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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
Towards Redemption: Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes on Photography
No full textThis thesis compares and contrasts the multiple discourses on photography found in
the critical and theoretical writings of Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes. It seeks
to demonstrate that despite the different historical, philosophical, cultural, and
linguistic contexts of their work, Benjamin and Barthes engage with a similar
constellation of questions and problems that photography uniquely poses. It argues
that each author moves towards a practice of redemptive criticism as foregrounded in
relation to one privileged photograph in each case (the childhood portrait of Franz
Kafka, for Benjamin, and the photograph of the mother-as-child for Barthes).
Dedicated to a close reading of relevant texts by each author, the study is divided
into three parts, with each corresponding to a different set of themes to which the
photographic is related.
The first part focuses on the historical and evolutionary development of
Benjamin’s and Barthes’s view of photography in the context of wider shifts in their
critical practice and methodology, and then in comparison with each other. The
second part investigates the complex historical and philosophical influence of
Proustian aesthetics on their writing on photography. Suggesting that Proust’s
philosophy of memory provides an apt point of departure for Benjamin’s and
Barthes’s discussion of photography in relation to memory, it traces how each
thinker then moves beyond the Proustian conceptual framework towards similar
ends. The third and final part is devoted to Benjamin’s and Barthes’s
conceptualisation of photography in relation to singularity. Specifically, it centres on
how certain photographs convey singularity as a function of the relation between the
photograph, its referent, and its beholder.
In total, this study argues that Benjamin and Barthes rightly deserve their
often acknowledged places as pioneering figures in the theory of photography.
However, while both theorists provide numerous important insights into the
historical, cultural, and phenomenological nature and function of the medium, their
writing on photography is also marked (perhaps necessarily, in some cases) by
ambiguities, contradictions, and problematic evaluative judgements (with respect to
both the medium and to particular photographs) which must be acknowledged in
order to gain a proper appreciation of their work in this area
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
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