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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
‘It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda’: Meta-Discourses and Female Genealogies in Late Eighteenth-Century English Novels
No full textThis chapter explores the generic elements of novels written by women
writers during the last three decades of the eighteenth century in England and their
alterations in forms and content: from sentential novel to gothic romance, moral
tales, tales of real life, sentimental novel, and novel of manners. Such narratives
have been acknowledged as fundamental in shaping a genealogy of women
novelists, whose narrative technique proved to be very influential in the history of
English fiction in the early period of Romanticism. Among the many names who
peopled the vast panorama of English novel of the period, this chapter discusses in
particular the works and narrative technique of Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith,
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Inchbald, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and
Jane Austen. While their production resist easy categorization, these writers deploy
conventions and innovations offering a new representation of British social milieu
according to their contemporary ideology. In fact, their literary strategies can be
used to contextualize their literary outputs within the developmental trajectory of
the narrative genre that seems to emerge thanks to literary borrowing, generic
crossover, and contamination. In doing so, I would situate women novelists of the
period as central innovators of Romantic fiction
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
“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”: Genealogies, Re-Visions of the Body, and Feminist Figurations
No full textRetracing women’s genealogies is not only “an act of survival”, but also a radical deconstruction of the western symbolic order where women have represented the “other” of man. This act starts from the reappropriation of language, re-visions of the female body, and the recognition of women’s multifaceted and heterogeneous traditions. Theorizing continuities and discontinuities in gender constructions implies envisaging new figurations capable of elaborating and prospecting new forms of identity and subjectivity. Luce Irigaray’s divine women, Hélène Cixous’s laughing Medusa, the posthuman images of the nomadic feminist subjects (Rosi Braidotti), and the feminist cyborg (Donna Haraway) are connected to the analyses of the queer, the drag, and the abject by Judith Butler in order to highlight the heterogeneity of feminist thought, but also a transversal continuity in women’s critical traditions
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
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