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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
Wegweiser aus dem Trauma? Amerikanische Romane nach dem 11. September
Full text linkArticle about American novels that directly treat the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001. After a short introduction to various concepts and theories of trauma, the article discusses the usefulness of "trauma" in an analysis of literary production regarding an event like 9/11. The article also shows the difficult development many writers experienced before tackling 9/11 in a novel. Major novels analyzed are Reynold Price's The Good Priest's Son, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Lynn Sharon Schwartz's The Writing on the Wall, Don DeLillo's Falling Man and Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days
'Unexpected Affinities' and 'Fatal Errors': Ambiguities in the Romantic Reception of Confucius
Full text linkThis is a study of the very first British translations of the writings of the Chinese philosopher, Confucius into English. It discusses the early engagements of Thomas Percy and William Jones with the texts before discussing the translations produced by the Serampore Baptist Missionary, Joshua Marshman and those by the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca. It argues that the presence of Confucius in Enlightenment thought is diminished by a Protestant missionary 'Romantic Sinology'
The future of the semantics/pragmatics interface(s)
No full textThis paper argues that it is time to consider a paradigm change in semantics and pragmatics. The present paradigm prioritises a distinction between truth conditional meaning and non-truth conditional meaning. This distinction has merit for many parts of a natural language. But a truth conditional bias in semantics does not help, and has not helped for several thousand years, in the analysis of indicative conditional sentences. Indicative conditionals do not have truth conditions: they are not a part of fact-stating discourse. The new paradigm recognises and exploits this intuition. The new paradigm, for conditionals, replaces truth conditions with subjective conditional probabilities and recognises that we must acknowledge that “different parts of our language have meaning in different ways” (Kneale, 1949: 89). This acknowledgement has implications both for current conceptions of the semantics-pragmatics interface and for a theory of the interface between truth conditional and probabilistic semantics
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
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