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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
Etablering av overvåkingsprosjekt på palsmyrer
No full textHofgaard, A. 2004. Etablering av overvåkingsprosjekt på palsmyrer. - NINA Oppdragsmelding 841. 32pp.
Behovet for overvåking av sårbare økosystem har økt i takt med den forventede globale oppvarmingstrenden, og da spesielt i nordlige områder. I denne rapporten presenteres bakgrunn,
design og overvåkingsområdene til et norsk overvåkingsprogram for palsmyrer etablert i 2004. Palsmyrer forekommer i sonen med usammenhengende eller sporadisk permafrost mellom boreale og arktisk/alpine områder. De norske palsmyrene eksisterer ved den vestre og sørlige grensen av det eurasiske hovedutbredelsesområdet i øst og opptrer i områder med en kontinental klimatype. Palsmyrenes klimatisk bestemte marginale geografiske posisjoner gjør at de lett påvirkes av miljøendringer og dermed er de også følsomme indikatorer og eksempel på effekter på både abiotiske og biotiske systemer. Fem palsmyrområder som representerer ulike klimatiske regioner fra nord til sør i Norge er valgt ut. Disse er Ferdesmyra og Goatteluobbal i henholdsvis Øst-Finnmark og Vest-Finnmark, Ostojeaggi i Troms samt Haugtjørnin og Haugskardmyrin i Dovre-området i Sør-Norge. I Dovreområdet har det vært en nedgang i utbredelse og frekvens av palsmyrer i løpet av de siste ti-årene. I nord synes det å være en bedre balanse mellom tilvekst og nedbrytning. Pals- og myrmarksstrukturer (for eksempel marktypefrekvens, dominerende vegetasjon, teledybde, frekvens av torvsprekker) for ett av de fem utvalgte myrområdene analyseres per år med en etterfølgende analyse hvert femte år
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Effects of climate change on the distribution and development of palsa peatlands: background and suggestions for a national monitoring project
No full textHofgaard, A. Effects of climate change on the distribution and development of palsa peatlands: background and suggestions for a national monitoring project. NINA Project Report 21. 32pp.
Anticipated global warming trend especially at high latitudes has increased the need for, and importance of, monitoring programs designed to track the response of fragile ecosystems and edaphic and biotic structures they depend on. Palsa peatlands belong to permafrost landforms that incorporate both fragile edaphic structures and fragile biotic communities. It has been hypothesized that a further climatic warming and/or precipitation increase will result in melting of most palsas (i.e. frozen peat-covered mounds protruding above the surface of the surrounding peatland) within a few decades at the most marginal sites. These sites will then also be the most sensitive to any human activities affecting the vegetation structure, peat cover or hydrological properties of the peatlands. Under increased climatic marginalization, even benign human impact may destabilize entire edaphic and biotic structures and consequently jeopardize
the long-term survival of depending species locally and regionally. This deserves increased consideration in management or conservation plans for palsa peatlands.
The spatial and temporal distribution of palsas depends on local and regional climatic factors and on how the climate is changing at scales of decades and centuries. In Norway palsa are common features in peatlands mainly in two regions, one in the south restricted to Dovre-Femunden, and one broader northern covering Troms and Finnmark. Palsa peatlands are characterized by a mosaic of palsas, peat areas without permafrost, wet sedge areas, and ponds. The system is highly dynamic through time due to growth and decay of palsas.
The development of palsa peatlands during the later half of the 20th century has been dominated by decline. The documentation is however slightly biased as it has largely focused on the development of dominating “late successional” palsa features and a holistic picture is herewith obscured. A monitoring program need to capture the constant flux of changes caused by permafrost alternations, including different palsa structures, development of ponds and colonization of ponds along with analyses of vegetation structure and land use changes to be able to draw profound conclusions.
There is a general lack of organized or methodologically consequent projects monitoring palsa peatland dynamics in Scandinavia. Establishment of a Norwegian long-term monitoring program based on testable methods would provide high quality information for preservation and management authorities and the scientific community both nationally and internationally. Through such a program, palsa peatland dynamics would form an efficient indicator of climate change and its effects. The outline for a monitoring program including suggestions for methods and study areas is given in the present report
Overvåking av palsmyr. Førstegangsundersøkelse i Ostojeaggi, Troms, 2004
No full textHofgaard, A. 2005. Overvåking av palsmyr: førstegangsundersøkelse i Ostojeaggi, Troms, 2004. - NINA Rapport 42. 29 s. Overvåking av palsmyr er et nytt nasjonalt overvåkingsprosjekt initiert av Direktoratet for naturforvaltning, med oppstart i 2004. Prosjektet omfatter i alt fem utvalgte overvåkningsområder fra Finnmark i nord til Dovre i sør. I denne rapporten presenteres resultater fra førstegangsundersøkelse i Ostojeaggi, Troms, som er det første etablerte overvåkingsområdet innen prosjektet. Rapporten presenterer en kortfattet bakgrunn for behovet for overvåking av palsmyr; relevante klimadata for Ostojeaggi; overvåkingsmetoder; og valg av delområder for detaljanalyser av palsformasjoner, markslagsfordeling, teledybde og vegetasjonsfordeling innen Ostojeaggi. Tre delområder er valgt ut, der ett representerer myras typiske palsplatåer, og ett representerer kuppelpalser og erosjonsområder. Innen disse to delområdene er palsposisjoner registrert og detaljanalyser foretatt langs ni permanente analyselinjer. Innen et tredje delområde er kun palsposisjoner registrert for fremtidige analyser av storskalaforandringer ved hjelp av flybildeanalyser. Resultatene fra linjeanalysene er presentert i tabeller og figurer som visualiserer småskalafordelingen av markslag (10 variabler), bunnsjikt (6 variabler), feltsjikt (6 variabler), busksjikt (3 variabler), teledybde samt frekvens av torvsprekker og høyde. Analyselinjene er fotodokumentert og posisjonsregistrert med GPS for framtidige reanalyser hvert femte år. Det finnes ingen flybilder for de siste 20 årene, men flybilder fra 1956 og 1986 indikerer relativt store forandringer innen deler av myra, med tilvekst av nye relativt store palser i perioden fram til 1986. Disse palsene er i dag enten forsvunnet eller betydelig mindre i omfang. I 2004 ble det observert nye muligens efemere palsformasjoner på mange av plassene for palsene fra denne perioden. Neste analyse av området er planlagt til 2009© Norsk institutt for naturforskning Publikasjonen kan siteres fritt med kildeangivels
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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