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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
Investigation, Inversion, Intervention:“Women Artists – Past and Present” by Hellen Lassen, Hanne Lise Thomsen and Else Kallesøe
No full textCuratorial Activism and Practices of Listening: Revisiting Kuratorisk Aktion’s Rethinking Nordic Colonialism (2006)
No full textThis article critically discusses the collective and collaborative curatorial practice of Kuratorisk Aktion, consisting of Danish curators Fred (previously Frederikke) Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen, though the case of their first exhibition project Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006). The exhibition was a pioneering effort, which addressed systemic discrimination and racial silences in relation to minorities and Indigenous people in the Nordic region, through a focus on amnesia in the collective memory around Nordic colonial history. This article examines how the white Danish curators addressed and negotiated asymmetrical power relations between Denmark and Greenland, as well as asymmetries in relation to their own practice as curators and their position as Danes. Further, it analyses how the project assembled practicians from both the so-called Global North and the Global South, to enhance strategies of resistance across geographical divides and create alliances of solidarity across common differences, as suggested by feminist theorist Chandra T. Mohanty (2003). Through this historical example, the article contributes to ongoing discussions of creative forms of resistance, and alliances between arts and social movements in which assemblies and gatherings form generative strategies. This case study suggests how curatorial activism seeking to prevent forms of cognitive extractivism might be understood in relation to practices of listening, whilst reflecting on issues of privilege and authorship in collective and collaborative practices
Curatorial Activism and Practices of Listening: Revisiting Kuratorisk Aktion’s "Rethinking Nordic Colonialism" (2006)
No full textAquest article examina la pràctica curatorial col·lectiva i col·laborativa de Kuratorisk Aktion, fundat per les historiadores d'art i comissàries Frederikke ‘Fred' Hansen i Tone Olaf Nielsen, centrant-se en el seu primer projecte expositiu Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006). L'exposició va abordar la discriminació sistèmica i els silencis racials en relació amb les minories i els pobles indígenes a la regió nòrdica, destacant l'amnèsia col·lectiva que envolta la història colonial nòrdica. Aquest article examina la metodologia curatorial i considera com les comissàries europeees s’enfrontaven a les asimetries històriques entre Dinamarca i Groenlàndia, així com dins de la seva pròpia pràctica i identitat danesa. L'anàlisi se centra en els esforços del projecte per reunir practicants del Nord i del Sud Global a través d'esdeveniments discursius amb l'objectiu de millorar les estratègies de resistència malgrat les divisions geogràfiques, i crear aliances de solidaritat a partir de diferències comunes, com proposen les teòriques feministes com Chandra T. Mohanty (2003). A través d'aquest exemple històric, l'article contribueix a les discussions en curs sobre les formes creatives de resistència, i les aliances entre les arts i els moviments socials en què les assemblees i les reunions formen estratègies generatives. Aquest estudi de cas posa l'accent en l'escolta com a acció política (Lacey, 2013) i com a part d'un ethos decolonial de la relacionalitat (Vásquez, 2020), per suggerir com l'activisme curatorial pot contrarestar l'extractivisme cognitiu, alhora que reflexiona sobre qüestions de privilegi i autoria en pràctiques col·lectives i col·laboratives.This article critically discusses the collective and collaborative curatorial practice of Kuratorisk Aktion, consisting of Danish curators Fred (previously Frederikke) Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen, though the case of their first exhibition project Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts (2006). The exhibition was a pioneering effort, which addressed systemic discrimination and racial silences in relation to minorities and Indigenous people in the Nordic region, through a focus on amnesia in the collective memory around Nordic colonial history. This article examines how the white Danish curators addressed and negotiated asymmetrical power relations between Denmark and Greenland, as well as asymmetries in relation to their own practice as curators and their position as Danes. Further, it analyses how the project assembled practicians from both the so-called Global North and the Global South, to enhance strategies of resistance across geographical divides and create alliances of solidarity across common differences, as suggested by feminist theorist Chandra T. Mohanty (2003). Through this historical example, the article contributes to ongoing discussions of creative forms of resistance, and alliances between arts and social movements in which assemblies and gatherings form generative strategies. This case study suggests how curatorial activism seeking to prevent forms of cognitive extractivism might be understood in relation to practices of listening, whilst reflecting on issues of privilege and authorship in collective and collaborative practices
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