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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
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
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
A University's Stories About Teaching and Learning During SARS: The Narrative Psychology Perspective Narrative Structure and Social Construction
No full textSeven stories about a university s coping with teaching and learning during the outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong were read and interpreted from a narrative psychology perspective. Specifically, narrative analysis of the seven stories was preceded by reviewing the background of the stories, the origin of narrative psychology, the nature of narrative research, and the typical frameworks for narrative analysis. Each story was then read and interpreted in light of its externalized problem, unique outcomes, and the dual landscapes of action and consciousness using the White-Epston narrative therapy approach. The view of reading and interpreting stories from multiple perspectives and retelling stories that are built on strengths is emphasized. Key words: narrative analysis; SARS stories; Hong Kong Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to David W. Chan, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected] 94 David W Chan We live in a storied world, and we readily come to appreciate the pervasiveness of storytelling in everyday interaction. Consciously or unconsciously, we interpret our actions and those of others through the stories we exchange with each other. And through stories and narrative accounts, we shape the world and ourselves. We have collected seven stories about teaching and learning at The Chinese University of Hong Kong during the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in March-April 2003. While the events we experienced under SARS do not survive through time, the stories that we tell about these events will. They have shaped and will continue to influence our lived experiences as we participate as narrators, authors, listeners, and readers. We have ordered these stories in a quasi-narrative fashion so that they will tell an unfolding story, moving from the more general stories to the more specific stories. Many of the issues that emerge in these stories appear to double back on one another as the authors or narrators discuss related yet differently contextualized concerns. In inviting authors to tell their stories, In this war, we have suffered heavy casualties. Some of us have been struck by the disease, others had to struggle for their lives in Intensive Care Units, and still others had to be in quarantine and separated from their loved ones. Our health care professionals have dedicated themselves to take care of us. They risked their health and some even their lives so that we might live healthier. Notwithstanding our efforts to curb the rise of the number of infected individuals, our figure kept rising each day. Our death toll has climbed to an alarmingly high number, dwarfing figures from infected areas around the globe. Despite our grave concerns at the time, we also had cause for optimism. In summary, these were the conditions surrounding the emergence of our seven stories at a time when our knowledge about SARS was minimal. These stories, taken together, paint a picture of a university's responses to the SARS crisis, especially in the areas of teaching and learning. However, before recruiting readers to a view of stories through a narrative psychology perspective, I would like to invite readers to a detour for an overview of narrative psychology and narrative research. An overview of the typical frameworks of narrative analysis has also been included and is intended to make the subsequent narrative analysis of the seven stories more meaningful to readers. Narrative Psychology and Narrative Research Storytelling has a long tradition in human recorded history dating back perhaps to the famous epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey from the ninth century B.C. Naturally, the study of narrative also has a long history. In psychology, it can be traced to a number of pioneers. One of them is Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) who developed the approach of Volkerpsychologie in parallel to his experimental psychology Recently, the study of narratives has been revived, in psychology, sociology, education, and other human sciences (see Unlike paradigmatic knowing and its quantitative mode of inquiry that tends to break down thoughts, language, and other human experiences into the smallest parts for investigation, narrative knowing and its qualitative mode of inquiry emphasizes the in-depth study of the whole persons in Narrative research represents a major shift in perspective and approach from the dominant quantitative approach in psychological research. Yet, many investigators are drawn to narrative inquiry because they are intrigued by the possibility of studying lives in a closer and more personal way. In this sense, narrative knowing is the dominant process of thinking in folk psychology. Consequently, many psychologists rightly argue that narrative is central in making sense of the world, and is central in the narrative interpretation of reality (e.g., Narrative Structure and Social Construction Narrative has certain distinguishing features that make it possible for us to make sense of the world. By providing a coherent causal account of events that have occurred or are expected to occur, narrative brings a sense of order and meaning to the myriad details of these events. Thus, the distinguishing features of narrative include causal and temporal dimensions as well as coherence. In this connection, Through weaving different episodes together to make a coherent and meaningful account, the plot also connects the beginning of the story to the end. In considering plots as giving structure to narrative, we normally draw on the range of plot lines in our culture to shape our interpretation of events. Narrative Psychology and the SARS Storie
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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