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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
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Narrative Capture and Status Aspirations: How Right-Wing Populists Consolidate Power in Unequal Democracies
No full textOnce in power, how are right-wing populists from elite parties able to attract additional votes from unlikely constituencies such as the poor and minorities? And what do the strategic moves made by populist incumbents to challenge institutions in the process tell us about populism’s challenge to liberal and electoral democracy in unequal societies?My book project investigates strategies of right-wing populists in power by comparing Narendra Modi (2014-present), Donald Trump (2017-2020) and Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023) in India, United States and Brazil respectively. These large, multi-ethnic, unequal and stratified democracies of a combined two billion people have seen the emergence of culturally nativist, economically right of center “Pluto-populism” in power - headed by populist leaders who clashed with established democratic institutions and norms, while enjoying increasing electoral support from the poor and minorities. This support is surprising as their elite parties’ historic core constituencies and policies are geared towards socially and economically privileged groups. I compare rhetorical and institutional strategies for the three leaders at their re-election campaigns, sketching out how different paths for how economically right of center and culturally nativist right-wing populists establish democratic legitimacy in stratified societies.I propose that Pluto-populists rely on two strategies to attract electoral support a) “Disadvantage Blind” nationalism to attract aspirational minorities and b) “Narrative Capture” to more effectively convey perceptions of performance to undecided voters. While the former pushes back against liberal democracy, the second strategy, if successful in capturing institutions, leads down the slippery path to democratic backsliding. A combination of aspirational status appeals, “us versus them” politics and successful Narrative Capture helps consolidate electoral power and democratic legitimacy.Using an extensive mixed methods research strategy combining rich fieldwork and hundreds of qualitative interviews with voters over the three countries between 2022 -2024, quantitative analysis of electoral data and campaign communication, I argue that low-status minorities meet status aspirations and derive an resurgent social identity from the perception that national status is rising in the world. Right-wing populists take credit for this perceived enhanced national status and meet minority aspirations with a “Disadvantage blind Nationalism” that denies stigmatized group disadvantage, and instead endorses nationalistic meritocracy for aspirational minorities, who expect to move up the economic ladder. While Status threat appeals have been credited for the electoral success of right-wing populism, my research illuminates an additional status-based mechanism of credit-claiming on behalf of poor minorities at the bottom of social hierarchies, who have never had any status to lose.By comparing the capture of media and information institutions - an early indicator of democratic decline - in the three case, this project contributes to literature on when and how populist chief executives cause democratic decline after they assume office and conditions in which electoral democracy survives. I define Narrative Capture as a set of strategies to convey positive perceptions of performance to undecided voters by capturing or discrediting institutions. Where populists were able to achieve institutional Narrative Capture (such as in India), a pliant media and institutional landscape aids the incumbent in disseminating favorable narratives of performance and persuading undecided voters. I specify institutional constraints and conditions for such capture, pointing out paths that lead to substantial democratic backsliding versus those that do not. In polarized countries such as Brazil and United States (2016-2020) where such attempted institutional Narrative capture was largely unsuccessful, populists criticize unallied media to discredit critical reports of performance and de-legitimize unallied institutions - attempting to attract votes with an “us versus them” politics, which has its own pitfalls for democracy. I discuss implications and sketch out differing trajectories.By combining “what populists in power say” with “what populists in power do” this project helps develop a comprehensive understanding of economically liberal but socially conservative right-wing populist power consolidation in the world’s three largest and unequal democracies
A finite analogue of fine's function F(a,b;t)
No full textWe initiate a systematic development of FN(a,b;t), a finite analogue of Fine?s function F(a,b;t). Our results are transformations between FN(a,b;t) and FN(aq?,bqm;tqn), where?, mandntake the values 0 or 1
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