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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
Post-Colonial Analysis of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
No full textJoseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness tells the journey of Marlow through the African jungle and his search for the European Kurtz who exploits the natives by imposing violence on them. It is mainly based upon Conrad's own experience in Congo when he learned how Europeans exploited and traded the natives for their own benefits during his own journey. The book is regarded as an attack on imperialism and criticizes immoral treatments of the European colonizers in Africa in the 19 th century. Keith Booker states that the book deals with issues such as imperialism, capitalism, race, and gender that were very much at the forefront of the turn-of-the century European mind. Conrad's ambivalent treatment of these issues is extremely representative of the way they were treated in any number of European discourses of the time (217). Besides, Chinua Achebe in his An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness comments that Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as 'the other world', the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization, a place where man's vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality (338). Although Achebe puts forward that the novel displays colonialism, I consider that Conrad does not intend to write it to appreciate colonialism and therefore the purpose of this paper is to approach Conrad's Heart of Darkness from post-colonial perspective by taking European imperialism and colonialism over Africa into consideration in order to clarify how Conrad has deconstructed binary oppositions of colonialism by subverting the general idea of the Europeans towards Africa in the 19th century
The Image of Veil in Leila Ahmed's Women and Gender in Islam
No full textMost of the time suppressed and disempowered throughout man's history, the gender of woman has undergone a dissipating process where such an overpowering oscillation between two genders occurs. In spite of the fact that this bias creates a generalization, the position of the 'womanhood' wasn't always under subjugation. As a matter of fact, this essay intends to throw light upon women's 'past, present and future' by relying on mainly Leila Ahmed's flagship works into by drawing a map showing how the veil plays a critical role in the representation of women
A Comparative Analysis of Materialism as a False Ideal in Guy de Maupassant's The Necklace and O.Henry's The Gift of the Magi
No full textMateryalizm üzerine yapılan bu mukayeseli çalışma, sırasıyla Guy de Maupassant'ın The Necklace ve O. Henry'nin The Gift of the Magi eserlerini ele almaktadır. Edebi bir terim olarak materyalizm, ekonomi ve toplumdaki bazı köklü değişikliklerin insanları nasıl etkilediğini göstermektedir. Seçilen bu kısa öykülerde karakterlerin arzularının büyük ölçüde içinde yaşadıkları toplumsal koşullar tarafından yönlendirildiğine dikkat çekilmektedir. The Necklace adlı birinci hikayedeki Mathilde alt sınıf bir aileden gelmektedir ve daha yüksek bir mevkiye ulaşma hırsı onu samimi ilişkilerden ziyade maddi eşyalara daha fazla önem vermeye sevk etmektedir. Benzer şekilde, ikinci hikâye olan The Gift of the Magi'deki Jim ve Della yoksul karakterlerdir ve içgüdüsel olarak birbirlerine hediye almak için değerli eşyalarını feda etmek zorunda hissetmektedirler. Yani bu hikayeler, daha mutlu bir dünya için empati ve şefkatin önemine işaret ederek, kapitalist sistemi ve onun maddi mülkiyet üzerindeki etkisini sert bir şekilde eleştirmektedir. Bu bakımdan makalenin amacı, seçilen kısa öykülerde maddi refahtan ziyade sevgi ve özverinin daha derin değerini açığa çıkararak, materyalizmin nasıl bireysel fedakarlığa ve derin bir ironiye yol açan yanlış bir ideal olarak temsil edildiğini göstermektir.This comparative study on materialism deals with The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant and The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry respectively. As a literary term, materialism focuses on how some changes in the economy and society affect people. In these stories, it is pointed out that the desires of the characters are highly directed by the communal conditions in which they live. Mathilde in The Necklace comes from a lower-class family and her ambitions to get a higher position led her to give more importance to material belongings rather than sincere relations. Similarly, Jim and Della in The Gift of the Magi suffer from poverty, and they instinctively feel obliged to sacrifice their precious belongings to purchase presents for each other. In other words, these stories harshly criticize the capitalist system and its effect on material possessions by signifying the importance of empathy and compassion for a happier world. In this respect, the purpose of this article is to show how materialism is represented as a false ideal that leads to individual sacrifice and profound irony by uncovering the deeper value of love and selflessness over material prosperity in the selected short stories
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