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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
On the Gestalt of Scale
No full textErik Swyngedouw is widely recognised as contributing to Human Geography’s scale debate in the late 1990s and early 2000s – a time when scholars debated the nature of scale and the role it should play within geographical thought. In wake of this debate, Swyngedouw’s work on the ‘gestalt of scale’ – a term borrowed from Neil Smith (1987) – has not enjoyed the same level of recognition as his related writings on concepts like glocalisation. This is despite the phrase permeating many of his writings on scale, and him arguably being the leading proponent of the term. Put briefly, the ‘gestalt of scale’ points to how a given configuration of scales interact and relate, and that they are other than just ‘the sum of their parts’. In this chapter, I trace the emergence of this term, the key contributions offered by Swyngedouw, and provide conceptual clarity on the term by drawing on Gestalt psychology. I reflect on the legacy of the gestalt of scale for geography and urban thought most generally, addressing ongoing disciplinary debates about scale, and highlight the importance of attending to the ‘whole’ amid a disciplinary focus on parts, relations, and fragments. I also speculate on how the concept might be re-engaged in contemporary thought to better understand the reproduction of power and the pursuit of emancipatory politics
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
On the Gestalt of Scale
No full textErik Swyngedouw is widely recognised as contributing to Human Geography’s scale debate in the late 1990s and early 2000s – a time when scholars debated the nature of scale and the role it should play within geographical thought. In wake of this debate, Swyngedouw’s work on the ‘gestalt of scale’ – a term borrowed from Neil Smith (1987) – has not enjoyed the same level of recognition as his related writings on concepts like glocalisation. This is despite the phrase permeating many of his writings on scale, and him arguably being the leading proponent of the term. Put briefly, the ‘gestalt of scale’ points to how a given configuration of scales interact and relate, and that they are other than just ‘the sum of their parts’. In this chapter, I trace the emergence of this term, the key contributions offered by Swyngedouw, and provide conceptual clarity on the term by drawing on Gestalt psychology. I reflect on the legacy of the gestalt of scale for geography and urban thought most generally, addressing ongoing disciplinary debates about scale, and highlight the importance of attending to the ‘whole’ amid a disciplinary focus on parts, relations, and fragments. I also speculate on how the concept might be re-engaged in contemporary thought to better understand the reproduction of power and the pursuit of emancipatory politics
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
Lokal, regional, national: Rezension zu "Rechtes Denken, rechte Räume? Demokratiefeindliche Entwicklungen und ihre räumlichen Kontexte" von Lynn Berg und Jan Üblacker (Hg.)
Get PDFLynn Berg / Jan Üblacker (Hg.): Rechtes Denken, rechte Räume?: Demokratiefeindliche Entwicklungen und ihre räumlichen Kontexte. Bielefeld: transcript 2020. 978-3-8376-5108-
Rechte Raumutopien zwischen Wiedergeburt und Verunmöglichung: Kommentar zu Johann Braun und Anke Schwarz „Regression als Aufbruch? Kritische Geographien rechter Zukunftsentwürfe“
Get PDFZukunft in der Rhetorik der Rechten darf in der Analyse nicht einzig auf den Gehalt als Geste, als (populistisches) Instrument im Dienste (radikal) rechter Inhalte reduziert werden. Dass deren nativistisch und exklusivistisch kontaminierte Aufbruchsgesten sich nur vorgeblich auf realisierbare Zukünfte richten, zeigt der Diskussionsbeitrag, indem (palin-)defensive Züge von AfD-Zukunftsrhetorik herausgearbeitet und exemplarisch die Visionen der Partei für großstädtisches Wohnen betrachtet werden, durch die diese hindurchscheinen. Der offensichtliche Schulterschluss mit Kapitalfraktionen, deren Geschäftsmodelle von fortschrittlichen Zukunftsvisionen (i. S. d. Debattenaufschlags) bedroht werden, setzt ebenfalls auf die Verunmöglichung alternativer, unerwünschter Zukünfte und die Exklusion ihrer Vertreter:innen. Vermittelt durch rassistische und sozialchauvinistische Gesellschaftsbilder, treten so Zukünfte in den Debattenraum, deren Implikationen schon auf das Hier und Jetzt wirken und daher in ihren präfigurativen Effekten ernst zu nehmen sind. Faschismustheorien können helfen, diese ambivalenten Funktionen rechter Zukunftsbilder kritisch einzuordnen
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