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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
AHC interview with Liane Wizniter.
No full textFebruary 8, 2016Liane Wizniter, née Wieselberg was born Feb. 4, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. She was raised in Vienna’s Eighth District on Josefstaedter Strasse 51, where her father owned a fur business. Liane attended gymnasium at Albertgasse 18-22. During his business trips to Germany, Liane’s father became well aware of the danger from the Nazis and invested in foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and in the UK with the help of his brother-in-law.On the day of Anschluss, Dana was forced to scrub the streets. In spring 1939, the family obtained visas for the UK. They took the train via Aachen to Belgium and then a ship to London.After living a year and a half in Cricklewood, London, Liane's uncle and aunt provided affidavits, and the family immigrated to the United States. Initially the Wieselberg's lived in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and then moved to Manhattan. Liane started working in the fur business and eventually became a fur designer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Alice Ciosek.
No full textApril 23, 2016Alice Ciosek, née Fraenkel was born on March 9, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up in the 2nd district on Pazmanitengasse 24, together with her older sister Edith and their parents Max Fraenkel , a painter and decorator, and Frieda Fraenkel, née Amber). Alice finished an apprenticeship as a saleswoman in Vienna’s first district and then worked as a housemaid for several families; after 1938 she worked exclusively for Jewish families.Shortly after the Anschluss, Alice's sister Edith found a job as a housemaid in England and emigrated. In February 1939, Edith managed to find Alice a place as a housemaid for a family in Nottingham. Alice took the train from Austria to Belgium, then transferred to France from where she took a ship to Nottingham, England. A few months after Alice's arrival, Edith immigrated to the United States with her soon-to-be husband. Alice then worked for various families in the UK, predominantly located in London and its suburbs. Alice got married in England, and her sister provided affidavits for Alice and her husband to immigrate to the United States in November 1947. They moved to Brooklyn, New York, and Alice soon started her studies to become a (home) nurse. Alice had two children and settled in Staten Island.Max Fraenkel died in Theresienstadt. Frieda Fraenkel was deported to camps in Eastern Europe and perished in the Holocaust.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Frances Nisenbaum.
No full textJune 14, 2016Frances Nisenbaum, née Frieda Wallach, was born Aug. 11, 1926 in Vienna, Austria but grew up in Wöllersdorf, Lower Austria. In 1932 the family moved to Katzelsdorf close to Wiener Neustadt, where her parents Sigmund and Celia (née Kramer) Wallach established a chicken farm. Frances attended school in Wiener Neustadt until the summer of 1938. Following the November pogrom the parents were imprisoned; Sigmund Wallach was threatened and punished for keeping the family's savings secret. Eventually, the family was released after declaring their emigration to Cuba.Two months later, the family took the train to Hamburg and eventually to Lisbon, from where they emigrated to Cuba by boat. The Wallachs arrived in Cuba in January 1939 and Frieda was accommodated in an orphanage for a short time. The family soon found an apartment in Malecon, Havana. Frances was able to attend a Jewish school nearby. The Joint Distribution Committee supplied the family with money since they were not eligible to work. Due to the Polish emigration quota, Sigmund and Celia were not able to immigrate to the United States until shortly before the end of the war. In 1940, Frances immigrated to New York City on her own. She lived with her aunt in Uptown Manhattan until her parents came and took on jobs as housekeepers for families in Westchester.Frances was granted a scholarship for refugees for the Sanford School in Delaware. In 1944, Frances started the Arcadia University in Philadelphia. Over the years, Frances worked as a social worker and moved to Great Neck, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Frieda E. Wells.
No full textFebruary 16, 2016Frieda Ellen Wells, née Weiss was born in Baden, Austria, on 8/12/1930. She then lived on Hauptplatz in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria with her parents Heinrich and Julia Weiss and brother David. Dr. Heinrich Weiss was the chief-rabbi of Lower Austria; Julia Weiss was originally from Vienna.Shortly after the Anschluss, the family moved to Julia's mother in Vienna. Eventually, the family left Austria and went to Bratislava before going to Prague, where the family obtained their affidavits through Dr. Weiss's cousins in the US. The Weiss family went to Belgium by plane and took the SS Penland from Antwerp to New Jersey. On 1/4/1939 the family arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey. Heinrich Weiss's cousin owned a kosher catering business, which provided the income to rent an apartment for the Weiss family.Julia worked as a nurse, and Rabbi Heinrich Weiss was head of a Yeshiva in New York. Frieda lived with her family on the Upper West Side until she began her science studies at Brooklyn College, New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
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
AHC interview with Kurt Zimbler.
No full textAugust 25, 2015Kurt Zimbler was born1930 in Vienna, Austria, the only child of Max Zimbler (born 1902 in Czernowitz) and Blanka née Friedmann (born 1902 in Vienna). Kurt grew up in a penthouse-like apartment in the first District, in the so called "Siller Haus" - a hotel with some permanent accommodations. His father owned a barber- and beauty shop in Biberstrasse, in the first District, where Blanka Friedmann was working too. After the Anschluss Kurt and his family were evicted from their apartment and moved into Kurt's maternal grandparents’ apartment in Heinestrasse, in the second District. Max Zimbler, his brother, and their father were arrested by the Gestapo and released after less than 24 hours, because they were Romanian citizens. Kurt and his parents studied English with Mr. Koch, a private teacher, because they planned to emigrate to the US. Max Zimbler's siblings had been living in the U.S. for a longer time and provided affidavits for Kurt and Blanka, but Max Zimbler was not allowed to immigrate to the U.S. because of the quota for Romanian citizens; he had to stay in Havana, Cuba, for about two years, before he was able to come to the U.S. - Kurt Zimbler's maternal grandparents were interned in Terezin until the liberation of the concentration camp.Blanka and Kurt reached New York City in the beginning of 1939 on a ship from Hannover. In the beginning they lived in the Bronx at Kurt's uncle's apartment, then moved to Brownsville, Brooklyn, with Blanka's sister and her husband, and then again to the Bronx. When Max Zimbler arrived in New York in 1941, he opened a hair- and beauty shop, and the family moved to Manhattan. Kurt joined the Jewish organization "Young Judea" and eventually graduated from college in the Bronx. He studied Human Resources at Florida State University, before serving in the marine corps, where he received multiple awards for his honorable service; he was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant in 1960. He then worked as an office manager for several companies and started his own recruiting business.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Karl Neumann. October 2015
No full textKarl Neumann (Newman) was born 1931 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ernst and Getrude Neumann. They lived in a small apartment in Donaustadt, Vienna’s 22nd District. In late 1938 he and his sister Greta (born 1932) escaped with the help of a relative of Karl Kautsky to Sweden, where a family took care of them, and they attended school. In 1939 Ernst and Getrude Neumann acquired affidavits for their immigration to New York from a cousin. Their children followed in 1940, after having travelled via Moscow, Vladivostok, the west coast of Japan, Tokyo, Canada, and Seattle. The family moved to Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, where Karl's father worked as a physician. Karl was drafted into the US Navy and then graduated from medical school.October 20, 2015This is Karl Neumann's second interview with the Austrian Heritage Collection.Austrian Heritage Collectio
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
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