superman is depicted in Vladimir Jabotinsky’s “In Memory of Herzl” (1904) and Ilya Selvinsky’s “Bar Kokhba” (1920), and argues that masculine glory is entirely compatible with a proud Jewish identity, without an external standard needed. Judith Butler’s theories on gender performativity are used to analyze these diverse works, published in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian by authors of varying political alignments, to establish commonalities among these literary canons and plot a new spectrum of desired identities for Jewish men.Graduate2020-04-1
The Bloodless Diaspora: Queering Genealogy to Resist Assimilation into Whiteness in Twenty-First Century Media
No full textMy project proposes a new way of interpreting the natures of diaspora and belonging in early twenty-first century literature, film, and other media in North America. The literature of migrants and their North American-born descendants often traffics in tropes of cultural identity, biological inheritance of communal membership, and establishing binaries between “old world” and “new world” that their characters seek to recreate. Ultimately these authors and their disaffected descendants become estranged from their homeland and acculturate and assimilate more rapidly into white North American normativities. My paper introduces the concept of the bloodless diaspora to combat systematic assimilation into social and political whiteness. I use queer genealogical practices to suggest that one’s sense of belonging to a diasporic community can be forged not just through a birthed inheritance, but by creating intimate links with diasporic figures past, present, and future and forming a chosen family or chosen ancestry. I look at literature and film from three different diasporas, Arab-North American, Ashkenazi Jewish-North American, and Chinese-North American, to illustrate diaspora as a shared, active literary and communal practice, rather than a condition into which you are born. Ultimately, the bloodless diaspora resists the ever-present gaze or normative, North American whiteness and uses speculative storytelling to craft a potent imagined community
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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