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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
Neoliberal globalisation and Latin American resistance : a neo-Gramscian perspective
Get PDFThis thesis deals with issues of power, class, conflict and identity. It deals, more specifically, with the democratic aspirations of peoples in Latin America who for centuries have been quietened and who have sporadically fought back to recover their voice. More specifically, it deals with the 'Pink Tide' phenomenon which has seen a wave of leftist governments elected in the region over the past decade, promising an end to 'savage neoliberalism' and a new era of political, economic and ideologically autonomy. The thesis explores the rise of the Pink Tide in the larger context of the rise and fall of the neoliberal globalisation project integral to U.S. hegemony in the post-Vietnam era. In doing so, it necessarily engages with the dominant analytical and political frames of understanding of the current world order derived from orthodox analyses of International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE), which propagate the 'common sense' notion that there is no alternative to this order. The thesis critically examines this orthodoxy in order to elucidate its conservative bias whose primary aim, it suggests, is to prevent those quietened from speaking for themselves. Instead, the thesis utilises a multidisciplinary approach, combining themes from IR, IPE, Latin American studies and the Marxian perspectives of Antonio Gramsci in particular, to explore the rise of the Pink Tide by examining its two most prominent members - Venezuela under Hugo Chavez and Brazil under Lula and Dilma Rousseff. The thesis proposes that, from a Gramscian perspective, their emergence can be understood as a response to the organic crisis of neoliberalism in Latin America underway since the late 1990s. In this context the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela represents a counter-hegemonic project that seeks to instil in the Venezuelan people a radical class consciousness, while the Brazilian project under Lula and Rousseff is better understood as a 'passive revolution' whose aim is to resecure consent for the neoliberal order by making significant material and ideological concession to the Brazilian masses. The relationship between these two projects, the thesis proposes, should be understood dialectically, in terms of the potentials for radical politics that emerge out of their interaction - potentials that are especially prominent at the regional level, where both countries are at the forefront of a process of regional integration that aims to make Latin America more politically, economically and ideologically autonomous in the neoliberal world order. All this is particularly significant for the U.S., given the importance of Latin America to its hegemonic status. However, over the past decade, the U.S. has found its ability to impose its will on the region diminishing, as it has become increasingly distracted by challenges to its hegemony from elsewhere around the globe. This situation, the thesis concludes, opens up all kinds of opportunities for a fairer, more prosperous and more democratic Latin America as the 21st century unfolds. -- provided by Candidate
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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