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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Challenging the collective imaginary of migration
Full text linkClose your eyes for a moment and focus on the image that emerges when you hear the word ‘refugee’. My thesis deals with the collective imaginary attached to contemporary migrations. It aims to explore its foundations in Western visual culture and its impact on migratory policies. The notion of visual culture is considered broadly, to include media photographs, art, and fashion productions, as well as data visualisations ranging from infographics to cartographies. At the core of these images, the semiotic element of the motif is understood as being key in the genealogy of images that explains the success of the narrow range of mainstream photographs encapsulating the refugees. Emanating from Google Images, these images are arranged into typologies. The narrow range of motifs that can be found in these mainstream images is analysed in the light of the resemblance relationship between images and migrants suggested by art historian W.J.T Mitchell. The resonance of these images with the Western economic system and historical background leads to a consideration of the distribution of roles in European societies as a reflection on the distribution of roles in European films. From there, the film industry will serve as a cognitive framework for thinking about border regimes. The focus of this doctoral research is the 2015 so-called ‘crisis’ in the Mediterranean, but its conclusion encompasses more recent events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, whose repercussions impact contemporary depictions of refugees.
The present dissertation is part of a Critical PhD by Practice in Film Studies but also relies on refugee studies, visual studies, and art history. The People Behind the Scenes, a 77-minute film, is an integral part of this research. Both components of this research can be read and watched separately, but they must be considered jointly to appreciate the study to its full extent. This research is conceived as a practice, involving the creative visual productions of myself, as author, and as a constant self-reflection of my personal conditioning, as a white Western woman bearing a family history of migration linked to the French colonial past.
Keywords
Migration – Images – Collective Imaginary – Mediterranean – Critical PhD by Practice – Medi
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Counteracting dominant discourses about migration with images: A typology attempt
Full text linkThis article examines a series of art and media images which contributed to counteracting dominant discourses about migrations. Through recourse to recent research in political science and psychology, it suggests that both the genre of the images and the very nature of their message, contribute shaping opinions and public policies. Specifically, it emphasises how the recurrence of certain motifs helps diffusing a feeling of anxiety about the migration 'crisis'. On this, this article updates the Funnel of Causality, a theoretical tool elaborated by political scientists to analyse votes behaviour that is now used to understand opinions to migrations (Dennison, 2017). In this scheme, the media effect, among which images play an increasing part, is heard to be of minor importance, whereas moral values appear to be crucial. The present article shows that these very values are fostered by emotions (Tappolet, 2000) which images, in particular images of fiction, are conveying
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