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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
Yangren (Westerners) in Yangchang (Concession) Foreigners in Eileen Chang's novels
Get PDFShanghai has played a central role in the development of Chinese Modern literature. China's defeat in the Opium War ushered in the creation of Metropolitan Shanghai. From its birth as a modern city, foreigners (Westerners) have been integral part of Shanghai. The "Shanghai-School Fiction" 海派小説 is characterized by its foreign flavor. The depiction of streets in Shanghai emphasizes imported (mostly Western) materials, revealing an exoticism effectively. Later, during the 1920's and 30's, when the foreign concessions in Shanghai were at their height, characters in novels from different countries served to shape certain stereotypes peculiar to foreigners: British and Americans enjoy a luxurious life; Russian prostitutes tout their customers along streets; Indian people always work as gatekeepers and so on. Most of these fictional characters just served to show "exoticism" in Shanghai; they never showed any individual or independent characteristics. Eileen Chang's novels acquired great popularity in Shanghai during the 40's when it was occupied by Japan. In her novels written during a short period before the time of the CCP's victory, she describes a number of foreigners living either in Shanghai or in Hong Kong. The British, who in novels, were depicted as rich men without any serious anxiety, are now intimidated by their own resentment that they live in a colony, not in Britain, while a Russian woman, who makes ends meet by working as a typist, is afraid of finding a spouse in foreign circumstances. A number of mixed-race people also appear in Chang's novels. All these characters feel anxiety and apprehensions that they are and always will be the "other" within the concession community, however they can go nowhere by leaving Shanghai (or Hong Kong). Chang, in her novels, provides Westerners, who were depicted as the thorough "powerful" or "evil", with the particular characteristic as the "other". They oscillate between inferiority complex regarding their own fellow countrymen living in their homeland and a superiority complex over Chinese, identifying themselves with neither one. Such characteristics correspond with those of Shanghai people to whom Chang herself also belonged. She produced stories of Shanghai people who were unable to identify with either the dominating West or the dominated hinterland China. Her writings bloomed in a linguistic vacuum, created by Japan's control over the literary publications in Shanghai
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
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