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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
Literary architecture, dwelling and the return-home in the works of rachel seiffert
Get PDFLa escritora británica Rachel Seiffert (1971-.) ha recibido una atención crítica literaria por su galardonada novela The dark room (2001) y ha ganado varios premios literarios. Su ultimo novela A boy in Winter (2017), apareció en la lista de libros notables del prestigioso New York Times y fue nominada “The Times book of the year”, que confirma la importancia indiscutible de su aportación a la literatura contemporánea. Sin embargo, su visión del mundo no ha sido todavía suficientemente estudiada en toda su complejidad histórica y humana. Así, los todavía escasos estudios académicos que existen han abordado casi exclusivamente su trabajo a través del prisma del Holocausto, el trauma y el discurso post-memorial excluyendo otras áreas de interés, en particular aquellas que conectan su obra con una gama más amplia de escritores que plantean preguntas sobre la condición humana en el contexto de la globalización y sus grandes retos: la identidad individual y colectiva, la inmigración, el ecologismo, el exilio y los refugiados, la destrucción del sentido existencial de la vivienda con el resultante desarraigo y ansiedad existencial.
Esta tesis adopta un enfoque multidisciplinario, examinando la ficción de Seiffert desde un punto de vista sociológico y filosófico, es decir, a través de un marco que integra los conceptos heideggerianos de ‘habitar’ y lugar, la ‘poética del espacio’ de Bachelard, la ‘arquitectura literaria’ de Ellen Eve Frank y los conceptos de lugar. Estas teorías filosóficas bien conocidas como tales, pero insuficientemente representadas dentro de la crítica literaria, permiten una lectura más profunda de los textos en cuestión que destaque la importancia de las relaciones existentes entre comunidad y el lugar, la ecología y la interdependencia de la humanidad entre sí y con el universo. el objetivo principal es, pues, mostrar cómo Seiffert se distancia del sinsentido y el pesimismo de la literatura posmoderna para situarse dentro del re-constructivismo con su énfasis en una necesaria regeneración propiciada por valores organicistas y humanistas. La integración de estos marcos filosóficos y sociológicos permite concluir que los textos analizados en esta tesis suponen un redescubrimiento en el contexto contemporáneo del sentido filosófico del hogar, es decir, de un sentido del habitar plenamente humano que incluye la comunidad, la familia y la tolerancia hacia el Otro; la autenticidad existencial, la sensibilidad al entorno natural; y, en última instancia, también los objetos materiales que configuran nuestra cotidiana existencia humana.British writer Rachel Seiffert (1971 - ) has received critical attention for her award-winning novel The Dark Room (2001) and has won several literary prizes. Her latest novel, A Boy in Winter (2017) appeared on The New York Time’s Notable Book list and was nominated The Time’s Book of the Year. Yet despite an evidently growing reputation, there have been few scholarly studies, and these have almost exclusively approached her work through Holocaust, trauma and post-memorial discourse to the exclusion of other areas of interest, which would align her with a wider array of contemporary writers who pose questions about the modern human condition and reflect socio-political issues, such as identity and borders, globalization and environmentalism, displacement, physical and philosophical homelessness, placelessness and existential anxiety.
The present thesis takes a multi-disciplinary approach, examining her fiction prinicipally through philosophical, sociological and literary frameworks, with emphasis on Heideggerian concepts of dwelling and place, Bachelard’s poetics of space, Ellen Eve Frank’s Literary Architecture, and concepts of place. These well-known yet largely disregarded theories within literary criticism enable a more profound reading than hitherto, highlighting the significance of community and place, ecology and the fundamental interdependence of humanity with each other and the universe. The overriding claim is that Seiffert’s work distances itself from the meaninglessness and pessimism of postmodernist literature and may be placed within reconstructivism in its emphasis on organicist, humanist values. The reconciliation between philosophical and sociological frameworks permits the conclusion that the texts analysed in this thesis speak to a way forward, a philosophical return-home and to dwelling-well that embraces community, family and tolerance towards the Other, existential authenticity, sensitivity to the natural environment and to the simple everyday experiences and objects that make up human existence
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
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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