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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
Putting the Public into Public Radio: Web 2.0 Interactivity and RNZ National
No full textA new relationship paradigm is forming between public radio and its audience, due to the introduction of Web 2.0 technology that allows for the audience to interact easily with the broadcaster, from the platform of their choice. This paradigm contrasts with the traditional model of public broadcasting which provided the audience with a one-way media experience. New Zealand public service broadcaster RNZ National was used as a case study for this research project. Using grounded theory methodology the phenomenon of audience interactivity on public radio was studied from both sides of the microphone meaning that programme makers were interviewed and the contributions by listeners were analysed. Feedback content (comments contributed and read on-air) was recorded across most day-parts. News stories and interviews, as well as the comments of hosts and other listeners, acted as prompts, motivating the audience to engage with the broadcaster. Those topics with an emotional relevance to the audience attracted the most response. RNZ National staff responsible for the creation of content were surveyed for their views on the role of audience interactivity. All staff expressed the view that feedback is now an important component of the network's content. The number of comments broadcast indicates that Web 2.0's interactive technology has been readily adopted by the audience. The conversational tone of much feedback suggests that the audience perceive the host as a friend, and that their interactivity is a communication taking place within a relationship. By incorporating audience interactivity into its programme content, RNZ National has put the public into New Zealand public radio
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
Fool About My Money - A cultural history of Rip It Up magazine 1977 - 2010
No full textRip It Up, New Zealand’s longest-surviving music magazine, was founded by Murray Cammick in 1977. During its history Rip It Up has faced numerous musical and cultural trends that have affected music journalism in many ways. Since 1977 new ideas, styles and genres of music have spread through the global popular music industry and have affected New Zealand’s music culture. From early punk rock to post-millenial dubstep, Rip It Up has been a significant part of these musical trends. The magazine has been a major force in New Zealand’s music scene for more than 30 years, and many of its writers have made successful careers built on their time as a “rock scribe” for Rip It Up.
This thesis analyses the history of Rip It Up magazine from 1977 until 2010. It follows the magazine’s development from a free newsprint fanzine-style paper to a glossy commercial entity owned by a corporate media conglomerate. It discusses the magazine’s history in terms of cultural trends as well as global issues that face music journalism such as gender representation, political economy and credibility. Over the period examined by this thesis, journalism has changed radically in how it is made and consumed from ink splashed newsprint to the soft glow of a tablet computer screen. The history of Rip It Up is a microcosm of the history of New Zealand’s popular culture over these three decades, and offers insights into how journalism and music have changed as new economic, social and cultural forces have affected the production and consumption of global popular culture. Rip It Up links the past with the present and points to an uncertain future as print media becomes increasingly weightless, massless and instantly everywhere in the age of digital publication. The music is by no means over yet
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
Fool About My Money - A Cultural History of Rip It Up Magazine 1977 - 2010
No full textRip It Up, New Zealand’s longest-surviving music magazine, was founded by Murray Cammick in 1977. During its history Rip It Up has faced numerous musical and cultural trends that have affected music journalism in many ways. Since 1977 new ideas, styles and genres of music have spread through the global popular music industry and have affected New Zealand’s music culture. From early punk rock to post-millenial dubstep, Rip It Up has been a significant part of these musical trends. The magazine has been a major force in New Zealand’s music scene for more than 30 years, and many of its writers have made successful careers built on their time as a “rock scribe” for Rip It Up.
This thesis analyses the history of Rip It Up magazine from 1977 until 2010. It follows the magazine’s development from a free newsprint fanzine-style paper to a glossy commercial entity owned by a corporate media conglomerate. It discusses the magazine’s history in terms of cultural trends as well as global issues that face music journalism such as gender representation, political economy and credibility. Over the period examined by this thesis, journalism has changed radically in how it is made and consumed from ink splashed newsprint to the soft glow of a tablet computer screen. The history of Rip It Up is a microcosm of the history of New Zealand’s popular culture over these three decades, and offers insights into how journalism and music have changed as new economic, social and cultural forces have affected the production and consumption of global popular culture. Rip It Up links the past with the present and points to an uncertain future as print media becomes increasingly weightless, massless and instantly everywhere in the age of digital publication. The music is by no means over yet
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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