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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
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Tales of the Unexpected: Contesting Syari'ah Law in Aceh, Indonesia
No full textMy dissertation examines a wide range of social and political impacts that have emerged from the state implementation of Syari’ah (Sharia) in the Indonesian province of Aceh within the last two-decades. Syari’ah is Islamic way of belief and practice but in Aceh it was initially imposed by the central government as a political move to undercut popular support for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM). After the peace settlement, its political characters intensified. Seeing the current implementation of Syari’ah as a state-directed project, my research investigates the everyday workings and Acehnese popular perceptions of the Syari’ah law. Despite the government’s enormous efforts to strengthen its enforcement, my study found that the enforcement of Syari’ah law has become the subject of popular resistance among many groups in Aceh. Various groups ranging from local Muslim intellectuals, women’s rights activists, to punk communities have come forward to contest the state Syari’ah project. Drawing upon a timely picture of internal contestations in Acehnese Muslim society I demonstrate the unexpected outcomes of enforcing Syari’ah through a modern state bureaucracy. This complex scenario offers its own valuable lessons for our understanding of the relationship between religious law and the modern state.Anthropolog
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
Provisional Notes on How “Hilarious” Living Under Sharia Law (The Case of Aceh)
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Drawing upon anthropological theory of resistance and testing its limits, I will present a closer observation on how dissenting voices to the state project of Sharia in contemporary Aceh look on the ground. Without thereby renouncing its violent effects, some ethnographic stories I recount in this writing will reveal how the implementation of Sharia in contemporary Aceh has created inherently amusing situations and how it has occasionally become a humor producing machine
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
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
Cultural and Religious Tensions in Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study of the Meujalateh Ritual in Ie Itam Baroh, Woyla, West Aceh: Tensi Budaya dan Agama dalam Menghadapi Pandemi Covid-19: Studi Ritual Meujalateh Masyarakat Ie Itam Baroh, Woyla, Aceh Barat
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has reignited the practice of religious rituals in Indonesia as a means to respond to the spread of the virus. One notable example is the Meujalateh ritual performed by the Woyla community in West Aceh, aimed at "warding off" the coronavirus. While some perceive this ritual as a religious practice rooted in Islamic teachings, others consider it a customary tradition. This study frames Meujalateh as part of the oral tradition of the Acehnese people. By using the oral tradition paradigm, this research explores the cultural and communal significance of the ritual, highlighting its value as an intangible cultural heritage that should be preserved, developed, and utilized for future generations
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