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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
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
The Brisbane line : an episode in capital history
No full textThe Brisbane Line remains one of the enigmas of Australian history. It is seen either as a military plan drawn up in 1908 to defend Australia from a possible Japanese invasion, or in terms of the unfounded allegations by Labor's Eddie Ward against the defeatism of the first Menzies government to boost the Curtin government's chances in the 1943 federal election. In a fading popular memory the Brisbane Line is recalled as scenes ofpanic and flight by North Queenslanders fleeing south in fear of a Japanese invasion. In his recent detailed study of the Brisbane Line, Paul Burns concluded that there was a plan to evacuate Australia north of a military line drawn from Brisbane to Adelaide and to defend that part of populated industrialised Australia south of the line from enemy attack. Bums saw Ward's charges of treachery as an electoral stunt without substance'! It might be presumed that the Brisbane Line enigma is no more. The Bums interpretation has seemingly utilised every available archival source on the topic. But Bums' conclusion is narrow and empirically limited. Like other studies of the Brisbane Line, the Burns view is bereft of historical context, class analysis and of dependent Australian capitalism's place both within the inter-imperialist rivalries of the inter-war period and the political economy of empire. Taken together these elements allow the Brisbane Line to be re-examined as a neglected episode of capital history. What, then, is capital history
Russel Ward and the making of the Australian Legend
No full textThe Australian Legend was a search for a national identity as it explored language and 'Austrailian-ness'. It expressed the anxieties about post-war non-Anglo immigration and the tensions about race and cultural difference. For middle class Australia, it invented a cultural stability, durability and order in an Australian national identity
Labour transformed? : two key moments in workers' militancy in Australia, 1969-1975
No full textThis paper will analyse two key moments in worker militancy during the period 1969-1975 when labour at the point of production was momentarily transformed. These two moments, the Harco 'work-in' and the Wyong 'perch-in,' may rate no mention in the broad narrative of contemporary labour history. However, their significance, when examined, may be profound, if labour is to be transformed under the conditions of monopoly capitalism. These moments represent the taking of the road less travelled in worker militancy
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