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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Australian community languages teachers: a phenomenological study
No full textABSTRACT Australian community language teachers: a phenomenological study In 2013, the Community Languages of Victoria (CLAV) website stated that more than 36,000 children, every Saturday, join a community language school class in one of 182 locations over Victoria, conducted by one of the 1,312 language teachers in one of 42 different languages. A parallel situation occurs in all other Australian states and territories. Yet, despite decades of research into the educational, cognitive, linguistic and cultural benefits of multilingualism (Cummins, 1984; Clyne, 2003; Bialystock, 2007), the teaching of community languages in Australia and specifically the experiences of teachers in these schools continues to be poorly researched. On reviewing the literature and research for community languages in Australia, there was little information on community language teachers in their own voices or about their own experiences. This study has two purposes. The first is to explore community language teachers’ stories as a starting point for understanding the complex nature of community languages teaching in Victoria, Australia today. The second purpose is to investigate a perceived growing concern that for some languages, the term ‘community’ may no longer be applicable, as learners access these schools with little knowledge of their ‘community’ language. This in turn has heralded the need to re-conceptualise the teaching and support for these schools. The challenge now lies in the complex nature of how these schools have navigated and continue to navigate generational shift and the changing parental and learner needs they currently represent. Research in this study uses the lens of teacher perspectives. I chose to research and document the ‘voices’ of teachers working in six different schools representing three of the largest languages of current Victorian community language programs. It is hoped that results from the data collected in these older and more established community school programs may be used to assist teachers of newer languages in their quest to maintain and sustain their community language and culture in the future. Research from the six selected schools falls within what Shulman (1986) termed “classroom ecology” where teaching is presumed to be highly complex, context specific and where differences across classrooms and schools are critically important. Through telling these community language teachers’ stories what is offered are insights into the particulars of how and why something works and for whom. This research is a multiple phenomenological case study that values teachers’ experiences and sees them as a contributing factor to the development of knowledge based on practice (Shulman, 1986). Data was collected via semi-structured interviews and the personal narrative reflections of each teacher. The teachers in this study were, at the time of this research, teaching in six different schools across three languages: Chinese, Greek and Arabic. Two teachers were chosen, representing one language. Each of the two teachers differed in the number of years teaching their language. Each of the ‘older’ teachers referred to in the study had ten or more years teaching experience, whilst the ‘younger’ teachers had taught for less than five years. The method of in-depth phenomenological interviewing was chosen for this study because it allowed for an understanding of how the participants assigned meanings to their own experiences (Gubrium & Holstein, 2002; Seidman, 1998). The interviews were guided by general themes, as the rationale for this approach was that it allowed the interviewees to have greater control over the topics. Priority was given to following the participants’ lead, exploring the issues they raised, and developing follow-up questions around those topics. The phenomenological interview approach is an emic one, in which the interviewer’s basic work is to listen actively and to move the interview forward by building on what a participant has already shared (Seidman, 1998). The thesis includes the ‘insider’ voice of the researcher in a contextualised introduction to the data findings. This positions both the researcher’s interest and experience in the field. The data collected reflects information about their careers, challenges, successes and concerns about the maintenance of their community languages for future generations in Victoria. This research also documents concerns amongst teachers that many of their learners now access their schools with little knowledge of their ‘community’ language. Generational shift and language attrition in all three languages researched had given birth to a new hybrid student identity that each teacher tried to both articulate and understand. This study hopes to shape policy and debates concerning languages education and the resourcing of the current community languages programs across Victoria
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn 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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