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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
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
Il concetto di ideologia in Nicos Poulantzas
No full textThis essay examines the pivotal role assigned by Nicos Poulantzas to ideology within the dynamics of the capitalist state. Poulantzas interprets ideology as essential to the ideal unity of the state and its apparent autonomy from class struggle. By analyzing his theoretical works, Political Power and Social Classes (1968) and State, Power, Socialism (1978), alongside applications in historical-political contexts like Fascism and Dictatorship (1970), the study highlights the centrality of the ideological instance in the reproduction of capitalist social formations. It discusses Poulantzas’s critique of historicist perspectives, the interplay between ideology and class struggle, and his conceptual evolution towards ideology as a material practice embedded in the relations of production and class dynamics.Questo saggio esamina il ruolo centrale assegnato da Nicos Poulantzas all'ideologia all’interno delle dinamiche dello stato capitalista. Poulantzas interpreta l’ideologia come essenziale per l’unità ideale dello Stato e per la sua apparente autonomia dalla lotta di classe. Analizzando le sue opere teoriche, Potere politico e classi sociali (1968) e Lo Stato, il potere, il socialismo (1978), accanto alle traduzioni nei contesti storico-politici come Fascismo e dittatura (1970), lo studio evidenzia la centralità dell’istanza ideologica nella riproduzione delle formazioni sociali capitalistiche. Discute la critica di Poulantzas alle prospettive storiciste, l’interazione tra ideologia e lotta di classe e la sua evoluzione concettuale verso l’ideologia come pratica materiale incorporata nei rapporti di produzione e nelle dinamiche di classe
Agamben e Foucault: due modelli irriducibili di biopolitica
Full text linkIn this paper, we discuss the foucaultian and agambenian concepts of biopolitics. This comparison between Foucault and Agamben is divided in three parts. First of all, we show how ontologistic and anti-historical nuances of Agamben’s concept of biopolitics don’t allow to grasp both the socio-economic contradictions and the positive aspects of biopolitics. In this section we reflect also on the theoretical aporia of Agamben’s interpretation of Aristotelian bios. In the second place, we show the agambenian misunderstanding of the relationship between subject and self in the last Foucault. In the end, we compare the foucaultian and agambenian concepts of public health
Unità e autonomia relativa dello Stato. Alcune note su Poulantzas lettore de Il 18 Brumaio di Marx
Full text linkUnità e autonomia relativa dello Stato. Alcune note su Poulantzas
lettore de Il 18 Brumaio di Marx
Alberto Destasio (Università di Catania)
This essay examines Nicos Poulantzas\u27 interpretation of Marx\u27s "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" within the framework of his theory on the relative autonomy of the capitalist state. Poulantzas challenges the instrumentalist perspective of the state, arguing instead that the state functions as a space for the unstable compromise among dominant class fractions while maintaining the unity and coherence of institutionalized political power. Drawing upon Marxist texts and theories from Engels, Lenin, and Gramsci, Poulantzas emphasizes the evolving forms of state autonomy across historical phases and regimes, particularly highlighting Bonapartism as a paradigm for understanding the state’s dual character: as a tool for class domination and as an institution with its own structural logic. The essay critiques Poulantzas\u27 rejection of instrumentalism, raising questions about the relationship between state autonomy and the direct influence of dominant classes.
Capitalist State; Relative Autonomy; Bonapartism; Marxist Theory; Class Domination.Unità e autonomia relativa dello Stato. Alcune note su Poulantzas
lettore de Il 18 Brumaio di Marx
Alberto Destasio (Università di Catania)
This essay examines Nicos Poulantzas\u27 interpretation of Marx\u27s "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" within the framework of his theory on the relative autonomy of the capitalist state. Poulantzas challenges the instrumentalist perspective of the state, arguing instead that the state functions as a space for the unstable compromise among dominant class fractions while maintaining the unity and coherence of institutionalized political power. Drawing upon Marxist texts and theories from Engels, Lenin, and Gramsci, Poulantzas emphasizes the evolving forms of state autonomy across historical phases and regimes, particularly highlighting Bonapartism as a paradigm for understanding the state’s dual character: as a tool for class domination and as an institution with its own structural logic. The essay critiques Poulantzas\u27 rejection of instrumentalism, raising questions about the relationship between state autonomy and the direct influence of dominant classes.
Capitalist State; Relative Autonomy; Bonapartism; Marxist Theory; Class Domination
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