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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
Patterns of consciousness formation among women belonging to the Dari-speaking Afghan diasporas of Austria and Pakistan
No full textDie vorliegende Studie setzt sich mit Formen von Bewusstseinsbildung bei Frauen auseinander, welche zur Dari-sprechenden afghanischen Diaspora in Österreich und Pakistan gehören. Der wesentlichste Aspekt ihres Bewusstseins ist die kollektivistische Organisation ihrer Herkunftsgesellschaften. Zudem identifizieren sich Frauen aus Afghanistan stark mit traditionellen Gender-Rollen, die die Frau in der privaten Sphäre einer Gesellschaft verorten und ihr diverse Pflegearbeit zuschreiben. Diese Tradition wird in erster Linie durch eine patrilokale Machtstruktur aufrechterhalten, die Frauen teilweise zu Objekten degradiert anstatt sie als selbstständig Handelnde anzuerkennen. In dieser Hinsicht bergen afghanische Diaspora-Gesellschaften großartige Chancen, da sie Frauen ermöglichen, als Subjekte ihrer eigenen Geschichte in Erscheinung zu treten. Dieser Prozess steht in direktem Zusammenhang mit der Förderung von Frauen-Bildung, da die Analphabetinnen-Rate sehr hoch ist, wie vorhergehende Studien ebenso gezeigt haben wie diese.
Dieses Forschungsprojekt basiert auf einem mixed methods approach, um sowohl mit der quantitativen Methode die gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen an Frauen zu erfassen, als auch die individuellen Möglichkeiten der Subversion des hegemonialen Systems mithilfe der qualitativen Methode zu begreifen. Die Autorin lebt in Österreich und hat einen einwöchigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Pakistan absolviert. Die quantitativen Daten wurden mit Fragebögen in den Sprachen Dari, Deutsch und Englisch erhoben. Die qualitative Erhebung erfolgte mithilfe von semi-strukturierten Interviews mit sechs afghanischen Frauen in den Sprachen Englisch und Deutsch sowie mit zwei pakistanischen Expertinnen.The present study deals with patterns of consciousness formation that distinguish women who belong to the Dari-speaking Afghan diasporas of Austria and Pakistan. The most remarkable aspect of their consciousness appeared to be the collectivistic organization of their societies of origin. Furthermore, women from Afghanistan do identify the most with traditional gender roles that locate women into the private sphere and ascribe care work to their main tasks. This tradition is, first and foremost, maintained by a patrilocal power structure that, partially, degrades women to objects rather than self-reliant agents. The diaspora societies bear great chances in this regard, as they enable Afghan women to present themselves as subjects of their own history. This process is strongly related to the promotion of education of women, as – how this and former studies have shown - illiteracy among Afghan women is currently on a very high level.
This research project is based on a mixed methods approach in order to encompass either the societal expectations towards Afghan women with a quantitative inquiry and to grasp the individual opportunities of subversion of the hegemonic system with a qualitative inquiry as well. The author is based in Austria and made a one-week research stay in Pakistan for study purposes. The quantitative inquiry made use of questionnaires in the languages Dari, English and German. The qualitative inquiry is based on semi-structured interviews with six Afghan women in English and German and with two female Pakistani experts
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
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
The Politics of Fear: Reflections on the Relationship of Inner and Outer Freedom in Pakistan
No full textThis article sheds light on the relationship between inner and outer freedom in a rather repressive social system. In the search for individual agency, it contrasts theories of European liberalism - as impressively described by Michel Foucault - with the collective organisation of South Asian societies. With the aforementioned as well as Hannah Arendt and bell hooks, the question of the meaning and purpose of political action is raised. The subject as the origin and goal of political action is located differently in the opposing social systems described here. Nevertheless, the retreat of the political subject into the private sphere opens up the possibility of subverting the public relations of subordination and oppression, as Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau impressively demonstrated in Hegemony and socialist strategy: towards a radical democratic politics
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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