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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
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
L'exigència de puresa de sang per part dels col·legis i confraries d'oficis en la Barcelona moderna
No full textMaria Àngels Clotet i Miró, Besora. L'Església del Pla de la roca tallada i els Miró de Navès, Solsona, Gràfiques Muval, 2018, 169 p.
Get PDFFour trials of infractions by agreements in Catalonia sent to the kings of France (1642-1647)
No full textL’any 1641, les institucions representatives de Catalunya es van subjectar a la Corona de França sota diverses condicions pactades amb Lluís XIII, principalment el respecte dels drets i les llibertats dels catalans. Per garantir aquest respecte o observança, s’implementà un mecanisme sui generis de caràcter mixt i paritari: unes comissions de tretze jutges, la meitat dels quals serien oficials de la monarquia i l’altra meitat, elegits entre els tres estaments, d’ací que s’anomenin paccionats —com a reflex del pacte entre rex i regnum. Amb la peculiaritat que, tractant-se d’un nombre total de jutges imparell, se n’alternarien set i sis —al primer judici—, sis i set —al segon—, etc. Així, disminuïa el risc de parcialitat en l’avaluació de si un acte comès per un oficial reial constituïa contrafacció —és a dir, si havia vulnerat alguna norma del país. Malgrat les dificultats contextuals —la potència i el tarannà autoritari de la Corona francesa, la fragilitat de Catalunya davant la monarquia hispànica, de la qual s’havia separat i el context de guerra internacional—, el mecanisme va funcionar en quatre ocasions entre 1642 i 1647. Van ser poques, però amb una significació política enorme.In 1641, the representative institutions of Catalonia were considered a protectorate of the French Crown subject to several conditions agreed with Louis XIII, mainly regarding the rights and freedoms of the Catalan people. To ensure this respect or observance, a sui generis mechanism was implemented of a mixed and representative nature: a series of commissions of thirteen judges, half of which would be officials of the monarchy and the other half chosen from among the three social stratum. They were thus called agreements — as a reflection of the pact between rex and regnum. But with the peculiarity that, being an uneven total number of judges, they alternated seven and six — in the first trial, six and seven — in the second — and so on. It thus decreased the risk of partiality if an action undertaken by a royal official constituted an infraction, that is, having breached one of the country’s regulations. Despite the contextual difficulties — the power and authoritarian character of the French crown, the fragility of Catalonia before the Hispanic Monarchy from which it had separated and in the context of international war — the mechanism was used on four occasions between 1642 and 1647. Just a few occasions, but with a massive political significance
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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