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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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Geography and complexity : on the areal differentiation to new cognition of the Earth-World system
Get PDFOrientador: Antonio Carlos VitteTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de GeociênciasResumo: O projeto de conhecimento moderno, entre os séculos XVI e XVIII - da Renascença ao Iluminismo -, buscou construir uma ciência de pretensões universalistas, objetiva e descobridora de leis infinitas. Pretensões expandidas para a moralidade, com os esforços Iluministas voltados à emancipação e libertação humana. Todo o particular e contingente na natureza buscou ser domado e submetido às leis soberanas. A experiência geográfica do período (ex. As grandes descobertas) e a concepção de espaço, a matriz espacial, com o Espaço e Tempo absolutos, homogêneos e infinitos, de Newton, detiveram influência marcante na estruturação deste projeto. O Tempo foi considerado como mais fundamental do que o espaço, traduzido num sentido de 'controle e determinação' na ciência, e de 'progresso histórico' para a sociedade humana. Contudo, bem distanciou-se da emancipação da humanidade ao favorecer a expansão capitalista com base segregação e exploração do homem pelo homem. Essas pretensões, e matriz espacial, entraram em crise no final do século XVIII, quando dentre outras, a experiência geográfica (as explorações naturalistas continentais) trouxeram as particularidades e contingência como não redutíveis às totalizações mecanicistas, exigindo uma nova figura de natureza - orgânica - e sistematização dos fenômenos. A Geografia moderna surge para organizar e estruturar uma nova matriz espacial, com a problemática de se ordenar-universalizar a multiplicidade e particularidades observadas na superfície terra. E foi justamente a partir deste embate entre o universal e o particular, que caracterizou-se o dinamismo da modernidade, e da Geografia enquanto ciência até os dias atuais (internacionalismo/nacionalismo, global/local, sistemático/regional, determinismo/possibilismo, nomotético/idiográfico, Espaço/Lugar). No século XX a crise da matriz espacial e razão se aprofundaram e atingiram uma situação de limiar agora no início do XXI. Importantes mudanças na experiência espacial e desenvolvimentos científicos na primeira metade do XX repercutiram na Geografia depois de 50 com a Nova Geografia, mas que ainda manteve acesas as pretensões de um conhecimento voltado ao universal-infinito. Na segunda metade do século XX, se estabeleceu um 'salto qualitativo' em relação à crise. Tanto na experiência espaçotemporal da Sociedade Informacional, quanto nos avanços na ciência ligados à emergência do contexto da Complexidade, colocaram-se em xeque o sentido de universal e sua relação com o particular, reconhecendo sua paridade e interpenetração. Isso traz perspectivas de ajustes ontológicos e epistemológicos que permitem, tendo a Complexidade como apoio, conceber a possibilidade de construção de uma nova cognição do Sistema Terra-Mundo, referente à construção de um novo projeto de sociedade, conhecimento e humanidade. A Geografia encontra-se numa situação de limiar. Neste vislumbre reconhece-se o caráter fundamental de particularidades histórico-geográficas dos fenômenos da natureza e geográficos. As dualidades e fundos dicotômicos persistentes se dissolvem e fluem numa perspectiva organizacional, sem perder suas distinções e legitimidades. O panorama é de diálogos e comunhões entre as formas de conhecimentos antes pautadas na referência dual, e busca de terceiras proposições. O espaço - as interações espaciais - torna-se o configurador do dinamismo temporal, agora não guia exterior, mas atrelado às particularidades de vivência - temporalidades - dos corpos. O espaço torna-se a coexistência da multiplicidade, das temporalidades; antevê-se uma nova postura de reconstrução do projeto de humanidade, agora a partir do aporte espacial, com respeito à convivência das diferenças. O progresso deixa de ser algo externo e impositor, à favor do capital, para tornar-se vinculado aos objetivos e pretensões específicas em cada caso. A noção de diferenciação de áreas retorna como pertinente baliza para a conjugação destes entendimentos. Destaca-se na reconstrução do projeto de humanidade, pois, as diferenciações, as multiplicidades espacialmente manifestas, colocam em relevo a pertinência e necessidade de se incorporar e desenvolver a alteridade na prática científicaAbstract: The project of modern knowledge born in the time from Renaissance to the Enlightenment between the sixteenth and eighteenth century has sought to build a science of claims related to universality, objectivity and made of endless discoveries of laws. Scientific claims have moved to the construction on morality due to the efforts from the Enlightenment movement that focused on the emancipation and liberation of mankind. Any particular and contingent sense in the nature turned out to be subjected to sovereign scientific laws. The geographical experience of the period (eg. The great discoveries), the conception of space, the spatial matrix, and the absolute, homogeneous and infinite space and time from Newton have apprehended an important influence in the shaping of this project. Time was considered much more fundamental than space, translated into a sense of 'control and determination' for science, and 'historical progress' for the human society, however, well distanced from the emancipation of mankind meanwhile promoting the capitalist expansion based on segregation and exploitation of man by man. These claims and the spatial matrix have come into crisis in the late eighteenth century, when geographical experience (the continental naturalist expeditions - XVIII and XIX), among other things, brought particularity and contingency not reducible to mechanistic holistics, demanding a new figure of nature - organic - and a process of systematization of the phenomena. Modern Geography comes up to organize and structure a new spatial matrix focusing on the diffusion of the multiplicities and particularities observed in the Earth surface. Precisely in the time of this clash between universal and particular starts the dynamism of modernity, and geography as a science so on (international/national, global/local, systemic/regional, determinism/possibilism, nomothetic/idiographic, Space/Place). In the twentieth century the matrix and the rationale crises deepened and reached an edge now at the beginning of the XXI. Major changes in the spatial experience and scientific developments in the first half of the twentieth century have influenced Geography after the 1950s in the New Geography movement, which still keeps alive the aspirations of a knowledge-oriented to the universal. In the second half of the twentieth century, it established a 'quantum leap' in relation to its crisis. The spatial timeline experience of the Information Society and the scientific advances related to the emergence of the Complexity context have put into question the universal meaning and its relation to the particular, recognizing its parity and interpenetration. This brings a perspective for ontological and epistemological adjustments taking for granted Complexity in order to conceive a possibility to build a new cognition of the Earth-World System based on the construction of a new project of society, knowledge and humanity. Geography stood on the edge. It has been recognized in this glimpse the essential character of the historical-geographical particularities of the phenomena from nature and geography. By the time dualities and persistent dicothomic backgrounds are dissolved but also keep flowing without losing their distinctiveness and legitimacies. This is a picture of dialogs, communions between forms of knowledge before they ruled in a dual reference, and finally a search of third propositions. Space - spatial interactions - becomes the designer of temporal dynamism, not an outer guide anymore, tied to the particularities of experience of the bodies - temporalities. Space becomes the locus for the coexistence of multiplicity, temporalities, envisioning a new approach to the reconstruction project of humanity based on the spatial input and the respect to the coexistence of differences. Progress is no longer something external or made of enforcement in favor of the capital. It becomes linked to specific goals and aspirations in each case. The concept of differentiation of areas returns as a relevant signal for the combination of these understandings. Stands out in the reconstruction project of humanity, therefore the manifest spatial differences and multiplicities highlight the importance and need to incorporate and develop the otherness in the scientific practiceDoutoradoAnálise Ambiental e Dinâmica TerritorialDoutor em Ciência
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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