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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
Imaginary Transatlantic Crossings: Textual Configurations of Domesticity and Foreignhood in Emily Dickinson's Italian Atlas
No full textBasically intersecting transnational and spatial theoretical perspectives,
this essay aims at a deeper understanding of Emily Dickinson’s internationalism, by
focusing on Dickinson’s textual domestication of Italian-related images. Dickinson’s
imaginary transatlantic voyage testifies to a peculiar use of Italy which actually reshapes
the conventional travel rhetoric and, in so doing, Dickinson significantly partakes in the
aesthetic construction of the nineteenth-century American textual space
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
La figura di Edgar Allan Poe nella cultura letteraria italiana tra Ottocento e Novecento: il caso delle edizioni Sonzogno
No full textCollocandosi all’interno del filone di studi sulla letteratura tradotta, l’articolo indaga le modalità di adattamento e di circolazione dei racconti di Edgar Allan Poe nel panorama letterario italiano tra gli anni Ottanta del XIX secolo e gli anni Trenta del Novecento. Il caso di studio fornito da quattro traduzioni della casa editrice milanese Sonzogno pubblicate dal 1883 al 1934 (Racconti straordinari, Nuovi racconti straordinari, Racconti grotteschi e Nuovi racconti strani) è indicativo delle particolari strategie messe in campo dai mediatori italiani (l’editore e i diversi traduttori), finalizzate alla popolarizzazione della figura dello scrittore americano e della sua opera
Letteratura americana e Rinascimento italiano. Dal mito storico al discorso letterario. 1776-1862
Get PDFConiugando gli strumenti critici e metodologici dei Translation Studies, del neostoricismo e della sociologia della letteratura, Letteratura americana e Rinascimento italiano si propone di ripercorrere in chiave transnazionale la storia letteraria degli Stati Uniti nel periodo che si estende dalla Rivoluzione alla Guerra Civile. Il volume prende in considerazione modalità e strategie di adattamento del Rinascimento italiano alla luce delle differenti funzioni assunte da questo modello nella nascita e nel consolidamento della letteratura nazionale americana attraverso una serie di autori (tra questi, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph W. Emerson). Lo studio approfondisce, quindi, le radici storico-letterarie di un binomio teorico – quello tra Rinascimento e America – finora rimasto limitato quasi esclusivamente alla sua applicazione in campo critico, il cui vertice è rappresentato dall’American Renaissance di Francis Otto Matthiessen e dalle relative riformulazioni. In questa ottica, la progressiva trasformazione della mitologia storica del Rinascimento in stratificato discorso letterario viene esaminata attraverso il confronto ravvicinato e l’analisi comparata di una pluralità di testi appartenenti a diversi generi, che spaziano dalla trattatistica politica alla narrativa, dalla poesia alla critica letteraria
L’ékphrasis modernista di William Carlos Williams: modalità di rappresentazione intersemiotica e transculturale
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