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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Are environmental practices luxury goods? Towards a framework for social class and environmental practices in everyday life
No full textAbstract: Biking, sorting waste, eco-labels, saving energy, and so on: there are many ways in which we are expected to care for the environment. In society and academia alike, we often assume that such environmental practices are most common in middle and upper classes. Environmental practices are generally treated as luxury goods that depend on access to resources (such as money or knowledge). Allegedly, these resources are needed to be able to care for the environment or to align this care with behavior. Yet, evidence shows that one\u2019s ecological footprint consistently increases with income or wealth. This dissertation aims to disentangle the relationship between social class and environmental practices. Results contradict the positive association between social class and environmental practices. Depending on the practice under scrutiny, environmental practices can be positively (e.g., purchasing eco-labels), negatively (e.g., saving energy), or not (e.g., sorting waste) related to social class. At the same time, a cultural representation exists of environmental practices as a particularly middle-class phenomenon. Moreover, the legitimate views and practices of less privileged groups are often discounted. This representation depends on framing environmental practices as value-driven and high-cost practices, such as environmentally friendly purchases or solar panels. In sum, even though I challenge the idea of environmental practices as luxury goods, this cultural representation can be utilized to maintain social class boundaries
Over gele hesjes en klimaatactivisten : een zoektocht naar gedeeld belang in eco-sociaal beleid
No full textAbstract: Boekbespreking van Waarom gele hesjes niet met een bakfiets rijden
Zijn milieuvriendelijke gewoonten luxe goederen?
No full textAbstract: Is milieubewust gedrag een luxe goed? Dat is de vraag die milieusocioloog Robbe Geerts, onderzoeker aan de Universiteit van Antwerpen en gastonderzoeker bij het team Resillience Management and Governance van KWR de afgelopen vier jaar heeft beziggehouden. Hij verdedigde zijn proefschrift met succes op 24 juni 2024
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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