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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
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
On the Postposed Second Person Pronouns in the Imperative Construction in Early Modern English: With Special Reference to Elizabethan Drama
No full text初期近代英語期における命令法動詞の後に二人称代名詞のye, you, thou, theeが伴われるような形式について、William Shakespeareを対象とするものを始め、研究が行われてきた。しかしながら、Shakespeareのみならず、特定の劇作家の命令法動詞の後の二人称代名詞の使用について、全作品を対象とするような網羅的な調査はなされてこなかった。本稿では、エリザベス朝のShakespeareをはじめとする四名の劇作家について、その全戯曲を対象として網羅的な調査を行い、改めて初期近代英語期における命令法動詞の後に二人称代名詞を伴う形式について考察するとともに、劇作家ごとの使用の違いについて明らかにし、文体的な特徴が見られることを指摘する。It is a well-known fact that second personal pronouns such as ye, you, thou, and thee can follow the imperative verbs in Early Modern English. Although there have been some studies concerning this usage, including corpus-based ones mainly treating the use by William Shakespeare, no quantitative and comprehensive research that deal with the use by other playwrights in his contemporary era has been conducted. This paper examines the use of the second person pronouns after the imperative verbs using corpora which comprise of the early editions of all the dramatic works by four playwrights, namely Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson. The current study clarifies individual stylistic tendency of each playwright regarding the use of the imperatives accompanied by the second person pronouns
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
Sister Carrie and the Early Chicago School of Sociology
No full textRobert Park, the leading figure in the Chicago school of urban sociology during its heyday in the 1920s and early 1930s, is said to have openly encouraged his students to read not only the literature of sociology, but also the works of such authors as Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis. Taking Park's advice as a cue, this paper investigates the relationship between the Chicago school of urban sociology and the naturalist movement in American literature, focussing in particular on Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Rolf Lindner has already shown how, in its choice of research subjects and techniques, the Chicago school of urban sociology was greatly influenced by American journalism at the turn of the century. However, Lindner hardly mentions literature. Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie (1900) , is set in Chicago and New York at the end of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of a young girl from a rural Midwest town who finds success as an actress in the big city, while her middle-aged lover comes to ruin. The city is vividly portrayed as a place where a person's social standing rises and falls, where both the bright and dark sides of the emerging consumer culture intermingle. This take on the city is shared by the representative urban monographs of the Chicago school, such as The Hobo, The Ghetto, The Gold Coast and the Slum, and The Taxi-Dance Hall. Sister Carrie is also said to be a counter-narrative to the middle class values of the times (what Santayana called the "genteel tradition") which placed great importance on respectability. Here again we can see correspondences with the Chicago school, which, by investigating the undersides of the metropolis, cultivated an "unrespectable view of society" (P. L. Berger). In this way the Chicago school of sociology was connected to literature, in the broad sense encompassing journalism, especially the literature "after the genteel tradition" of Dreiser, Lewis and others. They were part of the same cultural current. Park emphasized that sociology was a science, but at the same time he advocated that, in regards to the understanding of human nature, sociologists should learn from literature. To conclude this paper, I propose that the Chicago school be reevaluated from the perspective of Wolf Lepenies, who situates sociology between science and literature
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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