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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
Körper und Technologie in der postmodernen Perspektive
Get PDFTijelo je povijesni i društveni konstrukt kojeg u postmodernističkoj perspektivi poimamo kao komercijalni simbol. Tradicionalno oblikovano religijskim učenjem, tijelo se diverzificira kroz tehnološke reperkusije. Iz duhovno - tjelesne dihotomije, progresivnim tehnološkim utjecajem, niče kolizija prirodnog i tehničkog koja rađa novi dualizam ljudskog tijela i strojnog organizma. U interakciji s tehnologijom, tijelo se drastično modifi cira pri čemu ljudsko i tehnološko iznuđuje novu paradigmu tjelesnosti. Kiborg, hibrid ljudskog bića i strojnog mehanizma, manifestira tehnološku transformaciju ljudskog tijela. Prema učenju kibernetike, ljudsko tijelo je informacijski sustav koji se može prenijeti u bestjelesno stanje. Kibernetika tako kreira specifi čna tehno - tijela kojima tijelo nije granica, dapače, tijelo se doživljava kao zastarjeli koncept kojeg tehnologija dorađuje u svrhu njegova unaprjeđenja, a moguće i prevladavanja. Tijelo se preobražava uz asistenciju tehnologije: ugradnjom implantata, odstranjivanjem dijelova tijela, konzumiranjem pilula – robota, prišivanjem „treće ruke“, prebacivanjem u virtualni prostor gdje je tijelo kodirani elektronski impuls oslobođen „krvi i mesa“, itd. Tehnologija izmjenjuje percepciju tijela koje se u postmodernizmu elaborira kao dinamičan proces. Takav nas pristup tijelu uvodi u eru post – ljudskosti gdje spoj tehnološkog i čovjekolikog zamagljuje eksplicitne kategorijalne granice ljudskog tijela, prirodnog okoliša i njihove virtualne simulacije.Th e body is a historical and social construct understood as a commercial symbol in the postmodern perspective. From the spiritual-physical dichotomy, through progressive technological influences, comes the collision between natural and technical, which produces a new dualism between the human body and mechanical organism. Th rough interaction with technology, the body is drastically modified, while the human and the technological reveal a new paradigm of corporeality. Th e cyborg, a hybrid between a human being and mechanical mechanism, is a manifestation of technological transformations of the human body. According to cybernetic teachings, the human body is an information system which can be transferred into the state of immateriality. Cybernetics therefore creates specific techno-bodies which are not limited by the body itself. Much to the contrary, the body is seen as an outdated concept which is being updated by technology in order to upgrade it, and possibly overcome. Th e body is transformed with the assistance of technology: implants upgrade, body parts removal, consummation of pills-robots, sewing on of “the third arm”, transfer into virtual space where the body is a coded impulse free of “flesh and blood”, etc. Th is approach to the body takes us into the post-humanity era where the connection between technological and humanlike blurs explicit categorical borders between the human body, natural environment and their virtual simulations.Der Körper ist ein geschichtliches und gesellschaftliches Konstrukt, das wir in der postmodernen Perspektive als kommerzielles Symbol wahrnehmen. Aus der Dichotomie Geist – Körper entsteht, durch einen progressiven technologischen Einfl uss, eine Kollision des Natürlichen und des Technischen, die einen neuen Dualismus des menschlichen Körpers und des maschinellen Organismus erzeugt. In der Interaktion mit der Technologie wird der Körper drastisch modifiziert, wobei das Menschliche und das Technische ein neues Paradigma der Körperlichkeit erzwingt. Der Cyborg, ein Hybrid des menschlichen Wesens und des maschinellen Mechanismus manifestiert eine technologische Transformierung des menschlichen Körpers. Die Kybernetik lernt, dass der menschliche Körper ein Informationssystem ist, das in den Zustand der Schwerelosigkeit übertragen werden kann. Kybernetik kreiert spezifische Technokörper, für die der Körper keine Grenze darstellt, ganz im Gegenteil, der Körper wird als ein veraltetes Konzept empfunden, das die Technologie bearbeitet, damit es verbessert und eventuell überwunden wird. Der Körper wird mit Hilfe der Technologie umwandelt: durch Einbau von Implantaten, Entfernen von Körperteilen, Einnahme intelligenter Pillen, Annähen eines dritten Arms, Versetzen in den virtuellen Raum, wo der Körper zu einem codierten elektronischen Impuls wird, befreit von Fleisch und Blut, usw. Dieser Ansatz führt in eine Ära der Postmenschlichkeit ein, wo die Verbindung vom Technologischen und Menschenähnlichen die expliziten Grenzen zwischen Kategorien des menschlichen Körpers, der natürlichen Umwelt und ihrer virtuellen Simulation verschleiert
Feministische Epistemologie
Get PDFPolazeći od društvene uvjetovanosti znanja i znanosti, ovim se radom nastoje promišljati navedeni koncepti unutar feminističke epistemologije. Obzirom da feministička epistemologija predstavlja kritiku tzv. neutralnog znanja i objektivne znanosti, naglasak je stavljen na društvenu uvjetovanost znanja i znanstvenih pojmova čime se poentira presudnost konteksta i tzv. podruštvljenog znanja. Feministička epistemologija ustanovljava kako se povlaštena afirmacija muškarca kao kreatora znanja i subjekta znanosti ostvaruje kroz nepovoljnu poziciju žene kao marginaliziranog znanstvenog objekta. Muškarac definira pojmove i strukturira teorije, stoga je (pre)vladajuća muška norma ujedno i službena znanstvena (i društvena) norma koja zanemaruje iskustva žena. Iz toga proizlazi da su i sama znanstvena istraživanja seksistički konstruirana pa se kroz znanstvene metode i obrasce perpetuiraju patrijarhalne prakse. Artikulirajući žensko pitanje u znanosti, feministička epistemologija utvrđuje implikacije androcentrične znanstvene tradicije u akademskoj zajednici i svakodnevnici. Termini roda i seksualnosti analiziraju se kroz epistemološka propitkivanja (spo)znanja, prateći genealogiju socijalnih praksi kojima su (pred)određeni. Feminističko epistemološki programi empirijskih zagovornica, postmodernih zastupnica i teoretičarki stajališta u svom diskursu prijedloga apostrofiraju fundamentalnu signaturu feminističke epistemologije: kritiku znanosti, kontekst i zajednicu.Starting with the social conditionality of knowledge and science, this paper attempts to examine the mentioned terms within feminist epistemology, a specific branch of epistemology, the discipline of philosophy. Considering that feminist epistemology represents a criticism of the so-called neutral knowledge and objective science, the emphasis is placed on the social conditionality of knowledge and scientific concepts, thus arguing for the importance of context and the so-called socialized knowledge. Feminist epistemology claims that a privileged position of the male as the creator of knowledge and subject of science is achieved by positioning the female as a marginalized scientific object. The male defines the terms and forms theories, therefore the (over)ruling male norm is at the same time the official scientific (and social) norm that neglects female experiences. Scientific research are thus sexist in their construction while patriarchal practices are perpetrated through scientific methods and forms. By articulating the Woman Question in science, feminist epistemology demonstrates the implications of androcentric scientific tradition in academic community and everyday life. Feministic epistemological programs consist of empirical advocates, postmodern representatives and standpoint theorists who in their discourse of propositions emphasize the fundamental aspects of feminist epistemology: the critique of science, context and community.Von der sozialen Determinierung des Wissens und der Wissenschaft ausgehend wird in dieser Arbeit versucht, die genannten Konzepte durchzudenken, innerhalb eines spezifischen Bereiches der Epistemologie, (die ein Zweig der Philosophie ist), nämlich der feministischen Epistemologie. Da die feministische Epistemologie eine Art Kritik des sogenannten neutralen Wissens und der objektiven Wissenschaft darstellt, wurde die Betonung auf die gesellschaftliche Bedingtheit bestimmter Begriffe gesetzt, wodurch pointiert wird, dass der Kontext und das sog. vergesellschaftlichte Wissen ausschlaggebend sind. Mit der Feststellung der privilegierten Lage des Mannes, der sich als Wissenskreator und Wissenschaftssubjekt affirmiert, aktualisiert die feministische Epistemologie die Position der Frau als ein marginalisiertes Wissenschaftsobjekt. Der Mann definiert Begriffe, strukturiert Theorien, deswegen ist die (vor)herrschende Männernorm gleichzeitig die offizielle wissenschaftliche (und gesellschaftliche) Norm, die die Frauenerfahrungen außer Acht lässt. Daraus ergibt sich, dass selbst wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen sexistisch konstruiert sind, durch wissenschaftliche Methoden werden also patriarchale Praxen perpetuiert. Indem sie die Frauenfrage in der Wissenschaft artikuliert, stellt die feministische Epistemologie Implikationen einer androzentristischen wissenschaftlichen Tradition in der akademischen Gemeinschaft sowie im Alltag fest. Die feministisch epistemologischen Programme von empirischen Befürworterinnen, postmodernen Vertreterinnen und Theoretikerinnen des Standpunktes apostrophieren in ihrem Diskurs die fundamentale Signatur der feministischen Epistemologie: Kritik der Wissenschaft, Kontext und Gemeinschaft
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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