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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    Titolo del progetto nazionale: Punto di vista e parole-chiave nel discorso persuasivo Titolo specifico del programma svolto dall'Unità di Modena: Punto di vista e parole chiave nel discorso accademico: prospettive cross-linguistiche, cross-generiche e cross-disciplinari

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    Il programma di ricerca si pone una pluralità di obiettivi, non solo a livello di ricerca teorico-descrittiva (con particolare riferimento alla lingua inglese) e di riflessione metodologica (sulla ricerca linguistica applicata), ma anche di produzione di strumenti per l'analisi e la didattica linguistica. Obiettivi teorico-descrittivi-metodologici 1) Il programma si propone di indagare in primo luogo la nozione di "parole chiave" da diversi punti di vista, teorici e applicati, offrendo una rassegna degli approcci al tema. 1.a. Si propone in particolare di proporre strumenti di identificazione delle parole chiave a livello di testo e di discorso, secondo procedure che si basano su di una combinatoria di criteri esterni e interni e su di una utilizzazione dei dati statistici di frequenza che non tenga solo conto dei dati relativi ai singoli elementi linguistici, ma piuttosto della rete di relazioni collocazionali e lessico-semantiche che si stabiliscono fra i singoli elementi. 1.b. Si propone inoltre di indagare la relazione fra la definizione di parole chiave e contesto d'uso. 2) Altro obiettivo fondamentale del programma è quello di indagare il rapporto tra parole chiave ed espressione di un punto di vista del parlante nel testo e nel discorso specialistico. In questo senso la nozione viene indagata in particolare nelle sue relazioni con l'espressione di una valutazione e dunque con il sistema(/i sistemi) di valori di cui la specifica comunità di discorso si fa portatrice. 2.a. Si propone in primo luogo di studiare il modo in cui i diversi gradi di esplicitezza/implicitezza delle diverse forme della valutazione coinvolgono la definizione delle parole chiave e si inseriscono in una rete di relazioni collocazionali e lessico-semantiche. 2.b. Si propone infine di indagare alcuni ambiti di discorso specifici, enucleandone divergenze e convergenze. In particolare interessa esplorare i modi in cui parole chiave e punto di vista del discorso contribuiscono alle forme della persuasione presenti in diversi casi di discorso specialistico quali: i) il discorso accademico visto in una varietà di contesti disciplinari, ii) ambiti di discorso specialistico caratterizzati da grande varietà di situazioni comunicative come quello economico ed artistico (nelle forme accademiche, giornalistiche, professionali ecc.), iii) forme del discorso professionale come quelli della corrispondenza e delle presentazioni aziendali. 3) A livello più ampiamente metodologico, il programma si propone di: a. approfondire strumenti di studio del fenomeno della collocazione, guardando in particolare alle reti di connessione fra collocazioni e patterns collocazionali, nonché al ruolo che il punto di vista del parlante (o della comunità di discorso) può assumere nella definizione di meccanismi quali quello normalmente identificato come prosodia semantica; b. approfondire una definizione delle possibilità/necessità di integrazione di metodologie di analisi della linguistica dei corpora e dell'analisi del discorso. Produzione di strumenti per l'analisi e la didattica linguistica Il programma si propone inoltre di produrre: a. un software per l'identificazione delle parole chiave improntato al modello di "aboutness" di Philips (1983), basato sull'analisi di associazioni fra lemmi collegati da patterns di intercollocazione dei collocati; b. una serie di materiali per l'autoapprendimento rivolti tanto alla utilizzazione delle parole chiave per lo sviluppo di abilità comunicative in relazione a specifici ambiti e generi di discorso, quanto alla riflessione su strumenti di indagine lessico-semantica in prospettiva di auto-formazione e verifica di ipotesi descrittive o traduttive

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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