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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
«Il cielo a bocca aperta...». Valli fra Erminio G. Caputo e Rocco Scotellaro
No full textLe significative posizioni critiche di Donato Valli sui poeti Erminio Giulio Caputo e Rocco Scotellaro evidenziano lo spessore interpretativo e la decisiva capacità di lettura del critico letterario nella perspicua contestualizzazione dei due poeti, sia sul versante storico-letterario, sia sul piano più ampiamente civile e sociale. Nella vorticosa ascesi della parola caputiana Valli individua il senso di una poesia alta e raggrumata, bramosa di una rivelazione, memore di Agostino e Dámaso Alonso. La densità e il travaglio di versi si infrangono, in collisione di sillabe e di emistichi, come voce da frantumi, prima di trovare o scoprire, come in un’apparizione, la soluzione del canto, per ricongiungersi infine in una imprevedibile riappacificazione, con sé e con Dio. Su Scotellaro Valli individua le cogenti ragioni della storia e dell’ideologia, vinte dal fascino della memoria e della parola. Dinanzi ai richiami dei Lumi della ragione, le inchieste del cuore emergono a bilanciare la crudezza dei fatti con l’eco dei miti paesani e larici: la terra appare così densa di passato da avvolgere in esso lo stesso presente. Nell’angoscia della sua continua ‘distrazione’, Scotellaro appare nella condizione di un «innamorato moribondo», in procinto di «svelare un lontano amore agli ultimi istanti». La poesia proclama l’impossibilità della morte e accetta la presenza del passato proprio quando la ragione impone di morire e di vincere le memorie. Così la “distrazione al bivio” si rende scelta impossibile, fra letteraria voce lirica e dolorosa coscienza del mondo nell’universale maleficio, per una grande poesia nata dall’umiltàDonato Valli’s significant critical stances about E. G. Caputo and R. Scotellaro highlight the thickness of his interpretation and the crucial reading skills in the perspicuous contextualization of two poets: they are observed also from a civil and social point of view. The whirlwind ascesis of Caputo poetry indicates the sense of the high lyric research, with clotted verses and with the desire of revelation; so his poetry recalls St Augustine and Dámaso Alonso. The density and the trouble of verses are waves breaking against the shattered sounds, between syllables and hemistichs; then Caputo finds or finds out an epiphany and a solution of song, to meet with himself and with God. Valli identifies also the cogent reasons of history and ideology about Scotellaro, which are won by charme of memory and words. In front of the Enlightenment of Reason, heart investigatons emerge to balance the rawness of the facts with the echo of the village myths and of the Lares, the protectors of the house. The earth appears so dense in the past to envelop the same present with the past. In the anguish of his “distraction”, Scotellaro appears as a «dying lover», about to «reveal a distant love to the last moments». Poetry proclaims the impossibility of death, but it accepts the presence of the past, exactly when the reason requires her to die and to win memories. So the distraction at the crossroads becomes an impossible choice, between the literary poetic voice and the painful conscience in the universal curse, for a great poetry born from humility
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
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
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
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