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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
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
Vegan or Vegetarian? An Investigation into the Current Usage of the Terms in English, French, Spanish and Italian
No full textThis paper aims to verify the successfulness of the definitions of the terms “vegan” and
“vegetarian” in English, French, Spanish and Italian in conveying their authentic meanings. In brief, after a first research step aimed at the identification of the etymology and the original meanings of the terms in object, a comparison of their lexical definitions in three dictionaries per each language will be provided with the purpose of verifying the degree of lexicalization in each language and shedding light on the distinctive semantic traits of each term. As a matter of fact, there is still a lack of awareness about the differences between these eating practices and the related sub-categories, though, several medical and food related magazines and websites have provided their own insight into the distinctive features of the two concepts. The interest in this issue stems from the positive response these eating practices are receiving lately. Veganism and vegetarianism have emerged as alternatives to “ordinary” eating habits, especially because of an increased awareness of animal rights and the acceptance of theories considering meat as unhealthy for humans. As a matter of fact, according to the 2014 “Meat Atlas of the Friends of the Earth” and the “Heinrich Böll Foundation” there are over 375 million of vegetarians worldwide, 74 million in Europe
Élaboration d’un module de français de spécialité à l’aide des TICE: le français de la croisière au sein des instituts de tourisme
No full textIn Italian technical institutes for tourism, the interest in cruises is growing. Therefore, the present contribution
aims at presenting the different steps of a module of specialized French focused on cruise lexicon.
This research will try to approach the didactics of cruise terminology by using information and communication
technologies for teaching. While, at first, it will be investigated how this type of didactics
borrows the tools of corpus linguistics for the collection of terms and concepts, later, the role of digital
lexicographical resources in understanding and assimilating meanings will be taken into account; finally,
the possibilities offered by writing tools in the reuse of the collected terminology and the opportunities
offered by the Web in knowledge sharing in classrooms will be examined
La phraséologie collocationnelle du discours touristique français: une étude à partir du genre de la brochure
Get PDFLately, linguists’ interest in general and terminological phraseology has increased. After reviewing the major features of the distinctive tourism text types and, in particular, the brochure one, this contribution aims at presenting an analysis of some phraseological units, semi-automatically extracted from a corpus composed of the most recent brochures, created within the marketing offices of the main French tour operators. Indeed, it is undeniable that tourism discourse is rich in phraseological units; therefore, our purpose is to show how some tourism terms represent the keywords of typical collocations, sometimes not yet listed in the French dictionaries.Au cours de ces dernières années, l’intérêt des linguistes envers la phraséologie (qu’elle soit générale ou terminologique) a augmenté. Dans la présente contribution, après avoir passé en revue les caractéristiques saillantes des genres typiques de la communication touristique et, en particulier, celles de la brochure, nous nous proposons d’aborder l’analyse de certaines unités phraséologiques tirées, de façon semi-automatique, d’un corpus constitué des brochures les plus récentes créées au sein des bureaux de marketing des principaux voyagistes français. Partant du constat que le discours touristique regorge d’unités phraséologiques, notre but est celui de démontrer que certains termes de la langue du tourisme font l’objet de collocations privilégiées, parfois pas encore répertoriées dans les dictionnaires de référence de la langue française
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