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Rezension zu: Gabriela Signori: Von der Paradiesehe zur Gütergemeinschaft. Die Ehe in der mittelalterlichen Lebens- und Vorstellungswelt.: Das Institut der Ehe im Mittelalter
No full textBased on archival research of city culture within the Old Swiss Federation at the end of the Late Middle Ages, the author examines which legal constructions have been used in order to organize marriages. The observation is that documented marriage arrangements in the first place reflect the economic interests of the involved families and only in the last place that of the spouses concerned. Although this finding is not that unexpected, it renders further findings of even greater interest such as the functioning of the oral and the written culture alongside each other and the position of women within this process
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
Gerechtigkeitsdiskurse in Passionsspielen des ‚neuen‘ Glaubens:Eine Studie zu den Passionsspielen des Jakob Ruf (1545), des Hans Sachs (1558) und des Hugo Grotius (1608)
Full text linkDiscourses of Justice in the Passion Plays of the ‘New’ Faith:A study about the passion plays of Jakob Ruf (1545), Hans Sachs (1558) and Hugo de Groot (1608)Justice is a European leitmotif that appeals to the imagination. This observation is particularly true for the genre of passion play. Hence, this genre, which originated in Europe in the 12th century, has remained current through the centuries.It remains current in such a way that the Netherlands, a country where church buildings are redeveloped into artists’ studios and discotheques, holds an annual march called ‘the Passion’, which stages Jesus’ sufferings.This dramatised Biblical story of Jesus which reflects injustice and the accompanying suffering from different angles suits well the study of this leitmotif.The study researched three passion plays to investigate how the period of the Reformation and confessionalism influenced – even changed – the leitmotif of justice.The Zurich passion play of 1545 stylizes Jesus as a ‘welfare recipient’, emphasising the just treatment of the poor based on their needs, akin to the treatment of Jesus Himself. The passion play from Nuremberg (1558) by Sachs expresses the criticism that the introduction of the ‘New’ Faith could not ensure that the rich have developed a moral compass; on the contrary, they are exploiting the poor even more. Further, in his renowned 1608 passion play, the famous Hugo de Groot from Leiden poses and addresses a question about justice when Jesus rebels against His fate in the Garden of Gethsemane. The Jesus character ponders, ‘Does it really has to happen?’ and answers ‘Yes, it has to but only with my consent’. This study brings to light the reality that the suffering of Jesus depicted in these three passion plays has, to some extent, become a part of social – rather than religious – history. Moreover, de Groot’s passion play highlights that Jesus refuses to resign to his fate but actively takes on his fate as his mission. The latter stresses the human side of Jesus
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