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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
Locative determiner phrases and locative relative clauses in isiNdebele
No full textThis article discusses the structure of the locative determiner phrase and locative relativisation in isiNdebele. I argue that locative determiner phrases consist of three elements: the locative absolute pronoun, the demonstrative locative and a locative noun. Locative absolute pronouns are heads of locative determiner phrases. The locative absolute pronoun khona selects a locative demonstrative pronoun which takes a locative noun as its complement. I suggest that the locative absolute pronouns have been lost in classes 16, 18, 24 and 25, leaving the class 17 locative absolute pronoun khona as the default locative absolute pronoun in locative determiner phrases. The locative demonstrative pronouns have been lost in classes 17, 18 and 25, leaving classes 16 and 24 as the only locative demonstrative pronouns in isiNdebele. On locative relativisation, I argue that the head of the locative relative is base generated outside the relative clause and that a second position locative demonstrative pronoun lapho serves as a relative pronoun in a locative relative clause. The relative pronoun starts off as a complement of a locative absolute pronoun and then it is extracted from the relativisation site and copied to its surface position, leaving the locative absolute pronoun stranded in the relativisation site
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
The attributive adjective in Zimbabwean isiNdebele
No full textThis article discusses attributive adjectives in Zimbabwean isiNdebele. In traditional grammar, the attributive adjectives are treated as words whose function is to qualify a noun in a noun phrase. According to this analysis, an attributive adjective has the structure: adjective concord (a relative marker a- + a noun class prefix) and an adjective stem. However, there are instances where the attributive function is expressed by a construction that is larger than a word. In these constructions, the relative marker and the noun class prefix may be separated by a subject marker, negation marker, aspect markers, tense markers, inchoactive/auxiliary verbs, or a subject of the relative clause. I present an alternative analysis, according to which the attributive adjectival function is expressed by a relative clause rather than by an adjectival word category. I maintain that adjectival roots in isiNdebele are derived from class neutral roots by merging with an adjectiviser head (adj), and that the function of an adjective is to complement auxiliary verbs and inchoactive verbs in a predicate. I suggest that the relative operator is base generated as a complement of an adjective in an adjective phrase and then moves to spec C via spec in spec Pr and spec T respectively. The C-head a- then affixes to the subject of the relative clause in the formation of strategy 2 relatives and it affixes to T in the formation of strategy 1 relatives
Issues in Zimbabwean Ndebele relatives and relativisation.
Full text linkDoctoral Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.This study discusses issues in relatives and relativisation in Ndebele, a Nguni language that is mainly
spoken in western parts of Zimbabwe. The study focuses on four major issues: (1) the status and the
position of the prefix a- that occurs in Ndebele relative clauses, (2) the relation between the relative
operator/head noun and the resumptive pronoun inside the relative clause, (3) the morphosyntax of
predicative adjectives, and (4) the derivation of attributive adjectives in Ndebele. These issues are
examined within the parameters of the Distributed Morphology framework (Halle, 1990; Halle & Marantz,
1993; Marantz, 1995; Embick & Noyer, 2007; Embick, 2010; 2012 and others). My main submissions in
this thesis are the following: (1) the a- prefix that occurs in Ndebele relative clauses is a complementiser
marker. I argue that there is Complementiser-to-Tense head movement that lowers the complementiser
head after syntax in the formation of strategy 1 relatives. The lowering of the complementiser head to the
Tense head results in the complementiser appearing in an unexpected position in strategy 1 relatives.
(2) The relative operator merges as a complement of a resumptive pronoun in an n*P. The relative
operator is then extracted and copied to spec C leaving the resumptive pronoun stranded in the
relativisation site. I maintain that resumptive pronouns are realisations of the n* layer that selects DPs
and that the n* head can be realised as pro, as a resumptive clitic or as a full resumptive pronoun. (3)
The subject of the adjective is merged as the argument of the root, and then moves to its surface position.
(4) There are three types of adjectives, and all the three types of adjectives are complements of copular
verbs. I maintain that the attributive function of adjectives is fulfilled by a relative clause construction
rather than by an attributive word mainly because Ndebele does not have an attributive adjective word
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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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