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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
The management of romantic disappointments as a gendered emotion work : between interpersonal support and institutional constraints
No full textSi la plupart des couples traversent des « moments de creux », tous ne se séparent pas. Cette idée selon laquelle toute décision de séparation est précédée d’une phase d’interprétation des déceptions est consensuelle en sociologie française. Cependant, le déroulement concret de ce travail d’interprétation est peu abordé dans la littérature. Il y apparait surtout comme une activité faite à un niveau individuel, dans une forme de négociation intérieure entre l’acteur social et une « culture du couple », légitimant plus ou moins ses envies de séparation. Si ce travail d’interprétation est donc bien conçu comme un phénomène social, il semble difficilement accessible aux sociologues. Cette thèse propose d’ouvrir la « boite noire » de ce travail d’interprétation. Elle le fait à l'aide d’une méthodologie mixte, croisant analyses quantitatives des données de l’Étude des Parcours Individuels et Conjugaux (Épic, Ined-Insee, 2013-2014) et une cinquantaine d’entretiens semi-directifs. Elle vise en particulier à montrer que les déceptions amoureuses ne sont pas gérées de la même manière par les individus en fonction de leur genre et de leur orientation sexuelle. Une première partie avance que la gestion des déceptions amoureuses gagne à être conçue comme un travail émotionnel collectif, impliquant le réseau de relations dans lequel le couple est préalablement encastré. Une seconde partie montre que cette gestion collective est genrée : hommes et femmes ne parlent pas de leurs déceptions dans les mêmes proportions ni aux mêmes personnes. Enfin, la troisième partie souligne que ce travail émotionnel collectif s’effectue sous des contraintes institutionnelles, elles-mêmes genréesWhile most couples go through “low points”, all of them do not separate. French sociologists seem to share the idea that any decision to separate is preceded by a phase of interpretation of romantic disappointments. However, the actual course of this interpretation work is little discussed within scientific literature. It primarily appears as an activity occurring at the individual level through internal negociations between the social agent and his/her “couple culture ”, which would or wouldn’t legitimate his or her decision to separate. If this interpretation work is thus regarded as a social phenomenon, it appears difficult for sociologists to access it. In this thesis I intend to open the “black box” of this interpretation work. In order to do so, this work relies on mixed methods, combining quantitative analyses from the “Etude des parcours individuels et conjugaux” survey (Epic survey, Ined-Insee, 2013-2014) and around fifty semi structured interviews. More specifically, the thesis aims to show that romantic disappointments are not managed in the same way by individuals depending on their gender and sexual orientation. I will argue first that the way individuals manage romantic disappointment should be conceived as a collective emotion work involving the couple’s network of relationships.I will then show that this collective management is gendered: neither do men and women talk about their romantic disappointments as extensively nor do they talk to the same people about it. Finally, I will underline that this collective emotion work takes place under institutional constraints which are themselves gendered
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
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