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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
Analyse comparée du contenu du premier traité de physique canadien
No full textJoseph-Édouard Cauchon rédige en 1841 les Notions élémentaires de physique, premier manuel de physique canadien. Inspiré de manuels français et de l\u27enseignement scientifique donné au Séminaire de Québec, ce traité de 124 pages contient des connaissances pratiques destinées, selon son auteur, à mousser les jeunes talents pour les arts usuels. Afin d\u27évaluer la portée des Notions, l’article présente une analyse comparée de ce traité en lien avec le contenu et la forme de manuels français et américains. Si les auteurs de traités destinés aux collèges royaux français sont fervents de précision et de savoirs abstraits, leurs homologues américains rédigeant des manuels pour les high schools semblent plus pragmatiques et plus favorables aux connaissances appliquées. Les racines de ces différences se situent dans les conditions institutionnelles et pédagogiques de l\u27utilisation des manuels. C\u27est dans ces mêmes conditions que semble résider l\u27échec des Notions : trop simples pour les collèges et trop complexes pour les écoles élémentaires.
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In 1841, Joseph-Édouard Cauchon wrote Notions élémentaires de physique, the first Canadian physics textbook. Inspired by French texts and by the teaching of science at the Séminaire de Québec, his 124-page treatise contains practical knowledge intended, according to its author, to inspire future scientists. In order to evaluate the impact of Notions, this article presents a comparative analysis of the book in relation to the form and content of French and American textbooks. While the authors of books destined for use in French collèges royaux are fervent about precision and abstract knowledge, their American counterparts, writing for high school students, seem to be both more pragmatic and more interested in applied knowledge. The roots of these differences are found in the educational and institutional contexts in which the textbooks were used. The failure of Notions can also be explained by context: its content was too simple for use in secondary schools and too complex for elementary students
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
Analyse comparée du contenu du premier traité de physique canadien
Get PDFJoseph-Édouard Cauchon rédige en 1841 les Notions élémentaires de physique, premier manuel de physique canadien. Inspiré de manuels français et de l'enseignement scientifique donné au Séminaire de Québec, ce traité de 124 pages contient des connaissances pratiques destinées, selon son auteur, à mousser les jeunes talents pour les arts usuels. Afin d'évaluer la portée des Notions, l’article présente une analyse comparée de ce traité en lien avec le contenu et la forme de manuels français et américains. Si les auteurs de traités destinés aux collèges royaux français sont fervents de précision et de savoirs abstraits, leurs homologues américains rédigeant des manuels pour les high schools semblent plus pragmatiques et plus favorables aux connaissances appliquées. Les racines de ces différences se situent dans les conditions institutionnelles et pédagogiques de l'utilisation des manuels. C'est dans ces mêmes conditions que semble résider l'échec des Notions : trop simples pour les collèges et trop complexes pour les écoles élémentaires.
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In 1841, Joseph-Édouard Cauchon wrote Notions élémentaires de physique, the first Canadian physics textbook. Inspired by French texts and by the teaching of science at the Séminaire de Québec, his 124-page treatise contains practical knowledge intended, according to its author, to inspire future scientists. In order to evaluate the impact of Notions, this article presents a comparative analysis of the book in relation to the form and content of French and American textbooks. While the authors of books destined for use in French collèges royaux are fervent about precision and abstract knowledge, their American counterparts, writing for high school students, seem to be both more pragmatic and more interested in applied knowledge. The roots of these differences are found in the educational and institutional contexts in which the textbooks were used. The failure of Notions can also be explained by context: its content was too simple for use in secondary schools and too complex for elementary students
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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