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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
Dever de Fundamentação no Modelo Decisório Seriatim: Sobre Acordos Parcialmente Teorizados e Desacordos quase Completamente não Teorizados
Get PDFThis article focuses on due performance of the obligation do state reasons, which is prescribed in Brazilian Constitution (CR/88), rule 93, IX. It investigates whether it is problematic to adopt incompletely theorized agreements as decision-making foundations in the specific case of the judicial review hold by Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF). To answer this question and to investigate its consequences, it is adopted as a theoretical reference the institute of isomenia, which, in neo-institutionalist theory of process, promotes the exercise of symmetric interpretation parity (equal right to interpretate) between adressers and addressees of the decision, in a way that demands from those a clear exposition of the theoretical assumptions that direct the outcome of the trial. Considered the need for contextualization of this problem within the capabilities and limitations owned by an specific institution, the article draws a distinction between the STFs and US Supreme Courts operational mode, especially regarding to the decision-making model and the way judges submits their understanding to the court. It adverts against the risk that the seriatim decision- making model, if associated with a tendency of extensive dispersed votes writing, may result in the resolution of relevant issues not just through incompletely theorized agreements, which do not implement the theoretical depth required by isomenia, but also through almost completely non theorized disagreements, given the difficulty of identifying the theoretical premise that grounds the decision. Finally, the article points to possible positive dynamic effects resulting from the theoretical depth of the votes cast in seriatim decision-making model.O presente artigo tem por tema o adequado desempenho do dever de fundamentação inscrito na CR/88, art. 93, IX. Indaga-se se é problemática a adoção de acordos parcialmente teorizados como fundamentos decisórios no caso específico do controle concentrado de constitucionalidade a cargo do Supremo Tribunal Federal. Para responder a essa indagação e investigar seus desdobramentos, é adotado como referencial teórico o instituto da isomenia, que, na teoria neoinstitucionalista do processo, promove o exercício de uma simétrica paridade interpretativa (direito igual de interpretação) entre destinadores e destinatários da decisão, de modo a exigir daqueles a exposição clara das premissas teóricas que encaminham o resultado do julgamento. Considerada a exigência de contextualização desse problema no âmbito das capacidades e limitações próprias a cada instituição, são suscitadas distinções entre o modo de atuação do STF e da Suprema Corte norte-americana, especialmente no que concerne ao modelo decisório e ao modo de apresentação dos entendimentos dos juízes. Adverte-se para o risco de que o modelo decisório seriatim, se associado a uma tendência de redação extensa e dispersa dos votos, acarrete a resolução de questões relevantes por meio não apenas de acordos parcialmente teorizados, os quais não implementam o adensamento teórico exigido pela isomenia, mas também de desacordos quase completamente não teorizados, dada a dificuldade de se identificar a premissa teórica fundamentadora da decisão. Ao final, apontam-se possíveis efeitos dinâmicos positivos resultantes do adensamento teórico dos votos proferidos no modelo decisório seriatim
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
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