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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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
Der schmale Grat zwischen Mondo- und Essayfilm : Killing of America von Sheldon Renan und Leonard Schrader
Während der Achtziger Jahre in den USA war der Traum vom großen Geld für viele zum Greifen nah. Diese Wunschvorstellung zerplatzte allerdings an der wirtschaftlichen Lage. Es war „ein Jahrzehnt in dem der Yuppie-Wahn und die unzähligen Aufstiegsträume in der Rezession zerkrachten. Man fühlte sich sozial und wirtschaftlich höchst verunsichert.“ Der Autor Bret Easton Ellis beschreibt die Lage der Nation anhand eines Individuums in seinem Roman American Psycho. Die Hauptfigur des Buches mit dem Namen Patrick Bateman ist Bestandteil der in diesem Jahrzehnt aufkommenden Yuppie-Kultur. Niemand erkennt, dass sich hinter dieser wirtschaftlich erfolgreichen Person ein Serienmörder verbirgt. Der Protagonist mit zutiefst antagonistischen Zügen beschreibt sich selbst folgendermaßen: „Mein Ich ist künstlich, eine Anomalie. Ich bin ein unkontingentes menschliches Wesen. Meine Persönlichkeit ist rudimentär und ungeformt, meine Herzlosigkeit geht tief und ist gefestigt[…] Niemand ist sicher, nichts ist gesühnt.“ Diese Erkenntnis spiegelt die gewinnorientierte und gefühlskalte Mentalität der amerikanischen Gesellschaft in jener Zeit wider. Gleichzeitig beschreibt sie die heillose Suche der Amerikaner nach Sicherheit. Bateman verkörpert den amerikanischen Drang nach Freiheit und Erfolg, er geht dafür sogar über Leichen
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We 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
Licht und Schatten : La Maschera del Demonio und I tre volti della Paura von Mario Bava
Die Filme von Mario Bava wurden über einen langen Zeitraum hinweg übersehen. Er ist vor allem ein Filmemacher, der von anderen Regisseuren geschätzt wird. So beschreiben zum Beispiel Künstler wie Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Dario Argento oder auch Tim Burton, Bava als einen großen Einfluß für ihre Filme. Erst in den letzten Jahren, durch das digitale Medium der DVD, sind Bavas Filme wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Immer mehr Werke des italienischen Filmemachers gelangen an die Oberfläche und machen den immensen Einfluß seiner Filme auf das Horrorgenre offensichtlich
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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