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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
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
J.-F. Kervégan, La raison des normes. Essai sur Kant
No full textIl testo di Jean-François Kervégan si presenta come un interessante studio della filosofia pratica kantiana in cui l’autore si propone di mostrare come questa, a dispetto della sua interna evoluzione e, dunque, anche degli importanti cambiamenti intervenuti dalla trattazione di un’opera all’altra, si configuri come una teoria unitaria e coerente della razionalità normativa
The New Social Media and the Glory: For a Theological-Political Criticism of the Functioning of Contemporary Liberal Democracies
No full textThe modern liberal democratic societies have represented themselves as the result of a necessary process of emancipation from the dimension of the sacred. This paper aims to problematize this “self-narrative”, by showing how these societies continue to be based on sacral systems which are indispensable to the functioning of the politic power. As Giorgio Agamben’s analyses about the genealogy of the “governmental power” have shown, the sacral assurance devices still persist when there is no more a theological-political system of legitimation of the sovereign. The ceremonial and liturgical elements prove to be fundamental precisely in modern democracies, where the sphere of the public opinion – as expression of the popular sovereignty – finds its significance only as source of acclamation and “glorification” of a politics which is actually anarchic. In this context, the development of “social medias”, like Facebook and Twitter, allows to reconsider Agamben’s research. The opportunity, offered by the net, to comment or to “like” every type of information contents,
especially about politics, has created the illusion of a renewed possibility to be directly involved in decision-making processes: but this turns out to be only a system of acclamation and ceremonial assurance, that reaffirms the sacral inviolability of the governmental sphere. By crossing Agamben’s considerations with Guy Debord’s ones, then, it is possible to offer a new and unsettling interpretation of the modern “society of the spectacle”, whose mechanisms are not weakened but consolidated by the development of interactive systems: in this way, politics and “spectacle” end up by coinciding
Il concetto di "politico" di Étienne Balibar nel confronto con Schmitt e Derrida. Sovranità, eccezione, democrazia
No full textThis article aims to investigate and question Étienne Balibar’s criticism of the liberal democratic configuration, by focusing on his reference to Carl Schmitt’s analyses and interpretative categories. Such a confrontation, however, by expressing an antithetical perspective with respect to that of the German jurist, will inevitably lead to a comparison of Balibar’s position also with Derrida’s one, who, like him, addressed the democratic issue by rediscovering and deconstructing Schmitt’s thought
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