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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
An ethnographic study of Scottish Gaelic language revitalisation and nature conservation in the Western Isles
Get PDFThis thesis is an investigation of the tensions and confluences between the revitalisation of
Scottish Gaelic and the conservation of nature in Uist, a region within the Western Isles. The
islands are home to internationally important biodiversity as well as the densest population
of Scottish Gaelic speakers remaining in the world. The thesis considers the question of how
it comes to be that the conservation of nature and the revitalisation of Gaelic do not often
work together effectively. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Uist, the study
draws on participant observation and interviews with a wide variety of island residents,
including fishers, crofters, artists, government employees, land managers, conservationists,
and others, as well as social media and documentary analysis. The thesis itself juxtaposes
problems of language politics and resource management under six classic anthropological
themes which provide a framework for analysis: community, nature, writing, classifying,
indigeneity, and prediction. Each of these themes creates a discursive space in which the
worldbuilding practices of a variety of actors can be considered in relation to Gaelic and
nature, while engaging with debates in environmental and linguistic anthropology. I argue
that the mismatch between Gaelic and nature conservation has two major causes: the first
is in the core concepts of environmental governance – nature and community – which have
their roots in oppressive structures which have been damaging to island lifeways and do not
match with islander experiences. The second is that nature conservation draws on
epistemological traditions which exclude minority languages and other ways of knowing.
Finally, the thesis demonstrates the ways in which similar discourses are utilised in both
Gaelic and Nature conservation and considers their relative efficacy: it is argued that a
politics of hopelessness ironically offers an example of a discursive symbiosis between the
two
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
\u27Alive with Seals\u27: Seal-Fishery Conflict and the Conservation Conversation in Ireland
No full textThis article presents Irish fishers’ perspectives on seal-fishery interaction as perceived increase in the population of seals causes a variety of issues including depredation of fish and damage to gear. The piece will juxtapose the fishers’ own understandings with an analysis of national public discussions of the seal-fishery problem over the past year as some developments have been made in the government’s willingness to engage with the issue. Grounded in recent developments of an anthropology beyond the human, this piece reflects on how anthropological knowledge can contribute to contemporary conversations around natural resource conservation in Ireland
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