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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
The Explication of Mythology and Ecology in Eliot’s The Waste Land
Full text linkEliot’s The Waste Land worries the twentieth-century Anglo-American culture to uncover the distance of the modern Western countries from the natural world, close to anxiety. However complicated desire to be re-cooperative with natural powers. The poem’s dry universe of broken and scattered images mirrors the divided condition of the urbanized soul and its desacralized condition. Eliot realized the spiritual malaise of the modern period humans underwent and the estrangement of the human mind from the natural world. Examining the curtial images in the poem demonstrates Eliot’s modernist feeling of anxiety that foretells much about eco-critical argument concerning mythic symbols in the poem.
Rain Against Glass: The Objective Correlative in Ocean Vuong’s “Aubade with Burning City”
Full text linkThis paper examines how Ocean Vuong’s poem “Aubade with Burning City” utilizes the literary device of the objective correlative to convey emotional and historical trauma. Drawing on T.S. Eliot’s theory, which argues that emotion is best expressed through a set of symbolic objects and images rather than direct statement, the research analyzes Vuong’s imagery—snowfall in Saigon, the sound of “White Christmas,” and the motif of a burning city—as emotionally charged corollaries to love, war, and loss. By blending personal memory with national catastrophe, Vuong expands the objective correlative beyond Eliot’s original conception, situating it within a transnational and postcolonial framework. The study applies a close reading approach alongside insights from trauma theory and modernist criticism to demonstrate how Vuong’s sensory and formal techniques engage the reader in an embodied experience of dislocation and remembrance. Ultimately, the paper argues that Vuong reinvents the objective correlative to reflect the complexities of diasporic identity and collective memory, offering a powerful model for how contemporary poetry can ethically represent trauma. This research contributes to a growing body of literature on affect, memory, and formal innovation in twenty-first-century poetry
The Spiritual Journey in T.S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi”: A Psychological Approach
Full text linkT.S. Eliot’s poem “The Journey of the Magi,” published in 1927, delves deeply into the themes of spiritual and existential development as it recounts the challenging voyage of the Magi to see the birth of Christ. This study examines how Eliot’s modernist approaches mirror the overarching themes of existential alienation and the quest for significance in a society characterised by fragmentation. The value of this research is in its placement within modernist literature, where the poem functions as a critical examination of the modernist obsession with disillusionment and the search for meaning. A Psychological approached is used to analyse the spirituality of the poem
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Exploration of the Hollowness of the Modern Men in T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (1925): An Analytical Approach
Full text linkT.S. Eliot has reached a stage of maturity in which he confirms the hollowness of the modern men. This realization may be due to his strong religious belief and his personal experience. His religious belief is a mixture of his previous belief and his new religious belief and these have been clear in “The Hollow Men”. Also his personal experience is quite rich as he has lived in the US and moved to England as well as visited Germany and France. Eliot has started the poems with two epigraphs which carry significant meanings and the beginning of the poem is a great stage as it contains the confession of the modern hollow men who act as Mr. Kirtz of The Heart of Darkness. Modern man is empty of spirituality, religion and real love as Eliot presented it in “The Hollow Men”. A textual approached is used along with a historical approach to explore the emptiness and hollowness of the modern man. It was found out that Eliot did not mean to humiliate the hollow men, but he rather praises them for repenting from their sins.
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