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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
Staging race in latina/o and Mexican transborder theater
Get PDFThis dissertation addresses the issue of race in regard to the Mexican immigrant in both Latino and Mexican theater and performance. The introduction, Chapter 1, defines race as biological differentiations that are reiterated through historical understandings in both Mexico and the United States. In the United States, the history of race is based on colonial encounters and issues of slavery, among other factors. In Mexico, racial concepts were influenced by a process of cultural mestizaje that tended to incorporate indigenous elements into the modernizing project of Mexico, and resulted in a movement toward the whitening of the race. Chapter 2 discusses role playing in regard to the construction of racial identities in Milcha Sánchez-Scott's Latina and Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda's La mujer que cayó del cielo. I question racial categorization in terms of globalization and transnational markets in Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante's Stuff and Luis Valdez's Los vendidos in Chapter 3. The concept of 'nation' and national identity for Mexican immigrants, and how their racialized bodies challenge conceptualizations of an essentialist nation-popular is explored in Hugo Salcedo's El viaje de los cantores and Cherríe Moraga's Watsonville: Some Place not Here in Chapter 4. The characters in each play of this study must confront their biological differences and learn to classify their Latino identity in order to confront the binary black and white racial standards of the United States as well as the process of mestizaje in Mexico. In order to negotiate a definition of the term race that is not based on bipolarities, the concept of a posthegemonic race is introduced. This term proposes an ideology of race based on performances that challenge an historical duality of hegemonic and counterhegemonic racial identities that are determined primarily by skin color. This study concludes that posthegemonic races are classified according to individual performances and, as such, skin color is no longer the primary determining factor in racial classifications. In the Conclusion, Chapter 5, the issue of choice is reiterated as a challenge to immigrants that remains to be questioned in regard to race in both Mexico and the United States
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
The past is present: Mexican historiographic metaliterature
Get PDFThis project explores the influence of the past in four works of contemporary Mexican literature: the novels Madero, el otro (1989) by Ignacio Solares and Noticias del Imperio (1987) by Fernando del Paso; and the plays Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda (1993) by Sabina Berman and La Malinche (2000) by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda. Drawing on the works of poststructuralists like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Linda Hutcheon, essays by Mexican thinkers such as Carlos Fuentes, and theories of temporality posited by Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Le Goff, I demonstrate that, through the distortion and demythification of historical figures and events, these texts highlight the present-day influence of historical events and individuals beyond the causal characteristics assigned them by traditional historiography. This effect is used to communicate the active manner in which the isolated "past" is engaged with the present. The result is that cause and effect are reversed so that the reader is encouraged to engage in a dialectical process with the consequences of history in the present
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
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