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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
Montale’s metaphysics
Get PDFThe paper was read at a conference of the Forum for European Philosophy and the Centre for Literature and Philosophy at the University of Sussex on Saturday 9 February 2008. The subject of the conference was ‘Philosophical Poets’.Eugenio Montale was born in Genoa in 1896 and died in Milan in 1981. He was one of the six twentieth century Italians to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1975), being preceded by Giosuè Carducci (1906), Grazia Deledda (1926), Luigi Pirandello (1934) and Salvatore Quasimodo (1959), and followed by Dario Fo in 1997.peer-reviewe
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
Natura umana, persona, libertà: Prospettive di antropologia filosofica ed orientamenti etico-politici
No full textObserve a mother trying to teach her child the first words in her language. She doesn’t just make noises with her tongue, lips and vocal chords; she utters words, sometimes (though definitely not always) pointing at objects as she does that, hoping that the child will not only hear but also understand. In so doing, she is treating the child as a person, at least potentially. Becoming a person means entering into a community of speakers and listeners who use language as their specific mode of communication. By talking to people and trying to make myself understood, but also by listening to what they have to say, I treat them as persons. Observing their reactions, verbal or non-verbal, I can know more or less whether the message I am trying to convey has been successfully received. If I have doubts, I may ask for clarification. The other person may do the same, but our first aim must be to understand each other. There are many other things we might want to do, and hopefully achieve, on the basis of that.peer-reviewe
Il-pont
Get PDFDin il-poeżija bl-isem `Il-pont’ ta’ Joe Friggieri dehret fil-ġurnal Il-Malti : Rivista tal-Akkademja tal-Malti ħarġa letterarja, 93.peer-reviewe
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
Lessons from Aquinas in Amoris Laetitia
Get PDFIt may have escaped the notice of some readers of Pope Francis’ Exhortation
Amoris Laetitia that the first quoted reference in Chapter One, after Genesis,
Revelation and Matthew, is to Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), the Argentinian
short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, considered by critics as arguably
“the most important figure in Spanish- language literature since Cervantes.”2
Francis calls him “the poet” and quotes from “Calle Desconocida,” “The
Unknown Path,” a poem from Borges’ first collection of poetry, Fervor de Buenos
Aires, published in 1923.peer-reviewe
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