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AHC interview with Bruno Goldstein
No full textJanuary 31, 2012Bruno Goldstein was born on March 13th, 1935 in Vienna. He and his family left Austria in 1939 for Belgium, where they lived in hiding until the end of WW II. In 1949 the family immigrated to the USA. In 1957 Bruno Goldstein graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Kurt Goldberger
No full textMarch 6, 2012Digital recordingKurt Goldberger was born on August 5, 1925 in Vienna. He went to elementary school and then on to Gymnasium Stubenbastei (high school) until he had to leave school after “Anschluss”. On July 4, 1939, Kurt Goldberger left Austria on a Kindertransport for England, where he went to school in Croydon and learnt English. His mother was classified as enemy alien and was imprisoned. At the same time his father, who was still in Vienna, managed to get an affidavit for the USA and organized the immigration of his wife, his daughter and his son Kurt. They all went to the US in March 1944. Kurt Goldberger worked for MGM and later for a trade company that imported goods from Austria to the US
AHC interview with Lisl Hirsh
No full textMarch 1, 2012Lisl Hirsh, née Zuckerbacker was born May 1, 1925 in Vienna. Her father had a store for leather goods on Mariahilferstrasse and the family lived a typical Viennese middle-class life. At the age of 13, shortly after "Kristallnacht", Lisl left Austria for Holland. Lisl was separated from her family and imprisoned at a refugee camp until the Germans marched in and she was brought to the Westerbork camp in 1943. When the camp was liberated in 1945 she joined the Canadian army as a nurse. In April 1946 the family immigrated to the US, where Lisl Hirsh worked as a nurse until she retired in 1992.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
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
AHC interview with George Walter Steininger
No full textSeptember 19, 2011Georg Walter Steininger was born in Vienna on Jan. 5, 1932 to Susan Walter and Rudolf Steininger. He and his parents fled to France, where they stayed a year before moving on to Spain and then finally getting on a ship to the U.S from Portugal. They arrived in New York City in 1940, where he and his mother were sheltered by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).Digital recordin
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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