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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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Islam between modernity and coloniality; an international legal history of Iran from the late Qajar period to Pahlavism
No full textFrom the time of colonization and imperialism, interactions between the lands and people informed by Islam and the Western world have remained tumultuous. With the recent uprisings in the Arab world, what we have seen from the West was an incapacity to consider Islam as a rational narrative basis for the establishment of a modern society. Indeed, from the repressive legal apparatuses and technologies of the "War on Terror" to the more ideological process of intervention and "democratic" state-building, there has been a contradiction in the language and actions of the West, especially with regards to international law. The fault line of this contradiction has oscillated between favouring the free expression of people, which often leaned towards Islam, and the ambivalent desire to not let Islam become a central political and normative pillar regulating societies of the Middle East. Why would it be that the agency of particular actors informed by, but not reducible to Islam be left aside of the discourses and narratives of international law? This thesis will seek to demystify this question by focussing on the epistemic privilege of the West to narrate the ontology of an Other informed by Islam through international legal means. In this inquiry, I wish to understand how international law, through its biases, modes of operation and technologies, is able to deny knowledges and formulations of Being specific to the non-Western Other. In order to do this, my investigation will look at this question through the interactions of Persia (and its successor, Iran), as an actor informed (although again, not reducible to) Islam, and the West in 19th and early 20th century international law. This interrogation is, I think, central to our present due to the importance of the Middle East and Islam in the global setting and the rising power of states informed by Islam such as Iran, Indonesia and Malaysia, amongst others.Depuis le temps de la colonisation et de l'impérialisme, les interactions entre les terres et peuples influencés par l'Islam et le monde occidental sont demeurées tumultueuses. Avec les récents soulèvements populaires qualifiés de « Printemps arabe », nous avons pu observer de la part de la société internationale une incapacité à concevoir l'Islam comme fondement narratif pour l'établissement de sociétés modernes. En effet, de l'usage d'appareils et technologies légales répressives tels que la « Guerre contre le terrorisme », jusqu'aux variantes idéologiques du processus d'intervention et de « state-building » démocratique, on remarque une contradiction immanente dans l'usage du langage du droit international par les États occidentaux. La ligne de fracture de cette contradiction oscille entre le support pour la liberté d'expression des peuples, qui a dans plusieurs cas mené à une variante politique de l'Islam, et le désire ambivalent de ne pas laisser l'Islam devenir un fondement politico-normatif des sociétés du Moyen-Orient.Pourquoi alors, dans le système libéral la capacité de représentation politique et normative d'acteurs particuliers influencés par l'Islam serait laissée hors des discours et narrations du droit international? Ce mémoire de recherche vise à démystifier cette question en portant l'attention sur ce que j'appelle le privilège épistémique de l'Occident, permettant de faire la narration de l'ontologie de l'Autre à travers des moyens légaux fournis par le droit international. Je proposerai une analyse de cette question à travers les interactions légales ayant marqué l'Occident et le monde informé par l'Islam, ici centré sur la Perse et son successeur, l'Iran, dans le droit international du 19ième et du début du 20ième siècle. Cette interrogation, je crois, est centrale pour le monde contemporain vu la centralité du Moyen-Orient et de l'Islam dans les affaires mondiales et la montée en puissance d'États musulmans, notamment l'Iran, l'Indonésie et la Malaisie
Labour Rights and the Canada/Colombia FTA : A Fundamentally Flawed Culture
No full textFrom talks around the issue of the Generalized System of Preferences and more recent talks on bilateral and multilateral FTAs, the linkage between the promotion of universal labour rights and trade has been on the agenda of policy makers, and integrated into most FTAs. In the case of the recent Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), Canadian officials negotiated the inclusion of a side agreement on labour cooperation (ALC) in order to deepen ties between the two countries, and support Colombian workers, who face severe repression by government and paramilitary forces. The current essay will bring forward and deepen the critiques formulated by civil society actors against CCFTA, and argue that the guarantees given by the agreement and the ALC are fundamentally flawed using an examination of the underlying meaning of the words of the agreement. By taking a structural approach, it will be argued that the general culture and habitus developed through the interests and usage of symbolic capital of structural actors have a central effect on the FTA and its ALC by completely altering the meaning of their language. Such a critique offers a relevant standpoint in the context of the on-going discussions revolving around the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the general expansion of global integration through FTAs.Des négociations entourant la question du Système des préférences généralisées et de discussions plus récentes pour la conclusion d'accords de libre-échange bilatéraux et multilatéraux, la question du lien causal entre la promotion d'un droit du travail universel et le commerce est demeurée d'actualité. Dans le récent cas du Traité de libre-échange Canada-Colombie (TLÉCC), les autorités canadiennes ont lié au document un accord parallèle pour la coopération dans le domaine du travail (APCDT) dans le but d'accroitre les liens entre les deux États et d'ainsi supporter les travailleurs colombiens, oeuvrant dans un contexte de répression constante par les forces gouvernementales et paramilitaires. Toutefois, le présent essai optera pour une approche critique qui proposera et développera les oppositions de la société civile au TLÉCC en avançant que les garanties légales accordées par le traité et l'APCDT sont fondamentalement biaisées, et ce en regardant les structures de significations langagières sous-jacentes au texte. En prenant un point de vue structuraliste, il sera proposé que la culture générale et l'habitus qui se sont développés par les interactions structurelles des acteurs en cause et l'usage de leur capital symbolique ont eu un effet central sur le sens du TLÉCC et de son APCDT en altérant complètement le sens de leur langage. Une telle perspective est d'actualité dans le contexte présent des négociations sur le Partenariat Trans-Pacifique, et de la croissance de l'intégration économique mondiale à travers les traités de libre-échange.Cardinal Pierre-Alexandre. Labour Rights and the Canada/Colombia FTA : A Fundamentally Flawed Culture. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, volume 26-1, 2013. pp. 1-31
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