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Elektronische Zeitschriften an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken - neue Kommunikationsformen und Aufgabenfelder für Wissenschaftler und Bibliothekare
No full textElektronische Zeitschriften an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken - neue Kommunikationsformen und Aufgabenfelder für Wissenschaftler und Bibliothekare
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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
Neue Porträts: Autorschaft, Männlichkeit und der Künstler als ‘Anderer’ im anglo-karibischen Künstlerroman, 1954–1991
Get PDFThis thesis focuses on artistic self-fashioning in light of difference in the Anglo-Caribbean novel in Britain between 1954 and 1991. It enquires into the influence of a specific generic tradition on the Caribbean novel: the Künstlerroman, or artist novel. I posit that in the mid-twentieth century, a new type of text emerged which set the – often hindered – artist, most often an author, centre stage as a category for negotiating ontological and epistemological questions. I illustrate this by drawing on five exemplary case studies: these are George Lamming’s The Emigrants (1954), Wilson Harris’s The Eye of the Scarecrow (1965), Samuel Selvon’s ‘London Trilogy’, comprising The Lonely Londoners (1956), Moses Ascending (1975), and Moses Migrating (1983), with a particular focus on the second novel in this trilogy, V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival (1987), and David Dabydeen’s The Intended (1991). This study emerges from the observation that male-authored novels in the decades after Windrush foreground questions of writing, gender, and sexuality and interconnect these themes in staging processes of artistic self-fashioning and position-taking. My central thesis is that the Anglo-Caribbean novel draws on the tradition and generic framework of the Künstlerroman, self-reflexively stages and refracts its structural items and myths, and thereby explores and participates in the formation of artistic subjectivity and literary authority under the premises of difference. In articulating the complexities and pitfalls of specifically writerly activity in the context of diaspora, the texts negotiate the Caribbean writer’s positionality in the cultural field and the demands levelled on artists by drawing on a genre that has historically always served to elucidate writerly subject formation and the writer’s relation to matters of aesthetics and politics. The artist figure as interconnecting discourses of authorship, masculinity, race, and ethnicity serves authors to negotiate the epistemologies of a European literary tradition and matters of canon formation, to expose the myths that underlie artistry and authority, and to develop strategies of self-positioning and -authorisation as ‘other’ vis-à-vis this tradition and within the public sphere
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
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