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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
Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Explorers: Nineteenth Century Expeditions in Africa and the American West\u3c/i\u3e By Richard A. Van Orman
Get PDFRecently the history of exploration and discovery has become fashionable-possibly as a relief from the dreary body count social histories that have been inflicted upon us for the past decade. The Explorers by Richard A. VanOrman is an attempt to capitalize on the new fashion for exploration history. In this work the author attempts to analyze and compare, as his subtitle indicates, Nineteenth Century Expeditions in Africa and the American West.
This is an artificial topic since there is no overarching logical reason for comparing the two enterprises-at least none that the author addresses. Moreover, the author\u27s approach to the subject is neither chronological history nor organized logical analysis. One finds, for example, in what purports to be an analysis or description of the exploration of the two continents during the Enlightenment, a treatise on Captain Cook, who had little to do with either Africa or the American West, unless one includes the Alaskan coast. The same confusion and superficial grasp of the subject reigns in each of the topical chapters that compose this book. For example, in a chapter devoted presumably to explorers\u27 backgrounds, the author repeatedly refers to a sample of thirty explorers of the American West, then never tells us who these explorers were. That is, were they mountain men, topographical engineers, artists, highly specialized scientists, men, or women? At the same time the author attempts to generalize about the explorers\u27 backgrounds, training, and experiences. This could have been done in a chart, but the subject clearly escaped the author.
Other aspects of the topic have also provided confusion. The author asserts that after Cook\u27s voyages, the world\u27s oceans were completely explored, that Robert Rogers created the concept of the noble Indian, and that eighteenth-century explorers embraced cultural relativism; he also sees uniformitarianism not as a geological concept but as a social concept. There is little point, however, in listing the numerous gaffes in this extremely superficial work. Perhaps its two most important faults are the artificiality of its subject and the author\u27s complete lack of a thesis that would provide an overall organization for the book. Rather, this work is a compilation of random comments on exploration, thrown together in jumbled fashion
Review of \u3ci\u3eFrederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind\u3c/i\u3e By Ben Merchant Vorpahl
Get PDFThis book, by the editor of the Frederic Remington-Owen Wister letters, is a strangely disappointing work on a promising subject. It is not the usual picture book of Remington paintings, nor is it really a biography. Rather it is an attempt to recreate Remington\u27s intellectual, emotional, and artistic perceptions as they changed through his life. This is a laudable attempt. Unfortunately, the author is most often cryptic, confused, and much given to the jargon of abstraction. As a consequence any reader must bring a good deal of information to the book or it will be virtually meaningless. Possibly a good editor could have made the prose more readable and aided the author in bringing out his points more clearly.
If one digs hard enough one can find some intriguing material in this book. Forpahl is perhaps the first person to look very hard at Remington paintings in an analytical way. He does note Remington\u27s preoccupation with violence and quite rightly sees a linkage with some of the themes of the novelist Frank Norris. He also sees Remington emerging from a conventional illustrator to a man who becomes increasingly aware of the paradoxes of his time. In one memorable scene he juxtaposes the New York Horse Show, Remington\u27s exhibit that accompanies it, and Theodore Roosevelt\u27s observations. But then he reverts to comments on The Bronco Buster as a symbol of Remington\u27s own confusion and that of the paradoxes inherent in American society. The connection between the horse show, the exhibit, Theodore Roosevelt, and The Bronco Buster is never made really explicit. One feels there is something there but that it is not on the author\u27s page. This is characteristic of virtually every chapter in the book. One never quite grasps the significance of Remington\u27s appearance at Wounded Knee just after the battle, though the author suggests it had great significance. On another occasion the author alludes to Remington\u27s adoption of the idea of vortex in his later paintings, but then he drops this subject just as it becomes interesting. Examples such as this could be multiplied many times. This is most unfortunate, because the author has a main point that is clearly valid and that is that Remington was by no means a literal recorder of the western scene. He did indeed see things through the eye of the mind. Art historians have become accustomed to reading that statement about painters like Moran and Bierstadt, but rarely have they thought of Remington in this way. They should, and perhaps this is the best reason for reading Vorpahl\u27s book
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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