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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
Madrasa et réislamisation au Cameroun septentrional : anthropologie politique d'une instance de changement social
No full textThe madrasa appeared in the region of sub-Saharan Africa in the fifties. In Cameroon, it can be described as a theological school professing in Arabic, on the fringe of the state’s educational system, proposing a structured religious teaching, structuring new identities and new social reports. It is a source of hybrid modernity. This in-depth study examines the establishment itineraries of these schools, their functions, the modalities of their creation and their figures. This allowed this empirical and theoretical investigation in social and human sciences to take ground in the field of education and to seize the transformation that moulds the Cameroonian Muslim society. Furthermore, the study enabled us to dissect the contribution of an “of track” society in the setting of a –human capital that is more or less efficient in distributing social and institutional positions. The contemporary madrasa was born in a colonial context, emerging from an educational and religious reform aimed at reducing the delay of Muslim societies on the occidental world. It was involved, in Cameroon as well as in Sahelian Africa, in the social dynamic of reislamisation and in the movement of subversion of the traditional Islamic model. This work enabled us to observe how the cultural and symbolic capital stored in this institution is reused by people as a resource and an instrument at the service of emancipation and social ascension strategies. It observes how it leads to strategies of subversion of established state models (State, patriarchy, religious order), and how it leads to the grabbing of leadership in Muslim environments by “bottom social actors” and lettered person “in lack of state” that have decided to subtract themselves from the promised social destiny of the people that have no official school education. The development of the madâris in Cameroon is therefore a form of social resilience and an indicator of the capacity of graduated Arabic people to undertake, (even on a political level) in response of the limits of the state to take over the education and de social recognition of every person. Furthermore, the madrasa brought about an opening up to the masses and a feminization of the religious teaching and the emancipation of woman, once cloistered. These phenomena are also indicators of the incompletion of the domination phenomenon and of the agency of the dominated, including inside religious institutions. The madrasa appears therefore as the generator of a new social order that created a new source of legitimacy and new forms and places of power in Muslim societies. At the center of the Islamic awakening, the madrasa deploys an Arabo-Islamic education that, certainly detains a potential of spiritual and cultural emancipation and participate to promote social mobility of some learners, but also reveals itself, in general more as a « D system », constructing a mix of consolation and adoration, rather than a real alternative educative system to the state’s educational system. The new institutions and social practices that the madrasa generated did not bring about the disappearance of the ancient ones. They are the epicenter of Islamic Modernity but so far they proved to be incapable of creating the conditions of an accomplished emancipation of individuals and social groups that have placed their trust in this educative system and, by extension, in the Islamic model.La madrasa apparait en Afrique subsaharienne autour des années 1950. Au Cameroun, elle prend la figure d’une école de théologie professant en langue arabe, en marge du système éducatif étatique, proposant un enseignement religieux structuré, structurant de nouvelles identités et des rapports sociaux nouveaux, sources d’une modernité hybride. Ce travail d’étude approfondie des itinéraires d’implantation, des fonctions, des modalités de formation, et des figures de cette école, a permis de porter l’investigation empirique et théorique en sciences sociales et humaines sur le terrain éducatif, pour saisir les transformations qui travaillent la société musulmane camerounaise et pour disséquer les contributions d’une scolarisation « hors champ » dans la constitution d’un capital humain plus ou moins efficient à la distribution des positions sociales et institutionnelles. La madrasa contemporaine est née en contexte colonial, d’une réforme éducative et religieuse destinée à combler le retard des sociétés musulmanes sur le monde occidental. Elle a participé au Cameroun comme en Afrique sahélienne à la dynamique sociale de réislamisation et au mouvement de dégagisme de l’islam traditionnel. Ce travail a permis d’observer comment le capital culturel et symbolique engrangé dans cette institution est réutilisé en tant que ressource et instrument au service des stratégies d’émancipation et d’ascension sociales, de subversion des modèles établis (État, patriarcat, ordre religieux) et de captation du leadership en milieux musulmans, par des acteurs sociaux « d’en bas » et des lettrés « en manque d’État » décidés à se soustraire du destin social promis aux déscolarisés du système éducatif officiel. Le développement des madâris au Cameroun est ainsi une forme de résilience sociale et un indicateur de capacité d’entreprendre, y compris politique des diplômés arabisants devant les limites de l’État à prendre en charge l’éducation et la consécration sociale de tous. La massification et la féminisation de l’enseignement religieux qu’elles ont entrainées en même temps que l’émancipation des femmes autrefois recluses sont aussi des indicateurs de l’inachèvement du phénomène de domination et de l’aptitude à l’agentivité des dominées, y compris au sein des institutions religieuses. La madrasa apparait ainsi comme génératrice d’une nouvelle donne sociale, qui a vu émerger dans la mouvance de son développement, des sources nouvelles de légitimité, des formes et des lieux nouveaux de pouvoir dans les sociétés musulmanes. Foyer du réveil islamique, la madrasa déploie une éducation arabo-islamique qui, certes, recèle un potentiel d’émancipation spirituelle et culturelle, et participe à la promotion et à la mobilité sociales de certains apprenants, mais se révèle, dans l’ensemble, davantage être un « système D », bricolant une formation de consolation et d’adoration, qu’une réelle alternative éducative au système scolaire étatique. Les nouvelles institutions et pratiques sociales qu’elle a générées n’ont pas entrainé la disparition des anciennes. La modernité islamique dont elle est l’épicentre s’est montrée — jusque là — incapable de créer les conditions d’une émancipation aboutie des individus ou des groupes sociaux qui ont placé leur confiance dans ce système éducatif et par extension dans le modèle islamique .(POLS - Sciences politiques et sociales) -- UCL, 202
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
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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