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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
« Ils s'installent sur nous / ils habitent à l'intérieur » : L'accord de A. M. Pires Cabral avec les oiseaux
Full text linkRecent studies prove that imagination is a constructive process that transports the reader from one place to another, from one time to another, offering the possibility to inhabit another consciousness. To interpret, which in itself is an act of attention, opens a door to otherness, to kinship and empathy, asking from us affective responses towards human and nonhuman others. Drawing upon an ecocritical perspective, this paper considers how the depiction of birds in A. M. Pires Cabral’s poetry illustrates the way human dialogue with the nonhuman is a powerful tool in contemporary rediscovery of nature. The paper argues that by thinking with birds, the poet transforms not only his own self, but also the way readers envision the nonhuman other. Although Cabral’s passion for birds is not unique but part of a tradition that goes back to medieval bestiaries, I argue that at a time of biodiversity rarefaction his poetic depiction of birds is an expression of the human affection attuned to the more-than-human world; mostly, however, this paper invites discussion on the poet’s multilayered affection for birds as a result of his recognition that thinking with birds prompts, ultimately, deeper thinking about human beings.Estudios recientes demuestran que la imaginación es un proceso constructivo que transporta al lector de un lugar a otro, de un tiempo a otro, ofreciéndole la posibilidad de habitar otra conciencia. Interpretar, que en sí mismo es un acto de atención, abre una puerta a la alteridad, al parentesco y a la empatía, al tiempo que requiere de nosotros respuestas afectivas hacia los otros humanos y no humanos. Desde una perspectiva ecocrítica, este artículo examina cómo la representación de las aves en la poesía de A. M. Pires Cabral ilustra el modo en que el diálogo humano con lo no humano es una poderosa herramienta para el redescubrimiento contemporáneo de la naturaleza. El artículo sostiene que, al pensar con los pájaros, el poeta transforma no solo su propio yo, sino también el modo en que los lectores ven al otro no humano. Aunque la pasión de Cabral por los pájaros no es única, sino que forma parte de una tradición que se remonta a los bestiarios medievales, el presente artículo sostiene que, en una época de rarefacción de la biodiversidad, su representación poética es una expresión del afecto humano en sintonía con el mundo más-que-humano; sobre todo, este artículo invita al debate sobre el afecto de múltiples capas del poeta por los pájaros como resultado de su reconocimiento de que pensar con los pájaros provoca, en última instancia, un pensamiento más profundo sobre los seres humanos.Des études récentes montrent que l'imagination est un processus constructif qui transporte le lecteur d'un lieu à un autre, d'un temps à un autre, offrant la possibilité d'habiter une autre conscience. L'interprétation, qui est en soi un acte d'attention, ouvre une porte à l'altérité, à la parenté et à l'empathie, nous demandant des réponses affectives envers les autres humains et non-humains. Dans une perspective écocritique, cet article examine comment la représentation des oiseaux dans la poésie de A. M. Pires Cabral illustre la manière dont le dialogue humain avec le non-humain est un outil puissant pour la redécouverte contemporaine de la nature. L'article soutient qu'en pensant aux oiseaux, le poète transforme non seulement son propre moi, mais aussi la façon dont les lecteurs voient l'autre, le non-humain. Bien que la passion de Cabral pour les oiseaux ne soit pas unique (elle s'inscrit dans une tradition remontant aux bestiaires médiévaux) cet article soutient qu'à une époque de raréfaction de la biodiversité, sa représentation poétique est l'expression d'une affection humaine en phase avec le monde plus qu'humain ; avant tout, cet article propose une discussion sur l'affection, à plusieurs niveaux, du poète pour les oiseaux, car il reconnaît que penser avec les oiseaux provoque en fin de compte une réflexion plus profonde sur les êtres humains
Ecopoetic place-making: nature and mobility in contemporary American poetry [reseña de libro]
No full textReseña del libro: Judith Rauscher, Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023), 277 p
Questions to tourists stopped by Walden pond: Waterscapes, words and literary tourism
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to analyze the meaning of Walden Pond, a real body of water between Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts, as it appears in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854). This pond is first and foremost a place on whose shores the writer decided to live between 1845 and 1847. Secondly, the literary representation of the lake functions as a symbol of simplicity, of observation and knowledge, and, in this sense, I seek to investigate how Thoreau’s words about the Walden pond have contributed to the (trans)formation of readers’ and tourists’ minds. Moreover, my interest is to draw from works about literary tourism and to see how literary words construct the tourist vision, as “in literary tourism, narratives act as the primary source of information about a place, stimulating motivation to travel” (Charapan & Mikulich, 2019). Thus, my proposal aims to show that because water is characterized as mirrorlike, windowlike, and with no definite shape it is a fertile metaphor for poetic imagery. Additionally, to evince that (literary) words, place, waterscapes and tourists interrelate in the forging of (new) consciousnesses, better suited to practice reverence for our common home
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
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