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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
From palimpsest to palimpsest - The itinerary of a posthumous work by Eça de Queiroz : a Capital!
No full textL’œuvre d’Eça de Queiroz, romancier portugais de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle offre la particularité d’inclure davantage d’ouvrages posthumes que de publications du vivant de l’auteur. La raison en est certainement une exigence de perfection poussée à l’extrême ainsi que sa mort prématurée en 1900, à l’âge de 55 ans, laissant de côté e nombreux manuscrits inachevés. C’est sous le signe du palimpseste que ce travail se propose de revenir sur la période de « fabrication » du roman A Capital!, publié en 1925, à la lumière de nouveaux documents découverts dans les archives de la Fondation Eça de Queiroz. Il s’agit, dans un premier temps, de reconsidérer le montage effectué par les deux fils de l’auteur, José Maria et Alberto, en vue de la publication et surtout d’en mesurer les limites et les points contestables. Cela nous conduit à reconsidérer le corpus des différents manuscrits et à proposer de nouvelles perspectives. En poussant plus loin ce travail d’archéologue, cette recherche projette également d’aborder les différentes phases d’évolution de l’œuvre, au cours des sept années que l’auteur lui a consacré tout en la maintenant, par le jeu des circonstances, presque constamment au second plan. En projetant un nouvel éclairage sur les diverses arborescences de ce roman abandonné, cette analyse contribue à mettre en exergue son rôle charnière, constituant à la fois un vivier de personnages et l’émergence d’un certain nombre de thèmes prégnants susceptibles d’alimenter les œuvres suivantes.The work of Eça de Queiroz, a Portuguese novelist from the second half of the 19th century, has the particularity of including more posthumous works than publications during the author’s lifetime. The reason for this is certainly an extreme demand for perfection, as well as the author’s premature death in 1900 at the age of 55, leaving many unfinished manuscripts aside.This work proposes to revisit the period of the “fabrication” of the novel A Capital! published in 1925, in light of new documents discovered in the archives of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation, under the sign of the palimpsest. It is first necessary to reconsider the editing carried out by the author’s two sons, José Maria and Alberto, with a view to publication, and above all to measure its limits and contested points. This leads us to reconsider the corpus of the different manuscripts and to propose new perspectives. By delving deeper into this archeological work, this research also aims to address the different phases of evolution of the work, over the seven years that the author devoted to it, while keeping it, by the play of circumstances, almost constantly in the background. By shedding light on the various branches of this abandonned novel, this analysis helps to highlight its pivotal role, constituting both a breeding ground for characters and the emergence of a number of prevalent themes that may feed into subsequent works
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
Compte rendu de Beleza, Fernando et Park, Simon (eds.), Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist, Bern, Peter Lang AG, 2017, 183 p.
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