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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
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
Challenges of Translating Conversational Implicatures from English to Kiswahili using Computer Assisted Tools: A Case of \u27Google Translate\u27
Get PDFIn this study, we investigated challenges faced by computer assisted translation software with special focus on Google Translate, in translating conversational implicatures from English to Kiswahili. The data for this study were sourced from William Shakespeare\u27s play, “The Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice” which has been translated to Kiswahili as “Othello, Tanzia ya Mtu Mweusi.” The data was informed by Grice’s (1975) conversational implicature theory, and the relevance-theoretic translation approach as postulated by Gutt (1991). To evaluate the quality of Google Translate computer assisted translation system, we made a comparison of the computer translated output with the human translated text to ascertain to what extent the meaning of the conversational implicatures in the source language is preserved in the target text. We further examined challenges encountered by Google Translate in the process of translating conversational implicatures and suggested what could be done to improve Google Translate method to ensure accuracy in translating conversational implicatures. The results indicate that, there is inferior translation quality of the target text with ambiguous words and sentences. Also, it was observed that it is challenging to translate conversational implicatures using Google Translate because it has not been programmed to process aspects of source culture or adapt to the aspects of target culture thus cannot correctly translate conversational implicatures. Besides that, other challenges posed range from lexical, syntactic, and semantic to pragmatic mismatch
Kumbukizi ya ‘Baba wa Kiswahili’ Mohamed Hassan Abdulaziz Mkilifi: Novemba 11, 1932 – Julai 10, 2023
No full textMohamed Hassan Abdulaziz who is popularly known as ‘Mkilifi’ is a most renowned scholar in Kiswahili. He passed on on 10th July 2023 at the age of 91 years. His former students Iribe Mwangi and Bitugi Matundura pay homage to Professor Abdulaziz as one of the most celebrated scholars having taught and supervised many Kiswahili students, not only in East Africa but beyond, spanning over five decades. He is best known for his classic book entitled Muyaka: 19th Century Swahili Popular Poetry which was published in 1979. His books and articles in refereed journals on Kiswahili language and literature will remain invaluable reference material for many Kiswahili language and literary scholars now and in the future. May his soul rest in eternal peace
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