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Florian, Illies. "The Magic of Silence" - Caspar David Friedrich's Journey Through Time. S. Fischer Verlag GmbH. 2023. 251 pp.
Full text linkThis year, numerous events have been organized to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of an eminent painter from the Romantic era, Caspar David Friedrich. As a contribution to this significant milestone, the renowned author and journalist Florian Illies has published a compelling book dedicated to this remarkable artist, who is widely regarded as one of the most celebrated and influential German painters in history
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
Adaptation Period of Beginning Teachers from the Point of View of Strategic Documents – Czech Republic and Bavaria
No full textThe beginning teachers represent the most vulnerable group of the teaching population in the Czech Republic. This text aims to compare Czech strategic documents covering teacher’s induction with the German ones. In contrast to the Czech Republic, Germany has a functional and established system of support for beginning teachers during their induction period. This comparison considers the institutional and legislative framework from the perspective of the existing (German) and draft (Czech) documents. The efforts in the Czech Republic emphasise the importance of a “comprehensive system of professional support from a genuine functional induction” (Strategie 2030+). As an example of German ones, the text examines the strategic and legislative frameworkof Referendariat in Bavaria. The text assesses the documents in the following key areas: forms of support, the status and role of the “key stakeholders” (teachers, mentors, responsible persons etc.), the activities and interaction between the key stakeholders. 
The Legiovlak Arrived at the Brno-Slatina Stop
Full text linkOn Saturday, 13 September 2025, a train forming part of the long-term project Legiovlak (i.e. Legion Train)—a commemoration of the legionnaires’ journey at the end of the First World War—was stationed at the Slatina railway depot. This event is closely linked to the life stories of the tens of thousands of Czechoslovak legionnaires who traveled across Russia on such trains between 1918 and 1920 along the Trans-Siberian Railway, often compelled to engage in combat with Bolshevik forces in order to secure their passage. The highlight of the event was a series of guided tours conducted hourly, each led by a guide dressed in a legionnaire’s period uniform
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
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