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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
The Two Pictures Cycles in Early Manuscripts of St Anselm’s Prayers. Illuminating the Middle Ages: Tributes to Prof. John Lowden from his Students, Friends and Colleagues, eds Laura Cleaver, Alixe Bovey and Lucy Donkin (Leiden 2020),
No full textTwo distinct series of miniatures are identified accompanying early manuscripts of St Anselm's Prayers. Both originate in the circle of the author himself but register his changing attitudes in a turbulent period of his life. The first c.1100 is political and strongly pro-papal, the second c.1104 focuses on the individual's experience of God
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Mythical Legends, Moralising Commentaries: The Intertwining of the Sacred and Secular in Fourteenth-Century French Arthurian Manuscripts and Ivories
No full textAlthough today King Arthur is widely perceived as a figure of British origin, likely due in part to Arthur?s inclusion in Geoffrey of Monmouth?s twelfth-century text, Historia Regnum Britanniae, the Arthurian legends were extremely popular in late medieval France, evidenced by the poems of French troubadour Chr?tien de Troyes, the anonymous Vulgate Cycle, lavishly illuminated manuscripts, and finely carved ivories. The Arthurian legends have long been the topic of literary studies, however medieval images of the legends have received scant attention. An art historical exploration of the French fascination with these legends is thus long overdue. My thesis will aim to fill this gap in Arthurian studies, focussing on a selection of understudied manuscripts and ivories. I will consider why the French nobility were so enamoured with King Arthur and his court, and what inspired them to commission such lavishly decorated manuscripts and ivories. I will argue that the images? multivalent significance is rooted in their dual role as secular, yet moralising, images for French audiences. A central theme of my thesis is the blurred boundaries between the sacred and secular in French Arthurian imagery. By concentrating on the Grail-centred, and most inherently religious, French Arthurian legends, Chr?tien de Troyes? Le Conte du Graal (circa 1190), and the Vulgate Cycle?s La Queste del saint Graal (circa 1215-30), I will elucidate the visual intertwining of the sacred and secular as seen through the depiction of the Holy Grail and its related characters. I will argue that these two legends personify the ?cross-fertilisation? of the sacred and secular in late medieval French visual culture in particular, and in French courtly culture and society in general. Although the legends were ostensibly romances, there are throughout undercurrents of religiosity and morality, which, when translated into visual form, speak to the images? duality as both secular and sacred illustrations
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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