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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
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
Here's My Only Question ; followed by Such a Simple Trick
Full text linkCe mémoire de recherche-création est composé de deux parties. Here's My Only Question est un recueil de textes non fictionnels écrits dans la langue et la tradition de l'essai dit « personnel », en littératures américaine et britannique. Mené par le questionnement Qu'est-ce qu'être conscient et présent dans le monde?, l'auteur raconte, au travers de cinq essais distincts, son expérience avec les symptômes à l'allure de brouillard causés par une condition inflammatoire chronique, à savoir la maladie de Lyme neurologique. Such a Simple Trick est un essai sur l'art de l'essai, divisé en cinq chapitres. Tressés de thèmes tels ceux de la magie et du don, et inspirés par des études tirées des sciences cognitives et des neurosciences, ces chapitres abordent le rôle qu'ont joué l'imaginaire narratif (le fait de « penser en histoires »), la pleine conscience et la compréhension de soi afin de guider l'auteur à travers l'élaboration de son art, et éclairer son chemin vers une écriture sincère et fidèle à lui-même.
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MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : essai personnel, récit de la maladie, magie, don, imaginaire narrati
“A tough bitch”: Lynn Margulis and the Gaian sublime
Full text linkThis essay challenges Bruno Latour’s elegiac pronouncement of the sublime’s death in the Anthropocene, proposing instead a “Gaian sublime” emerging from Lynn Margulis’s radical reconceptualization of planetary life. Analysis of Margulis’s scientific nonfiction reveals how her work on microbial agency and symbiosis disrupts traditional sublime theory’s emphasis on human transcendence and geological spectacle. The essay traces how sublime aesthetics, from Longinus through Burke and Kant to contemporary environmental thought, has historically reinforced racial hierarchies, gender binaries, and human exceptionalism. Margulis’s perspective offers acrucial corrective by revealing Earth’s smallest inhabitants as its most profound transformers, generating sublime experience not through nature’s brute force but through recognition of life’s collaborative creativity across scales and through deep time. This reframing moves beyond both conventional sublime theory and contemporary Anthropocene discourse, demonstrating how scientific understanding might enhance rather than diminish the capacity for awe and wonder. The Gaian sublime thus emerges as both aesthetic category and mode of attention, potentially enabling more ethically attuned relationships with our living planet.Este ensayo cuestiona el pronunciamiento elegiaco de Bruno Latour sobre la muerte de lo sublime en el Antropoceno, proponiendo en su lugar un “sublime gaiano” que emerge de la reconceptualización radical de la vida planetaria de Lynn Margulis. El análisis detallado de los escritos científicos de Margulis revela cómo su trabajo sobre la agencia microbiana y la simbiosis interrumpe fundamentalmente el énfasis de la teoría tradicional de lo sublime en la trascendencia humana y el espectáculo geológico. El ensayo rastrea cómo la estética de lo sublime, desde Longino hasta Burke y Kant hasta el pensamiento ambiental contemporáneo, ha reforzado históricamente las jerarquías raciales, los binarios de género y el excepcionalismo humano. La perspectiva de Margulis ofrece un correctivo crucial al revelar a los habitantes más pequeños de la Tierra como sus transformadores más profundos, generando una experiencia sublime no a través de la fuerza bruta de la naturaleza sino a través del reconocimiento de la creatividad colaborativa de la vida a través de escalas y tiempo profundo. Este replanteamiento va más allá tanto de la teoría sublime convencional como del discurso contemporáneo del Antropoceno, demostrando cómo la comprensión científica podría mejorar en lugar de disminuir la capacidad de asombro. El sublime gaiano emerge así como categoría estética y modo de atención, permitiendo potencialmente relaciones más éticamente sintonizadas con nuestro planeta viviente
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