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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
Fin de siècle Balkans: The cultural politics of orientalist imagination at Europe\u27s margin
No full textThis dissertation takes up one of the most fraught areas of Europe, the Balkans. Variously part of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Byzantine Empires, and now often considered part of Central Europe, this region has always been considered Europe’s border between the Orient and the Occident, Christian Europe and the Muslim East. Aiming to clarify the politics of drawing cultural borders in this region, I look into the relations between the Habsburg Monarchy – an empire whose identity was from the beginning constructed on the basis of Catholic Christianity and which thus, for the Balkans, represented the Western European legacy – and the Balkans as an intermediate space between the West and the East. I demonstrate that the simple dichotomy of Orient versus Occident is insufficient to explain the utter complexity of the region. Therefore, I propose that cultural multi-belonging, historical disruption, and recurrence are the essence of the Balkans as a cultural and geo-political space. In order to circumvent the difficulty inherent in drawing the borders of the Balkans, I subdivided the region into four different Sub-Balkans and focused on the “Balkans” of the former Yugoslavia, substantiating my discussions with fourteen main works from the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries written in German, English, and Serbian/Croatian. Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the three regions where the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Byzantine legacies encountered each other in an extremely complex network of political decisions followed by cultural contacts and, therefore, illustrate vividly the above mentioned cultural multi-belonging, historical disruption, and recurrence. The literary analysis brought me to the conclusion that the fictional imagination of the Balkans can only be defined by the ambivalent term “utopian dystopia,” which I coin in my dissertation. This oxymoron encompasses the utopian projections of the Austrian/Habsburg writers onto the Balkans as a “locus amoenus,” a place of intact nature and archaic communities; the dystopian presentations of the Balkans by Balkan authors as an abnormal no-place (ou-topia) onto which the historical tensions of empires have been projected; and, finally, the depictions of the Balkans in the Western media as an eternal or recurring dystopia
The Utopian Space between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans in Handke’s Travelogue "Once again for Thucydides"
Get PDFDieser Beitrag setzt sich mit dem utopischen Raum zwischen Mitteleuropa und dem Balkan in Handkes Reisebericht "Noch einmal für Thukydides" auseinander. Anders als die Historiker und Schriftsteller, die sich darum bemühen, die Idiosynkrasie entweder des einen oder des anderen Raums zu erhellen, schafft Handke einen Zwischenraum mit eigenen Gesetzmäßigkeiten und Eigentümlichkeiten, ja einen dynamischen Raum im Sinne de Certeaus, der von mannigfaltigen Beziehungen nach innen und außen erfüllt ist. Handke offenbart die Idiosynkrasie des Raums durch die Metonymie, mit der die historischen und kulturellen Schichten als gleichgeordnet und gleichzeitig geschildert werden. Zugleich lehrt die Lektüre den Leser beim Reisen die Orte als dynamische Räume zu erleben und mit dem Text zu interagieren, ihn immer neu zu lesen und neuen Bedeutungen nachzugehen.This article discusses the utopian space between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans in Handke’s travelogue Once Again for Thucydides. Unlike historians and writers who aspire to cast light on the idiosyncrasy of either the one or the other space, Handke creates an in-between space with its own laws and peculiarities, indeed a dynamic space in de Certeau’s sense, filled with manifold external and internal relations. Handke reveals the idiosyncrasy of this space through metonymy, depicting all the historical layers as coordinated and simultaneous. At the same time, the text teaches its readers to experience the stations on their journeys as dynamic spaces, and to interact directly with the text, to read it always anew, and to pursue new meanings
The Utopian Space between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans in Handke’s Travelogue "Once again for Thucydides"
Get PDFDieser Beitrag setzt sich mit dem utopischen Raum zwischen Mitteleuropa und dem Balkan in Handkes Reisebericht "Noch einmal für Thukydides" auseinander. Anders als die Historiker und Schriftsteller, die sich darum bemühen, die Idiosynkrasie entweder des einen oder des anderen Raums zu erhellen, schafft Handke einen Zwischenraum mit eigenen Gesetzmäßigkeiten und Eigentümlichkeiten, ja einen dynamischen Raum im Sinne de Certeaus, der von mannigfaltigen Beziehungen nach innen und außen erfüllt ist. Handke offenbart die Idiosynkrasie des Raums durch die Metonymie, mit der die historischen und kulturellen Schichten als gleichgeordnet und gleichzeitig geschildert werden. Zugleich lehrt die Lektüre den Leser beim Reisen die Orte als dynamische Räume zu erleben und mit dem Text zu interagieren, ihn immer neu zu lesen und neuen Bedeutungen nachzugehen.This article discusses the utopian space between Mitteleuropa and the Balkans in Handke’s travelogue Once Again for Thucydides. Unlike historians and writers who aspire to cast light on the idiosyncrasy of either the one or the other space, Handke creates an in-between space with its own laws and peculiarities, indeed a dynamic space in de Certeau’s sense, filled with manifold external and internal relations. Handke reveals the idiosyncrasy of this space through metonymy, depicting all the historical layers as coordinated and simultaneous. At the same time, the text teaches its readers to experience the stations on their journeys as dynamic spaces, and to interact directly with the text, to read it always anew, and to pursue new meanings
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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