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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
Le management des politiques de L'Union Européenne
No full textISBN 978-2-7497-0096-0International audienceSwatridge, Colin. “Review of Le management des politiques de l’Union Européenne, by Michel Labori and Simion Costea. PARIS, Prodifmultimedia, 2011, 304 p.” Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Historia 11 (2011): 330–334. Tîrgu Mureș: Editura Universității „Petru Maior”. ISSN 1582-8433.Classic ConcernsOne does not pick up a book having such a title for a spot of light reading – but if it is a book that brings you up to speed on current EU concerns that you want, this book will not disappoint. It is a book that is very much the sum of its parts, inasmuch as each of its sixteen chapters fastens upon a different issue, or set of issues, confronting EU policy-makers within the present boundaries of the Union, and beyond those boundaries.At the same time, it does project a vision of the Union that transcends these parts and these issues: a Union conscious of itself as an organization whose destiny it is to grow.This growth is not merely in numbers of members – though the book celebrates and reckons with a membership that few politicians in 1957 can have dreamt of; as the EU grows territorially, up to and perhaps beyond the limits of what might once have been thought of as the continent of Europe, so it grows in influence and ambition.The first chapters focus on what might be called the "classic" concerns of the Union: competition, regional policy (the systemic tension between the centre and the periphery), the Common Agricultural Policy, and the associated "problem" of rural development. The reader of these chapters ought not to expect a fast-paced narrative – the text is marked by lists, statistics, and acronyms; it is eminently navigable, nevertheless. A plentiful provision of subheadings serve as groynes to break up the tide of facts; and emboldenings give prominence to salient points, for example:“The Common Agricultural Policy in 2000 accounted for 44% of EU expenditure and the European Regional and Cohesion Policy accounted for 35%”,or“Romania is the country with the highest percentage of people actively involved in agriculture (40%)”.For the student of EU institutions, in particular, there is a wealth of precise information concerning treaties, policies, and programmes; and an apparatus of references and bibliographic information rounds off every chapter.Climate and Energy PolicyBeyond these classic concerns there follow chapters on EU policy relating to climate change and energy. Here, the authors begin to run on a rather longer leash: a recital of facts, figures, names, and dates gives way to reasoned argument. Why, they ask, was the climate conference held in Copenhagen just before Christmas in 2009 such a "fiasco"? The reasons they give spare no one:The United States and China were not prepared to alter their positions;Denmark’s management of the conference was incompetent;UN bureaucracy bore down too heavily on the proceedings;The EU failed to play a leading role in the negotiations.Since this is a book about the EU, though, it is the EU that comes in for particular criticism: in regard to the proposal that countries commit themselves to a reduction of 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, for example, there was no progress at Copenhagen because the member countries of the EU could not, or would not, agree among themselves. No one member country is prepared to take the initiative for fear that its neighbors will enjoy an economic advantage. It is vital, say the authors, that the EU coordinate its efforts in the crusade against global warming if it is to influence world opinion, as it must.The energy question is stated even more starkly, because concretely: the EU imports 80% of its oil and 50% of its natural gas. By 2030, it will need to import 90% of its oil (50% of it from OPEC countries) and 65% of its natural gas (42% of it from Russia). Dependency of this sort makes the EU very vulnerable to an interruption of supply such as that suffered by Ukraine in January 2006, when Russia turned off the tap until its neighbor paid its dues. As in the global warming context, so in the related context of energy supply, EU members must act in concert if the lights are to remain on.The EU had its origins in a common coal and steel policy, but in recent years, member states have marched under their own flags where energy policy is concerned. Labori and Costea are unequivocal in the warning that they issue, and in the course that they recommend: climate and energy policies must be combined in a practical policy binding all 27 member states. Where energy is concerned, this must involve a commitment to the Nabucco Project, to ensure the supply of gas from Central Asia in a pipeline that bypasses Russia; a parallel commitment to partnership with Russia in energy (and other) matters; and the opening-up of supply lines of gas from North and West Africa.Europe’s NeighboursIt is acknowledged that the EU expanded a little too far, and a little too fast, for comfort: the Lisbon Treaty is barely up to the huge task of adapting its 20th-century institutions to 21st-century needs. Nevertheless, the 12 new members of the EU, of 2004 and 2007, brought with them new neighbours. Thus, the "neighbourhood" of Europe now includes Croatia and other Balkan countries, Turkey, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova – and the Mediterranean, that until recently has been thought of as a natural European frontier, is perceived (not least as a result of what has happened in Tunisia and Libya) as just one more border to cross.Together with Russia – which already has a special relationship with the EU – no fewer than 16 nations, from Morocco to Azerbaijan, qualify as partners in the struggle against terrorism and human trafficking. The EU has an interest in their evolution as democracies, as functioning market economies, and as societies in which human rights are both respected on paper and protected on the ground.Eastern PartnershipLabori and Costea devote the longest chapter in the book (Chapter 10), and the following chapter, to EU relations with the countries in Eastern Europe that were satellites of the USSR until 1989, and that, to some extent, remain within the Russian sphere of influence: Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova. One of the EU’s most significant geopolitical objectives is to make of these six republics a "circle of friends" that comes to respect European values and cooperates with the EU in advancing security, stability, and prosperity across the region. This is the so-called Eastern Partnership, launched in Prague in May 2009.The authors warn the negotiations with the six republics are especially delicate for three reasons:Each of the six republics is troubled by democratic legitimacy, human rights, and energy dependence;Russia is suspicious of, even hostile toward, any prejudice to its own interests;EU leaders themselves have different priorities: Germany may promote the Eastern Partnership, while France is more focused on its ties to the Maghreb.A Romanian PerspectiveIt will be of interest to Romanian readers that the authors – perhaps Simion Costea in particular – see Romania as having specific grounds for anxiety about the Eastern Partnership. It was not consulted about its terms; it fears that the EU’s approach toward the six republics might compromise Romania’s own relations in the Black Sea region; and most importantly, Romania is worried that the Eastern Partnership says nothing about – and may actually be a way of avoiding – the question of Moldova’s membership in the EU.The authors emphasize that to speak of a "Moldavian language" is to give credence to a Stalinist myth – Moldavian and Romanian are one and the same. They call attention to the Romanian-speaking minority in Ukraine, and hope that the language rights granted to the Hungarian minority in Romania will be extended similarly. Far from a parochial concern, the authors present this as a case study in the cultural-linguistic tensions unresolved both within and at the borders of the EU.Global RelationsWhile the book details Romania’s internal concerns – including its troops in Afghanistan and minorities in Serbia – it does not ignore the global picture: relations with the USA, China, the UN, the accession of Turkey and Croatia, the Western Balkans, and Kosovo.Every chapter ends with a clear summary of the authors’ position. This, together with its depth and clarity, makes the book – despite its technical tone – essential reading for anyone interested in what the EU is, and what it might become.Colin SwatridgeMetadata – Scholarly ReviewTitle:Review of “Le management des politiques de l’Union Européenne” by Michel Labori and Simion CosteaAuthor:Colin SwatridgeType of publication:Scholarly ReviewReviewed Work:Michel Labori and Simion Costea, Le management des politiques de l’Union Européenne, Paris: Editions Prodifmultimedia, 2011, 304 pp.Published in:Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Historia, Vol. 11 (2011), pp. 330–334Publisher of the journal:Editura Universității „Petru Maior”, Tîrgu Mureș, RomaniaISSN:1582-8433Place of publication:Tîrgu Mureș, RomaniaReview Abstract:This scholarly review, authored by Colin Swatridge, analyzes the collective volume Le management des politiques de l’Union Européenne by Michel Labori and Simion Costea. The book explores major EU policy areas, including classic policy pillars (competition, agriculture, regional cohesion), climate and energy policy, EU enlargement, the Eastern Partnership, and the geopolitical stakes surrounding Romania and Moldova. The review highlights both the technical rigor and the geopolitical insights of the volume, offering a detailed perspective on EU governance, policy coherence, and regional strategy.Keywords:European Union, EU policy, EU enlargement, energy policy, climate change, governance, Romania, Moldova, Eastern Partnership, geopolitical strategy, Simion Costea, Michel Labori, Colin Swatridge, Studia Universitatis Petru MaiorLanguage:EnglishDocument Type:Peer-reviewed journal reviewPages:330–334License: (CC BY 4.0 recommended
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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