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Canadian progress and the British connection: why Canadian historians seeking the middle road should give 2½ cheers for the British Empire
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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
The “Taint of Self”: Reflections on Ralph Connor, his Fans, and the Problem of Morality in Recent Canadian Historiography
Get PDFThis article is an examination of the protestant moral world of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canada, as presented in the novels of the popular Canadian writer Ralph Connor, and the fan-mail that he received. At the same time the article discusses the difficulties encountered by modern day social and cultural historians when interpreting this protestant moral vision. The article suggests that we look to the ideas of philosopher Charles Taylor and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb in order to better appreciate how the language and understanding of morality changed over the course of the twentieth-century, and thereby re-examine our assumptions about the inherent usefulness of categories such as regulation and discipline in our historical accounts of morality. Cet article s’intéresse à l’univers de la morale protestante du Canada de la fin du XIX e siècle et du début du XX e siècle ainsi que la dépeignent les romans du populaire écrivain canadien Ralph Connor et les lettres d’admirateurs qu’il a reçues. L’article se penche également sur les difficultés d’interprétation de la morale protestante auxquelles se heurtent de nos jours les historiens de la société et de la culture. On y suggère de se tourner vers les idées du philosophe Charles Taylor et de l’historienne Gertrude Himmelfarb afin de mieux comprendre en quoi le langage et l’entendement de la moralité ont évolué au XX e siècle et d’ainsi réexaminer nos présomptions quant à l’utilité inhérente de catégories telles que la régulation et la discipline de nos comptes rendus historiques de la moralité
Cook , Tim – Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012. Pp. 472.
Get PDFDispelling 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
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