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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
Indígenas estudantes nas graduações da UFRGS : movimentos de re-existência
Get PDFA presença indígena no Ensino Superior brasileiro é um fenômeno recente e, na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), lócus desta investigação, ocorre desde o ano de 2008, a partir da mobilização dos coletivos indígenas. Sua crescente demanda pelo acesso ao Ensino Superior motiva-se pela busca de apropriação de ferramentas da sociedade não indígena para a defesa de seus direitos, territórios e organização social. Como servidora técnica que se dedica a acompanhar os movimentos da política de ações afirmativas na UFRGS, realizei esta tese com o intuito de compreender o estar indígena universitário e como a instituição vem se mobilizando diante de tal presença. Trata-se de um estudo inspirado na etnografia, na cartografia e na pesquisa colaborativa, evidenciando os contornos da presença indígena na UFRGS no ir se fazendo da política. Assenta-se na convivência com indígenas no espaço acadêmico e em algumas terras de origem, conformando um estar-junto registrado no Diário de Campo e em conversas-entrevista. Também realizei pesquisa documental para dizer como a política foi se construindo em um processo conflitual de negociação entre universidade, lideranças e indígenas universitários, bem como para a análise de uma década de programa no que diz respeito ao perfil dos candidatos e dos ingressantes no processo seletivo específico. A partir dos temas que emergiram da escuta sensível como postura metodológica e, ancorada na perspectiva da decolonialidade e dos estudos de interculturalidade, apresento algumas contribuições para pensar a relação universidade-indígenas na atualidade. Foi possível identificar que, ao mesmo tempo em que avança em termos de acolhimento da diferença, a universidade segue perpetuando práticas eurocentradas de colonialidade do ser, do saber e do poder produtoras de exclusão no interior de uma política que se pretende inclusiva. No que toca aos indígenas universitários, experimentam o (des)encontro com as lógicas de ser e estar nesse espaço e a ambiguidade na relação de aproximação e afastamento, na qual a conexão com a vida é que define sobre permanecer (ou não) na universidade. Apropriam-se do universo acadêmico, dos conhecimentos ocidentais, e, ao mesmo tempo, re-existem através de uma presença disruptiva que se expressa na linguagem, nas diferentes temporalidades, na lógica comunal, no compromisso com a comunidade, na re-existência epistêmica. Desse modo, o estar sendo indígena universitário dá-se num espaço de fronteira entre dois universos opostos e complementares. Nesse lugar, habita a potência do pensar indígena que, atuando entre dois sistemas de pensamento (da ciência ocidental e o próprio), pode causar rupturas na episteme hegemônica. Dados da pesquisa mostram, ainda, que a presença indígena nos cursos de graduação da UFRGS oferece possibilidades de autorreflexão para a instituição, sobre suas práticas pedagógicas e seu papel social. A escuta, a construção de relações afetivas e de diálogo equitativo com os indígenas, bem como a postura receptiva aos conhecimentos originários, são ações fundamentais no exercício da interculturalidade e podem se constituir como práticas que tornem esse encontro fecundo, tanto para os povos originários, quanto para a própria universidade.The indigenous presence in Brazilian Universities is a recent phenomenon and, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where this research was conducted, occurs since the year 2008, having originated from the mobilization of indigenous groups. The search for ownership of tools of the non-indigenous society for the defense of their rights, territories and social organization has motivated the growing demand for access to higher education. As a technical worker dedicated to accompanying the affirmative action policy movements at UFRGS, I conceived this thesis with the objective of understanding the indigenous university existence and how the institution mobilizes itself in the face of such presence. This study is inspired by ethnography, cartography, and collaborative research, underscoring the contours of the indigenous presence in UFRGS in the creation an implementation of this politicies. It is based on the coexistence with indigenous people in the academic environment and some lands of origin, generating a being-together recorded in the field diary and in conversation-interviews. The author also carried out documentary research in order to tell how the policy was being built in a conflictive process of negotiation between University, leaders and indigenous university students, as well as for the analysis of a decade of the Program with respect to the profile of candidates and new entrants in the specific selection process. From the themes that emerged from sensitive listening as a methodological stance, and anchored in the perspective of decoloniality and intercultural studies, the author presents some contributions to think about the relationship Universityindigenous people today. It was possible to identify that, while advancing in terms of welcoming differences, the University continues to perpetuate Eurocentric practices of coloniality of being, knowledge, and power, producing exclusion within a policy that is intended to be inclusive. As far as indigenous University students are concerned, they experience the (dis)encounter with the logics of being and existing in that space, as well as the ambiguity in the relation of approach and withdrawal, in which the connection with life is what defines whether to remain (or not) in the University. They seize the academic universe, Western knowledge, and at the same time re-exist through a disruptive presence expressed in language, in different temporalities, in communal logic, in commitment to community, in epistemic re-existence. The existencebeing of indigenous university students occurs, therefore, in the borderline between two opposing and complementary universes. In this place, there inhabits the power of indigenous thinking, which, acting between two systems of thought (Western science and itself), can cause ruptures in the hegemonic episteme. Research data also show that the indigenous presence in undergraduate courses at UFRGS offers possibilities for self-reflection for the institution, its pedagogical practices, and its social role. Listening, building affective relations, plus an equitable dialogue with indigenous people, as well as receptive attitude to the original knowledge, are central actions in the exercise of interculturality and can become practices that make this encounter fruitful, for the native peoples, as well as for the University
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
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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