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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
Nos caminhos do Santo Monge : religião, sociabilidade e lutas sociais no sul do Brasil
Get PDFEsta tese trata da formação religiosa dos grupos populares no Sul do Brasil, em especial dos caboclos. Essa religiosidade está baseada em uma crença popular específica, que trata dos poderes de um andarilho que fez sua fama no século XIX entre os Estados de São Paulo e do Rio Grande do Sul. Outros andarilhos surgiram neste espaço até os anos 30 do século XX, e as narrativas de cada um deles fundiram-se em torno de um personagem, hoje cultuado como um santo, conhecido como Santo Monge ou São João Maria. Ao estudar a crença, demonstrase como a religião, neste caso, articulou-se às concepções de natureza e cultura desses grupos para configurar, nos termos de Elias, recursos e estratégias em torno do processo de modernização. Reconstruindo os personagens reconhecidos entre as populações que vivem no sul do Brasil como monges, em especial àqueles evocados como o Santo Monge ou São João Maria, a tese apresenta a formação religiosa de uma tradição que fora dos cânones institucionais do Catolicismo, forjou-se como uma religião.Demonstra que a partir dela os seus membros estabelecem relações que resultam na permanência dos valores que estruturam a sua sociabilidade. Demonstra também que nas relações em que se constata o fim da devoção, finda um formato específico de reprodução social e de identidade dos grupos. Dessa forma, defende-se aqui que esta religião, além das especificidades que a caracteriza, ocupa centralidade nas estratégias de sociabilidade no contexto de seus devotosThis thesis is about religion formation amoung popular groups in southern Brazilian, specially caboclos. This religiosity is based on a specific popular belief that treats the powers of a stroller who became famous in the 19th century in the states of São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul. Others strollers appeared in that time until the 1930s of the 20th century and the narratives of each one of them were related to a character, today known as a saint, Saint Monge (monk) or Saint João Maria. Studying the belief, it is possible to show how religion connected to the concepts of nature and culture of these groups to configurate, according to the terms of Elias, resources and strategies around a process of modernization. Rebuilding the known characters, specially those related to Saint Monge or São João Maria, the thesis presents the religious formation of a tradition that out of the institutional canons of catholicism, was forged as a religion. It is shown that because of it the members stablished relationships that results in the permanence of the values that are the structures of their sociability. It is also shown that in the relationship that is possible to notice the end of devotion, it ends a specific form of social reproduction and identity of groups. So, it is defended that this religion, besides the specificities, has a central role in the strategies of sociability in the context of its devotees
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
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