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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
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(A)symmetries in the morphosyntax of embedded clauses in Khalkha Mongolian
Get PDFThis dissertation draws on original fieldwork data from two Mongolic languages – Khalkha Mongolian (henceforth Khalkha) and Kalmyk Oirat (henceforth Kalmyk) – to investigate issues pertaining to clausal nominalisation, syntactic locality, differential argument marking (DAM), and case assignment. The empirical focus is on four embedded clause types in Khalkha, supplemented by comparative data from Kalmyk. These clause types include three types of complement clauses – finite bare CPs, finite nominalised clauses (NCs), and nonfinite NCs – and one type of adjunct clause – converbial adjuncts. Chapter 2 provides a brief introduction to the Mongolic language family, fieldwork context, and the basic morphosyntactic profiles of Khalkha and Kalmyk.Chapter 3 shows that each of the four embedded clause types under consideration in Khalkha can be uniquely characterised along three dimensions: finiteness, nominalisation, and the presence or absence of a DP layer within the nominal superstructure. I argue that converbial adjuncts are small nominalised clauses in that they show evidence of both being nominalised and lacking a DP layer within the nominal superstructure above the clause. I further argue that, assuming some form of parallelism between clausal and nominal domains, NCs projecting a “smaller” nominal structure above a “larger” clausal structure are unattested both in Khalkha and cross-linguistically. I propose a novel explanation that links their absence to more general constraints on structure building formalised via the Williams Cycle.Chapter 4 investigates the distribution of embedded subjects across the four clause types, using diagnostics from long-distance extraction and cross-clausal binding. I argue that accusative subjects occupy the highest phase edge of embedded (nominalised) clauses, genitive subjects occupy Spec,nP within a full DP superstructure, and case-unmarked (“nominative”) subjects occupy Spec,TP of the embedded clause. A key finding is that binding and extraction differ in their locality domains: while extraction appears to obey phase-locality, binding appears to be possible out of nominal domains irrespective of the presence of nominal phases. This suggests that locality domains for extraction and binding may not uniformly align with locality domains imposed by a standard conception of phases.Chapter 5 shows that accusative-based DAM in Khalkha adheres to two similar but ultimately distinct referentiality scales. I propose a movement-based account of DAM that results in accusative objects being located in Spec,vP and accusative subjects being located in the highest phase edge of an embedded (nominalised) clause. Building on previous work, I argue that accusative is best analysed as a dependent case in Khalkha and show how it interacts with the movement-based account of DAM for dependent accusative case assignment on objects and subjects. Next, I discuss novel data from subjects of subject clauses in Khalkha that reveal that containment relations between nominals, in addition to local c-command ones, are relevant for dependent accusative case assignment. That containment relations are relevant for dependent accusative case assignment offers novel support for an Agree-based approach to dependent case over a configurational one. Under the Agree-based approach, accusative arises as the spell out of the features of a previous goal of Agree on another DP. I extend this analysis to account for genitive subjects in Khalkha, and show how it may offer an underlying explanation for the absence of case marking on certain objects and subjects in the language.Taken together, this dissertation demonstrates that a detailed investigation of clausal nominalisation not only contributes to our understanding of Mongolic morphosyntax, but also yields important insights into issues of broader theoretical significance in syntax, such as the interactions between clausal and nominal structure, syntactic locality, and dependent case theory
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
Social network structure, accommodation, and language change
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Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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