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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
Hearts are gay, when they play at pretending, [first line of chorus]
No full textPerformers: Andy Russell, Bing Crosby, Kate SmithPiano, Voice and Chord
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
The Poetic Dhamma of Zao Amat Long’s Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta and the Place of Traditional Literature in Shan Theravada Buddhism
Get PDFThe monastic boundary (sīmā) in Burmese Buddhism: authority, purity and validity in historical and modern contexts
Get PDFKammic Communities: theory and practice in modern Theravada [Special issue of: Contemporary Buddhism. Volume 9, Number 1]
No full textFour of the articles in this volume examine what it is that individuals and local Buddhist communities seek from their karmic relationships with the temples that serve them. In his study of the emotional, aspirational and aesthetic motives and responses involved in making offerings to monks in modern Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Samuels replaces outmoded scholarly approaches to merit-making, which sought to contrast a mechanistic attitude on the part of donors with the supposed early ideal apparently represented in the canon. By taking the experience of practitioners as his starting point, Samuels then shows that we can find corroborating support for such views in the very same canon. An ongoing model of Buddhism dating back to Weber and other scholars of his day had previously misdirected our textual selection. Kate Crosby’s article also confronts preselected canonicity and assumptions of a mechanistic approach to karma. The role of temples at the forefront in enabling communities to recover from trauma is in direct contradiction of the continuing perception of Theravada monasticism as an essentially individually oriented, other-worldly ‘selfish’ concern, a model that pervades Weberian based studies. Alexandra Kent and John Marston both examine developments in Cambodian Buddhism following the trauma of the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) period, and in particular since the freeing up of explicit state control since the reforms of 1989 and the introduction of multiparty democracy in 1991. In spite of religious institutions being officially released from the assumption that their function was to support the ruling party, Kent shows how the introduction of multiparty democracy has led to the increased weight of macropolitical processes on temples and individuals, as the ruling elite seek to control the newly established rights of individuals to vote over who holds high-level power. This interference in the traditional relationship between a community and its temple has serious implications for the free choice of Cambodians to pursue security through Buddhism. This is of particular significance given Cambodian belief in the relationship between a failure to uphold Buddhist morality and a loss of power, with the subsequent calamity and insecurity exemplified not only by the DK period, but also by the current fragility of Cambodian society. Cambodia perhaps more than anywhere else illustrates the multivalent problems of an imposition of social theory on both representation and practice of Buddhism, as shown in John Marston’s assessment of the problems that Cambodian society presents for classical theories of civil society. This is particularly pertinent given the successive marshalling of religion by a centralised state from the Thai and French colonial struggles for dominance of Cambodia onwards. Both the French (through the modernising wing of the Mahånikåya) and the Thai (through the then newly established Dhammayutikanikåya) patronised a reform Buddhism based on a notion of a pristine and universally uniform Theravada tradition derived from the Pali canon itself read through a secularising lens. In that context the traditional forms of Cambodian Buddhism, based around the teacher-pupil lineages of empowering meditation practices, kammatthåna, and the personal authority of monks thus empowered, were seen as boran (‘ancient’/’traditional’) in contrast to modern. Marston examines the ways in which, following the disruption of the DK and socialist periods, people understand boran more broadly, and not to the exclusion of modernity, in their search for a return to the authenticity of the past in their quest to re-establish community. Phibul Choompolpaisal's article looks at the impact Weber has had on our study of Theravada, by following the lines of Weber's influence into modern scholarship in the field. The editorial examines the effect that this has had on our understanding of what Jonathan Walters terms 'socio-kamma"
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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