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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
Social Media as Local Crisis Infrastructure: The Interconnected Work of Citizens, Responders, and Journalists in the Social Media Crowd
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This research considers the role of social media after the deadly 2014 Oso Landslide: how impacted community members, responders, volunteers, and journalists made use (and sometimes did not make use) of social media. Drawing on CSCW, HCI, and Crisis Informatics scholarship that treat social media systems as sites of information work, this study employs several methods to understand social media use after the Oso Landslide including extensive analysis of the public digital record, interviews, sites visits, and post hoc participant observation. Common sampling, computational, and quantitative techniques used by social media researchers are integrated into an interpretivist ethnographic approach thereby enabling an examination of social media use in the broader context of the affected community’s information work following the disaster. This study finds that social media were widely used by citizens, responders, and journalists working within the crisis-affected region. Though social media were not used by everyone in these groups, social media platforms played a substantive role in the information work for each of these groups. In some cases, social media were the primary means for doing certain kinds of information work pertaining to the crises and were integrated into many aspects of the response. The breadth of work and nature of the work taking place through these systems makes these systems candidates for consideration of social media as local crisis infrastructure. Yet, what is visible on social media is only a partial lens into community information work. Institutional arrangements, coordination practices, local cultural practices and sensibilities shape what is visible on social media. A desire for privacy and other practical considerations shape what community members, volunteers, and responders choose to share publicly. Many chose private or semi-private use of social media for community conversation, suggesting an ongoing need for trusted community information intermediaries. In this new kind of infrastructure, traditional regional media continued to play an important role, serving as common resources across responder and citizen interviewees who continued to reply upon news produced by regional journalists that circulated through social media and other mediums. Looking at several key instances of publicly visible online information work over different points of time, this work reveals that the social media work of citizens, responders, and journalists were often inter-dependent. From the earliest tweets raising public awareness of the landslide minutes after it occurred to post-emergency considerations of accountability, future preparedness and mitigation years afterwards, citizens, responders, and journalists played complementary and distinct roles in the production and dissemination of information. Aligned with pre-social media arrangements, journalists in regional news organizations with ties to print and broadcast followed by regional responding organizations were important as information sources. Different from pre-social media arrangements, citizens were active curators and disseminators of information from journalists and responders. This suggests that though social media have reshaped the contributions of citizens, responders, and journalists to public crisis information, their respective contributions remain tied to their social roles, their respective resources, practices, and their specific relationship to the impacted community. Together, these findings suggest that effective community information work is more likely to be the product of synergistic and complementary information work by citizens, responders, and journalists than it is to result from the work of one of these groups alone. Thus though social media has created new platforms for participation, enabling dynamic citizen and responder communication during emergencies, evidence here suggests journalists have not been replaced. Regional journalists were instrumental to civic sensemaking about the landslide from the earliest moments of the crisis through long term recovery. Considering the crisis-related information work of journalists, citizens, and responders as related and interdependent leads to a different way of conceptualizing local crisis infrastructure. Because local journalism is in decline, these findings have consequence for considering the crisis information infrastructures that can support communities in future emergencies
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
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