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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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
We Have a Partner Hire Situation: The Personal and Professional Lives of Dual-Career Academic Couples
Full text linkInstitutions have a well-established set of strategies from which they can draw to support the recruitment of dual-career academic couples, or faculty who are married/partnered to other faculty members. Thus, some might expect that the “two-body problem” is solved, or at the very least, improving. However, there is mixed evidence when it comes to evaluating whether dual-career support policies have in fact eased the challenges dual-career academic couples face during the recruitment process. Many dual-career academic couples do not use the formal policies available or do not find them to be helpful, which suggests that, even with dual-career support programs in place, the challenges facing dual-career academic couples remain similar to those observed 20 years ago. As such, dual-career academic couples not only continue to live apart or make career trade-offs to live together but are at risk for opting out of academia altogether, thereby contributing to the lack of women faculty members in American higher education institutions. Evaluations of the efficacy of dual-career support programs likewise show mixed evidence in whether universities that implemented policies have actually moved the needle on the number of women in faculty roles. Some institutions have experienced success in recruiting dual-career academic couples and thus increased the number of women faculty in certain fields. Yet, men faculty in different gender relationships are more likely to negotiate for dual-career accommodations compared to women faculty and more likely to be the “initial hire,” or more likely to be the partner who is recruited by the institution. In other words, although dual-career support programs were intended to facilitate the recruitment of women faculty as the “initial hire,” there is some evidence that men in different gender dual-career academic couples may be the partners who benefit from such policies. This study examines how dual-career academic couples who work at the same institution navigate their personal and professional lives. Drawing from 53 interviews with individual faculty members and academic leaders, I use a multiple, embedded case study of couples (N=16) at three research universities to examine the challenges dual-career academic couples encounter and the strategies they use to navigate these challenges. I consider how aspects of identity and status (i.e., gender, race, rank/employment type, and partner hire status), organizations, and field and society shape their experiences. Using the guiding theories of agency and intersectionality, I explored the challenges they encountered and the strategies that they used to adapt to those challenges. I also described the ways that work-life policies, practices, norms, and culture influenced couples’ personal and professional lives, as well as aspects of identity and status.
The challenges and strategies couples encountered were nested within the context of interactive individual/shared, organizational, and field and societal influences. The key challenges couples experienced were finding two, professional satisfying jobs at the same institution or in the same locale; negotiating whose career was considered the “lead,” navigating the dual-career hiring process and the consequences of being the second hire; working together (as collaborators and/or department colleagues); and managing work-life demands, particularly in the context of the pandemic. Couples acted with agency and used agentic perspectives to navigate these challenges, including prioritizing staying together; internally adjusting and recalibrating career and personal priorities; aligning their expectations about what constitutes “work-life integration”; exchanging capital; and having empathy and understanding for one another. Couples engaged in small and large acts of agentic resistance, for example, resisting traditional gender norms or expectations related to being a “good academic.” On the other hand, aspects of organizational policies and culture, and field and societal norms and expectations also constrained the actions and perspectives available to couples
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