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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
On Putnam : Bowling Together - Applying Putnam’s Theories of Community and Social Capital to Public Relations
No full textAlthough the concept of Social Capital is by no means new, it has certainly spread more widely
due to the writings of Robert D. Putnam. His writings have underlined the importance of civic
engagement and social ties for the welfare of individuals and societies at large. Putnam’s theories
lay the foundation for an understanding of the broader societal functions of public relations, and
offer useful concepts and ideas for both theory and practice. Putnam’s theory of social capital
posits that the success of societies greatly depends on the horizontal bonds of collaboration: only
trust-filled long-term relations, such as associations and clubs, are able to generate the cohesion
that brings societal benefits such as lower crime rates, increased health, happiness and even
economic prosperity. Understanding how a sense of community is fostered is vital as society
continues to polarize and it becomes the task of communication professionals to build bridges
between opposing views. The creation and maintenance of organizational social capital can be
seen as a foundation for public relations. In fact, organizations with reciprocal, trusting
stakeholder networks can be understood as having high amounts of social capital, which in turn
makes organizations resilient and anti-fragile even in a chaotic environment.peerReviewe
On Bauman: Power, ethics and social hermeneutics
No full textWith the concept of liquid modernity - Bauman offers an understanding of postmodern society as a continuation of modernity. His idea of adiaphorization could inspire the pursuit of a sociological explanation of the problem of ethics in public relations practice. Responding to Bauman in research terms directs us towards hermeneutic phenomenology as an approach to illuminate public relations practice by exploring tensions and structures within the experience of the individual consciousness of practitioners. A number of specific points are offered in relation to the potential of Bauman's work to contribute to research, pedagogy, and practice in public relations. These could be summarized under terms drawn from the sphere of Bauman's thought such as: nomadism, disobedience, social hermeneutics, a commitment to the emancipatory goals of knowledge together with a commitment to humanity as the foundation for action. The discussion concludes with the importance of approaching public relations phenomenologically through the prism of the individual's experience of professional life in the liquid organization.div_BaMpub4945pu
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
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