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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
World Society and Terrorism
Get PDFThe terrorist attacks on the WTC in New York and the Pentagon in Washington in September 2001 were seen by many observers as phenomena belonging to an emergent world society. From this point of view globalization brings about not only economic advantages like prospering world markets and global wealth, but also an internationalization of terrorism as the dark side of global modernity.
This article takes a closer look at four theoretical perspectives of world society—Immanuel Wallerstein’s world system, Niklas Luhmann’s systemic approach to world society, Ulrich Beck’s world risk society, and Richard Münch’s structural functionalist approach to world society—and discusses the explanations provided by these theories for the new forms of globalized violence. Although they provide differing and interesting perspectives on worldwide terrorism and probable background and reasons, the author concludes that none of these theories is able to present a reasonable theory-led explanation of the attacks, mainly due to the gap between abstract theorizing and neglected empirical facts
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
Das gesellschaftliche Geschlechterverhältnis als Konfliktfeld
Get PDFOb wir Geschlecht in der Struktur eines konflikthaft entwickelten gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisses begreifen oder wie wir historische und aktuelle Konflikte zwischen Männern und Frauen analysieren und bearbeiten, hängt davon ab, in welcher Art über Geschlecht gedacht, geredet und verhandelt wird. Geschlecht ist - wie jede Kategorie gesellschaftlicher Ordnung - durch vorgängige gesellschaftliche Prozesse strukturiert und wirkt gleichzeitig strukturierend auf aktuelles und zukünftiges Geschehen. Folglich ist Geschlecht immer nur historisch eingebettet zu verstehen, die faktischen Ausprägungen richten sich nach politischen und ökonomischen Möglichkeiten wie soziokulturellen Entwicklungen. Damit verweisen Konflikte um Geschlecht auf aktuelle psychische oder soziale Probleme, auf veränderte öffentliche Diskurse, auf Unstimmigkeiten in individuellen oder kollektiven geschlechtsbezogenen Praktiken oder auf unangepasste Räume und Zeiten samt ihren materialisierten Ge-schlechtszuweisungen. Dies bedeutet u.a., dass sich eine wissenschaftliche Thematisierung von Geschlecht nicht länger auf eine natürliche, biologisch bzw. anthropologisch begründete Unterscheidung von Genusgruppen berufen kann, sondern jeweils die Relevanzkriterien suchen muss, die dem Problemfeld angemessen sind. Der Beitrag thematisiert entsprechend Konfliktursachen und Konfliktgeschichte, vier Fassetten des Konfliktgegenstands, Akteure und Austragungsformen des Geschlechterkonfliktes sowie Möglichkeiten der Konfliktregelung
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
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