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Interesting new Chinese species of Leptoceridae and Odontoceridae (Insecta Trichoptera) from several recent collecting efforts
No full textYang, Lian-Fang, Hu, Ben-Jin, Morse, John C. (2020): Interesting new Chinese species of Leptoceridae and Odontoceridae (Insecta Trichoptera) from several recent collecting efforts. Zootaxa 4766 (4): 593-593, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.4.
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
A Consideration of the Hu-ben ban-jian 虎賁班剣, the Variegated Sword of Soldiers Brave as Tigers : Tales of Origins and Imperially Bestowed Gifts and Special Privileges in the Han and Six Dynasties
Full text linkThe term en-ci 恩賜 refers to the various types of gifts or privileges bestowed by the emperor on his subjects. Among these gifts and privileges were special ones called shu-li 殊禮. In this article I take up the case of the Hu-ben ban-jian 虎賁班劍 a variegated sword of the soldiers brave as tigers, which is representative of the special privileges bestowed in the Han and Six Dynasties periods, and then consider its historical significance. The term hu-ben 虎賁, literally brave as a tiger, originally designated a soldier in the emperor's service, but in the period of the Han and Six Dynasties ornamental arms bestowed on subjects were given this appellation. The ban-jian 班劍 was a wooden replica of a sword which had been used at court since Jin 晉 times. The soldiers, hu-ben, decorated with the ban-jian, were thus known as hu-ben ban-jian (abbreviated ban-jian). It is thought that the imperial bestowal of the Hu-ben ban-jian was a special privilege granted to distinguish Grand Councilors 宰相 who held the honorary title Bulwark of Government 輔政 (or other offcials of equally exalted status) and that the numbers of possessors alloted on one constituted various status boundaries. The number of the emperor's hu-ben, Warriors Brave as Tigers, was conceived as ideally numbering eight hundred. Those alloted one hundred sword-bearers were situated on the boundary between the emperor and his subjects, but the bestowal of the even larger number of three hundred sword-bearers (one of the nine types of awards 九錫) indicated the recipient was no longer a subject. Thus, the number bestowed was limited to one hundred for national funeral rites on the basis of the "the tale of Huo Guang 霍光" (General-in-chief Serving as Commander-in-chief 大司馬大將軍 of the Former Han), following the Wei and Jin periods, but, in reality, an upper limit of sword possessors who might be bestowed on a subject was set at sixty on the basis of the "the tale of Zhu-ge Liang 諸葛亮" (Counselor-in-chief 丞相 of the state of Shu 蜀 of the Three Kingdoms). However, following the period of the alternating Jin and Song dynasties, this number was limited to those bestowed at funerals on the basis of "the tale of Wang Hong 王弘" （the Grand Guardian of the Song 宋). The greatest number bestowed on a living recipient was forty under Liu Yu 劉裕, Wu di of the Song, and this number was further reduced to thirty in the late Southern Dynasties period. On the other hand, under the Northern Dynasties, Xiao-wen di 孝文帝 of the Northern Wei 北魏, in what is thought to have probably been an adoption of Southern practice, soon limited the practice to funeral rites on the basis of "the Tale of Wei Yuan 尉元" (An Elder 三老 of Northern Wei), and this practice was continued into the early Tang. The practice of bestowing hu-ben ban-jian on living recipients ceased with Tai zong's 太宗 award to Li Shi-min 李世民 and his brothers, and posthumous awards also ceased after the Zhen-guan 貞觀 era. The numbers of the hu-ben ban-jian bestowed within the hierarchy in which the emperor stood at the apex indicates that the emperor's authority in the Han and Six Dynasties had yet to be established as absolute. Therefore, the aim of imperial authority to gradually reduce the number of bestowals on subjects can be understood as an effort to centralize imperial authority
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
FIGURE 7. Oecetis spp. n., female genitalia. 7A–7C in Interesting new Chinese species of Leptoceridae and Odontoceridae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from several recent collecting efforts
No full textFIGURE 7. Oecetis spp. n., female genitalia. 7A–7C, Oecetis (O.) discedens Yang & Morse, sp. n.: 7A, left lateral; 7B, dorsal; 7C, ventral. 7D, 7F, Oecetis (Pleurograpta) spinellosa Yang & Hu, sp. n.: 7D, left lateral; 7F, ventral.Published as part of Yang, Lian-Fang, Hu, Ben-Jin & Morse, John C., 2020, Interesting new Chinese species of Leptoceridae and Odontoceridae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from several recent collecting efforts, pp. 138-160 in Zootaxa 4732 (1) on page 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/366261
FIGURE 1 in Interesting new Chinese species of Leptoceridae and Odontoceridae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from several recent collecting efforts
No full textFIGURE 1. Ceraclea (C.) megalophyllon Yang & Morse, sp. n., male genitalia. 1A, left lateral; 1B, dorsal; 1C, ventral; 1D, phallus, left lateral.Published as part of Yang, Lian-Fang, Hu, Ben-Jin & Morse, John C., 2020, Interesting new Chinese species of Leptoceridae and Odontoceridae (Insecta: Trichoptera) from several recent collecting efforts, pp. 138-160 in Zootaxa 4732 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/366261
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
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