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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
Understanding the socio-economic contributions of different wildlife ranching business models in South Africa
Get PDFAmidst the biodiversity loss crisis, the expansion of wildlife ranching has been associated with a numerous conservation benefits and linked to job creation and substantial economic contributions. However, an understanding of the socio-economic contributions of wildlife ranching that account for the heterogeneity and diverse business strategies within the wildlife economy remains limited. The aim of this research was to determine some of the socio-economic contributions of different wildlife-based business models, as defined by their main revenue-generating activities, within the wildlife ranching industry in South Africa, as well as the financial sustainability of these business models and their contributions. In total, 268 owners and managers of privately-owned wildlife ranches and agricultural farms (for comparative purposes) in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces of South Africa were surveyed. Through these surveys, I collected data on the revenue-generating activities they rely on, differences in their financial metrics, the number of jobs they provided and the salaries and non-salary benefits their employees received. This data was based on a non pandemic year (2019/2020) and a post-Covid-19 pandemic year (2021/2022) to assess the sustainability of ranches in response to a large-scale threat. Through a hierarchical clustering analysis of revenue-generating activities, six business models within the wildlife ranching sector were delineated according to their primary focus: ecotourism, trophy hunting, mixed hunting (i.e., biltong and trophy), mixed wildlife-agriculture, wildlife breeding and trophy hunting-game meat business models. On average, trophy hunting and ecotourism focused business models were found to make greater economic contributions, through high upfront capital investment and operating expenditure, than the mixed wildlife-agriculture and mixed hunting focused models. Ecotourism focused ranches employed more people than all business models except trophy hunting. They also provided higher quality jobs (defined as jobs that increase job security, workplace equality, and job satisfaction through higher compensation) by employing the highest proportion of women (41% on average) and the highest proportion of skilled employees (45% on average) across business models, including when compared with conventional agriculture. Trophy hunting focused ranches also employed more people per hectare than other models (although on average, over a quarter of these jobs are seasonal). They also offer the greatest variety of non-salary benefit types to employees (particularly in the form of housing and food), along with mixed hunting ranches. Trophy hunting ranches are considerably more profitable than ecotourism and wildlife breeding ranches, though there was high variability within the ecotourism model, likely as a result of some being focused on high-end ecotourism, and others on low-end ecotourism. After Covid-19, all business models experienced lower profitability and some enterprises across all business models retrenched employees. On average, the mixed-activity models did not retrench employees post-pandemic. Those that fared better during Covid-19 had more diversified profiles of revenue-generating activities (i.e., the mixed activity models), suggesting that enabling this diversity of approaches is important for the sustainability of wildlife ranching. The evidence presented here advances our understanding of the heterogeneous impacts and responses of wildlife ranches and suggests that differences in the socio-economic contributions of these ranches should be considered across business models as several distinctions exist between these models. A more nuanced approach to understanding the socio-economic contributions of wildlife ranching will benefit the policy discourse surrounding the industry by providing information relevant to specific business models', which may lead to more effective policy implementation and improve the industry's sustainability and growth
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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