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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
Book Review: Equity Jurisprudence
No full textThis work purports to be a treatise upon the entire field of equity. The point of view of the author is the traditional one-namely that equity is in itself a distinct and unified branch of jurisprudence. The method which the author has employed in the treatment of his subject is likewise the traditional one. Notwithstanding, he conceives of himself as a pioneer in this field. His notion is that equity has been treated too much as the sum of the jurisdictional factors of the Chancery courts, the growth of which has been outlined largely by the shortcomings of the common law. He insists that equity has been "viewed too much in the light of a historical accident, a congeries or catalogue of maxims and standards of conduct for tribunals of a certain type." His thesis is that "equity is far more than a heritage of the past" and that "law schools should accord to it the position of dignity in the science of jurisprudence to which it is fairly entitled." After the announcement of these views in his preface, the author proceeds to develop and expound his subject in the same manner that has been employed by the majority of scholars in his field in the past
Book Review: The Revival of Natural Law Concepts
Get PDFIn the preparation of this book, the author has allowed a good deal of latitude to his concept of natural law. The array of theories and writers which he parades before the reader bears witness to the liberality of his notion of a higher law. From Utopian to Duguit is a long step in juristic thinking as well as juristic history. Yet both come within the limits of appropriate treatment of the problem, as Professor Haines conceives it. That problem is to indicate the significance of natural law and all kindred ideas in the development of both the philosophy and the content of law, and their probable significance for the future
Book Review: Salmond on the Law of Torts
Get PDFThe pre-eminence of the author and the distinction of the editor make this, theeighth edition of Salmond on Torts, a book to challenge the attention of the legal professionboth in England and America. Since the first edition in 1907, this book rapidly attained, and has maintained, its position as a classic exposition of the law of tort.Indeed, Sir John Salmond contributed much to the development of tort law as a distinct body of rules, the coherence of which depended upon certain demonstrable legal principles. The present edition, the second by Dr. Stallybrass, is of particular interest in that it represents a great deal more than what is commonly understood as a new edition of an older text. When in 1928, the editor undertook the seventh edition of this work, he quite properly imposed that restraint upon his efforts which is to be expected when one scholar first edits the text of another. In prefacing that edition,the editor stated: "I have in general only departed from Sir John Salmond's treatment of a topic where either new cases or fresh research have made his views no longer tenable"(p. viii). In the present edition, however, the editor has felt free to depart not only from the text of his author but to abandon fundamental principles from which analytical development proceeds. In a very true sense the present work can properly be described as Stallybrass rather than Salmond on torts. For example, in the seventh edition the editor made use of the device of excursus in which to set forth views on particular problems which varied greatly from those held by Salmond and which presumably the editor regarded as equally or more tenable than those of his author. In the present edition, this method is abandoned, although there is no failure to indicate in fairly controversial situations wherein the views set forth differ from those held by the author. In the judgment of the reviewer, Dr. Stallybrass has performed a task of great merit. He has extended the life of a text which has enjoyed a justifiable popularity. He has qualified the text and, when necessary, altered the method of analysis of tort problems to conform to the development of legal thought in this field during the last dozen years. To do so required not only great courage but great familiarity with case-law and the writings of legal scholars over a very wide field
Book Review: Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian
No full textAs a source for many helpful sidelights on legal history, the eminent author regards the novels of Charles Dickens as particularly valuable. "There are," he says, "two main reasons why Dickens' pictures of the courts, the lawyers, and the law of his day have this unique value. In the first place, they give us information which we can get nowhere else. In the second place, these pictures were painted by a man with extraordinary powers of observation, who had first hand information.
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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