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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
Wielokulturowość w Bośni i Hercegowinie
No full textThe essay amplifies the important findings in the study of elopement and kinship titled “Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina” published at Central
European University Press in 2014. The psychology, cultural, and sociological significances of a young woman “stealing herself” to marry are reviewed in terms of how the social action in
collusion with her suitor eventually gives character to the larger society. The marriage custom is understood within the dominant kinship pattern that gives emphasis to marriage rather than
blood or affinal relations rather than agnatic relations, the point being to demonstrate how elopement and the subsequent affinal visitations that immediately follow are complementary rites of passage. The essay concludes with recommendations for future research in both Bosnia- Herzegovina and the wider region.W eseju podkreślono istotne wnioski z badania nad zwyczajem ucieczki młodych w celu zawarcia związku małżeńskiego [ang. elopement] oraz stopniem pokrewieństwa noszącego tytuł„Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina” [Dogłębne spojrzenie na zwyczaj ucieczki młodych i stopnie pokrewieństwa w Bośni i Hercegowinie – przyp. tłum] wydanego przez Central European University Press w 2014 r. Psychologiczne, kulturowe i socjologiczne znaczenia zwyczaju ucieczki młodej kobiety, która „zdobywa się” na zamążpójście,
rozważane są z perspektywy wpływu, jaki czyn ten, popełniany w zmowie z zalotnikiem, ma na całe społeczeństwo. Zwyczaj małżeństwa rozumiany jest w kontekście powszechnego wzorca
pokrewieństwa, w którym małżeństwo uznawane jest za ważniejsze niż więzy krwi, a powinowactwo wynikające z małżeństwa za ważniejsze niż pokrewieństwo w linii ojca, co dowodzi, że ucieczka, a następnie spotkanie rodziców pary młodej połączone z ceremonią ustanowienia stosunku powinowactwa są uzupełniającymi się rytuałami przejścia. Esej kończą rekomendacje na potrzeby przyszłych badań zarówno w Bośni i Hercegowinie, jak i w większym regionie
Kinship Variations and Ethnic Identity
Get PDFA public address by professor Keith Doubt of Wittenberg University.
In collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis 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
Photojournalism and War Crimes: Ethical and Humanistic Limits
No full textWhile traveling with the war criminal Arkan and his militia in 1992 in Bosnia, the photojournalist, Ron Haviv, took numerous award winning photos of the bodies of murdered civilians and civilians about to be executed. One photo shows a young man pleading for his life to the camera. While Arkan’s militia ordered Haviv not to take these photographs, Haviv nevertheless did. When Haviv’s images were presented at the Hague to indict Arkan, Arkan put Haviv on a death list.
It is unrealistic, given Haviv’s powerlessness in this situation, to expect him to intervene on behalf of the civilians being executed. Moreover, Haviv was Arkan’s guest. Still, it is important to ask to what degree Haviv’s presence contributed to the war crimes that were occurring? How did a person being executed feel about being photographed before being executed? Was Haviv an unwitting accomplice to the pogrom? Was his camera a mirror in which war criminals promoted their terrifying mages to the world and the victims’ community? Is there a degree of necrophilia in war photojournalism?
Genocide survivors in Rwanda say it is morally unconscionable to take a picture of a genocide victim during a genocide; their reflections are extrapolated to the subjects Haviv photographed in order to recover the victims’ perspective
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
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