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Tyveri! - til sekulariseringens semantik
Get PDFSom afslutning på dette nummers tema, leverer Ph.d.-studerende Frank Beck Lassen i artiklen ”Tyveri! Til sekulariseringens semantik og begrebshistoriens selvforståelse” en kritisk replik til det sekulariseringsbegreb, der på uudtalte måder strukturerer den historiske forståelse hos Reinhart Koselleck. Ved at pege på et metaforisk lag i sekulariseringsbegrebets semantik, som begrebshistorien med sit specifikt begrebslige fokus til tider har vanskeligt ved at få øje på, peger Lassen på en række sproglige fænomener der kan supplere og raffinere Kosellecks variant af begrebshistorien
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
Contemplating the Monster: UK National Press Treatment of the Frank Beck Affair
No full text In November 1991, at Leicester Crown Court, Frank Beck was sentenced to five life terms and twenty-four years' imprisonment for sexual abuse during his work as a residential social worker. His activities resulted in four official reports. Given the scale of his wrong-doing, surely a torrent of sensational coverage would have been predicted at every stage of these events? Yet neither the trial nor the official reports received high profile press treatment. This relative silence about a major criminal episode with fundamental policy implications graphically illustrates the social construction of news. It is first described, and then analysed in terms of the daily practices, the political preoccupations, and the framing devices that constitute ‘news’ in UK national newspapers. </jats:p
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
Læselighed og fantasi i d’Alembert og Diderots encyklopædi
Get PDFFrank Beck Lassen tager i sit bidrag udgangspunkt i oplysningstiden, hvor den menneskelige viden om verden efterhånden er akkumuleret til et uoverskueligt niveau. Samtidig med denne akkumulation af viden er mennesket selv – siden renæssancen og det naturvidenskabelige gennembrud – kommet stadig mere i centrum for sin egen tilværelse, og til oplysningsprojektet hører en idé om et historisk og samfundsmæssigt fremskridt, som snarere er lagt i menneskets hænder end i Guds forsyn. En sådan situation kan virke skræmmende, men også forjættende; det sidste var tilfældet for redaktørerne af den store franske encyklopædi, d’Alembert og Diderot. Beck Lassen viser i sin artikel, med støtte fra Hans Blumenberg og andre, hvordan encyklopædisterne forsøger at gøre denne nye, uoverskuelige verden læselig ved simpelthen at samle den i en bog, et opslagsværk – dels i form af artikler om dette og hint, og dels via forsøg på at anskueliggøre de efterhånden mange (mulige) verdner via opfindsomme billeder og plancher. Alt sammen med den universalistiske ambition om at tilvejebringe en overordnet systematisk sammenhæng mellem del og helhed. På det praktiske plan virker den nye mangfoldighed af (mulige) verdener ikke mindst æggende på fantasien, der får et stort udfoldelsespotentiale i forbindelse med udviklingen af tidens nyfødte barn – den gryende teknologi – som før industrialiseringen endnu har taget fat og fart, stadig fremstilles med et imødekommende ansigt
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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