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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
Transparent (Support) Structures: On Visibility and Social Reproduction in Socially Engaged Art : Transparente (Unterstützungs-)Strukturen: Über Sichtbarkeit und soziale Reproduktion in sozial engagierter Kunst
No full textGender, affect and art's alternative workplaces: a feminist critique of socially engaged art paradigms in Europe
No full textSocially engaged art has become fully integrated into international artistic events
and policy programmes, particularly in the aftermath of social movements such as
Occupy in the United States or the Indignados in Spain (2010s), that emerged in
response to the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Against this background, the overlaps
– in values, vocabulary, management, and production models – between alternative
artistic practices and late capitalist production paradigms are increasingly evident.
Drawing on materialist feminism, Social Reproduction Theory, and the legacy of
practices and theories associated with the Wages for Housework campaign (1970s),
this thesis aims to re-centre labour within discussions of socially engaged art and to
deepen the critical analysis of the interrelations between social practices and
feminist politics. Working from the suggestion of ‘art's alternative workplaces’, the
analysis reveals that while conventional working and organising patterns are
indeed a primary site of feminist critique and action, these tend to be reiterated
through such projects.
Rather than focus narrowly on artworks, in the study I examine the artistic,
curatorial and organisational processes initiated by feminist collectives and
practitioners, as well as by art workers' advocacy groups, across Europe. I discuss
how these initiatives engage with labour as a site of political prefiguration, tracing
an analytical trajectory that connects feminist artistic practices from the 1970s to the
2010s and beyond. The thesis thus investigates the transgenerational and
transgeographical articulation of demands, figures, and strategies, as well as the
ways in which they might inform extant positions and research paths. Although
Europe constitutes the overarching geographical framework of the research, I
consider the historical and political specificities of different nations to develop a
more nuanced understanding of how these contexts have influenced the evolution
and present form of social practices and their study.
While grounded in historical contextualisation, the thesis refrains from
proposing a feminist canonisation of socially engaged art. Instead, the main goal is
to critically examine how art workers navigate the power and economic structures
that underpin feminist or feminist-informed socially engaged art experiences,
alongside the modes of collaboration and the subjectivities engendered in these
processes. The thesis combines case studies with theoretical analyses and is
organised around three positions – the activist, the artistic, and the curatorial –
which converge in the final section. This structure enables an examination of the
subject at hand from diverse historical and professional perspectives, shedding light
on trends and overlaps. For instance, I discuss the debates and contradictions
surrounding the ‘wage demand’ by art workers' advocacy groups in light of the
WfH campaign, along with the challenges presented by instituting practices in
grassroots self-organising and curatorial-led institutional reconfiguration. The case
studies examined demonstrate a heightened awareness in challenging the potential
ambiguity of ‘social engagement’ by working through contingent material issues
and needs, engaging as possible with extant contradictions and compromises to
materialise such alternatives into shared practices and infrastructures. This
approach, often disenchanted yet committed, frequently stretches beyond the
confines of art to reflect on wider political mobilisations, redirecting energies,
strategies, and demands when the opportunities for counter-hegemonic political
action against capital’s imperative are increasingly restricted and controlled.
By adopting a more expansive framework for the study of socially engaged
art – in terms of theoretical frameworks, methods, subjects and processes
considered – the thesis aims to develop a feminist critique of the forms of labour
and material-social infrastructures underpinning these practices. It also considers
the potentials that such practices continue to offer within the contemporary
European geopolitical context, characterised by significant power and economic
disparities and a highly uneven art scene and infrastructure, along with the rise of
authoritarian liberalism and the progressive weakening and restriction of political
action
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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