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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
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković and Monica Huțanu, The Vlachs of Eastern Serbia: Language and Society. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023, 256 p.
No full textPublished as volume 3 of the series
“VLACH” (Vanishing Languages and
Cultural Heritage), initiated by the eponymous
commission headed by anthropologist
Thede Kahl (Director of the Institute
of South Slavic Studies at the Jena
University) and approved by the Austrian
Academy of Sciences Publication Committee,
this book offers a dense and pioneering
sociolinguistic contribution on
the Romance-speaking inhabitants of
Eastern Serbia in contemporary history
(1940–2025)
A Historiographical Survey of ”Ius Valachicum” among Romanians and Vlachs
Get PDFThe purpose of our study is to investigate the current state of research regarding Ius Valachicum in Romanian and foreign historiography. After presenting Romanian history, palaeography and the legal history of the Carpatho-Danubian space, we turn to the Polish historiography of the North Vlachs, with respect to the Serbo-Croatian historiography of the South Vlachs. Finally, we use case studies to illustrate two enacted customary laws of the Vlachs from Croatia. The methods used in this paper include description, analysis, and comparison, as well as exploratory and applied research. The article is a historiographical survey of Ius Valachicum among the Romanians and Vlachs. The medieval and premodern consuetudinary laws of the Romanians and Vlachs are reflected both in primary and secondary sources, from 14thcentury historical documents to historiographical preoccupations dedicated to Ius Vlachicum from the 18thand 19th centuries. First, we refer to the special literature explaining both ethnonyms and the historical-geographical spread of the Romanians and Vlachs. Then we present the Romanian historiography investigating the manifestations and features of Ius Valachicum in the geographical area belonging to the present-day Romanian state. Turning to the Czech and Polish historiography, the occurrence of Ius Valachicum is revealed among the North Vlachs from medieval and premodern Poland, Ruthenia, and Hungary. We also review the Serbo-Croatian historiography of the Ius Valachicum specific to the South Vlachs from Croatia and Serbia. Finally, two enacted customary laws of the Vlachs from Croatia (1436, 1630) are analysed from the point of view of legal history. These codifications of Ius Valachicum prove the juridical power and importance acquired by the Croatian Vlachs during the Middle Ages. The historiographical pros and cons, as well as the critical remarks presented at the end of this study, at the same time, offer a few methodological solutions for future investigations of Romanian and Vlach Ius Valachicum.The purpose of our study is to investigate the current state of research regarding Ius Valachicum in Romanian and foreign historiography. After presenting Romanian history, palaeography and the legal history of the Carpatho-Danubian space, we turn to the Polish historiography of the North Vlachs, with respect to the Serbo-Croatian historiography of the South Vlachs. Finally, we use case studies to illustrate two enacted customary laws of the Vlachs from Croatia. The methods used in this paper include description, analysis, and comparison, as well as exploratory and applied research. The article is a historiographical survey of Ius Valachicum among the Romanians and Vlachs. The medieval and premodern consuetudinary laws of the Romanians and Vlachs are reflected both in primary and secondary sources, from 14thcentury historical documents to historiographical preoccupations dedicated to Ius Vlachicum from the 18thand 19th centuries. First, we refer to the special literature explaining both ethnonyms and the historical-geographical spread of the Romanians and Vlachs. Then we present the Romanian historiography investigating the manifestations and features of Ius Valachicum in the geographical area belonging to the present-day Romanian state. Turning to the Czech and Polish historiography, the occurrence of Ius Valachicum is revealed among the North Vlachs from medieval and premodern Poland, Ruthenia, and Hungary. We also review the Serbo-Croatian historiography of the Ius Valachicum specific to the South Vlachs from Croatia and Serbia. Finally, two enacted customary laws of the Vlachs from Croatia (1436, 1630) are analysed from the point of view of legal history. These codifications of Ius Valachicum prove the juridical power and importance acquired by the Croatian Vlachs during the Middle Ages. The historiographical pros and cons, as well as the critical remarks presented at the end of this study, at the same time, offer a few methodological solutions for future investigations of Romanian and Vlach Ius Valachicum
Enacted “Jus Valachicum” in South Transylvania (14th-18th Centuries)
Get PDFThe case studies presented in our approach analyse from the perspective of legal history several medieval and premodern historical documents. They reflect enactments of the Jus Valachicum in South Transylvania among the Romanians living on the Saxon Land, in Mărginimea Sibiului, and in its vicinity, in the citadel and Land of Făgăraş. Illustrations and prescriptions of enacted Romanian customary law are included in: the Romanian-Saxon peace convention of Cristian (13 January 1383); the protocol of the seat of Sălişte (16th-18th centuries); Constitutio gremialis Sedis Szeliste (1585); Cartea ocolniță from Răşinari (22 May 1488); Transmissionales in causa Possesionis Resinar contra Liberam Regiamque Civitatem Cibiniensem (1784); the Jura (Rights) of Răşinari (15th-18th centuries); the Statutes of Făgăraş (15 May 1508). These enactments of Jus Valachicum abolish the bias of a strictly oral, unwritten and unstructured Romanian customary law. They also confirm de iure the legal situation extant de facto, thus proving the long uninterrupted use of Jus Valachicum among the South-Transylvanian Romanians during the 14th-18th centuries.
Article history: Received 25.05.2022; Revised: 26.07.2022; Accepted: 26.07.2022; Available online: 15.09.2022
Rezumat: Codificări ale lui “Jus Valachicum” în sudul Transilvaniei (secolele XIV-XVIII). Studiile de caz prezentate în demersul nostru analizează din perspectiva istoriei dreptului câteva izvoare istorice medievale şi premoderne. Acestea reflectă codificări ale lui Jus Valachicum în sudul Transilvaniei, la românii locuitori ai Pământului Săsesc, în Mărginimea Sibiului, şi în vecinătatea acestuia, în cetatea şi în Țara Făgăraşului. Ilustrările şi prescripțiile acestor codificări ale legii cutumiare româneşti sunt cuprinse în: convenția de pace româno-săsească de la Cristian (13 ianuarie 1383); protocolul scaunului de lege din Sălişte (secolele XVI-XVIII); Constitutio gremialis Sedis Szeliste (1585); Cartea ocolniță din Răşinari (22 mai 1488); Transmissionales in causa Possesionis Resinar contra Liberam Regiamque Civitatem Cibiniensem (1784); Jura (drepturile) satului Răşinari (secolele XV-XVIII); Statutele Făgăraşului (15 mai 1508). Exemplificarea codificărilor lui Jus Valachicum aboleşte ideea preconcepută a unui drept obişnuielnic românesc exclusiv oral, nescris şi nestructurat. Totodată este confirmată de iure situația juridică existentă de facto, atestând astfel uzul îndelungat şi neîntrerupt al lui Jus Valachicum la românii din sudul Transilvaniei de-a lungul secolelor XIV-XVIII.
Cuvinte-cheie: Jus Valachicum, codificări ale dreptului cutumiar românesc, sudul Transilvaniei, Mărginimea Sibiului, Țara Făgăraşului, secolele XIV-XVIII
Ethnogonical Myths and Historical Imaginary Regarding the Genesis of the Romanians and Vlachs
Get PDFThe study offers a presentation of the ethnogonical myths and historical imaginary regarding the genesis of the Romanians and Vlachs by successive micro-analyses dedicated to the topic. Thus, we analyse: 1. the specific terminology used in this approach (ethnogony, ethnogenesis, eponym heroes, ethnonyms, endonym and exonym, mythonym); 2. the historical and mythical sources of the Romanian ”dismounting” (descălecat) and the evolution of the scholars’ preoccupations dedicated to the genesis of the Romanians; 3. the study case of the ethnogonical myth of the eponym heroes Roman and Vlahata, compared to further medieval legends about people founding brothers, based on the foreign written testimonies and on pan-Romanian ethnogonical ballads and legends; 4. the mythical significance attributed to Romanian ethnogony, comprising the utilitarian function, the spiritual meaning, the moral responsibility and the transcendental sense connected with the foundation of the people, as well as the historical imaginary of the Romanian ethnogenesis, insisting on: the ontological value of the name by which people found their existence, the politicization of geography and the nationalization of geographical differences, the teleological interpretation with regard to the Romanian ethnogenesis and the Vlach ”colonization”.
Rezumat: Mituri etnogonice şi imaginar istoric privind geneza românilor şi vlahilor. Studiul ce înfăţişează miturile etnogonice şi imaginarul istoric privind geneza românilor şi vlahilor conţine o succesiune de microanalize dedicate subiectului. Sunt analizate: 1. terminologia specifică utilizată în demersul de faţă (etnogonie, etnogeneză, eroi eponimi, etnonime, endonim şi exonim, mitonim); 2. izvoarele istorice şi mitice ale descălecatului românesc şi evoluţia preocupărilor savante dedicate genezei românilor; 3. studiul de caz al mitului etnogonic despre eroii eponimi Roman şi Vlahata, prin comparaţie cu alte legende medievale despre fraţii întemeietori de popoare, în baza atât a mărturiilor scrise străine, cât şi a baladelor şi legendelor etnogonice panromâneşti; 4. semnificaţiile mitice ale etnogoniei româneşti, incluzând funcţia utilitară, rostul spiritual, responsabilitatea morală şi sensul transcendent atribuite întemeierii neamului, precum şi imaginarul istoric al etnogenezei româneşti, cu referire la: valoarea ontologică a numelui cu care popoarele îşi întemeiază existenţa, politizarea geografiei şi naţionalizarea diferenţelor geografice, interpretarea teleologică a etnogenezei româneşti şi a ”colonizării” vlahe.
Cuvinte-cheie: mituri etnogonice, imaginar istoric, Roman şi Vlahata, etnogeneza românească, ”colonizarea” vlahă
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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