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Work in progress: A tribute to John Stephens
No full textHow does one go about writing a tribute to someone who over three decades has published a substantial and influential body of work on children’s literature, delivered conference papers around the world, served with distinction on key journals and committees, and taught and supervised enough students to populate a small island? Emeritus Professor John Stephens officially retired several years ago from Macquarie University, Australia, but has shown that ‘retirement’ can offer a rewarding (and hectic) space to continue one’s passion, scholarship and mentoring, unencumbered by the demands of full-time university employment. John Stephens remains in demand – travelling internationally several times a year to deliver keynote addresses and conduct specialist workshops in children’s literature in China, Iran and North America (and no doubt other places). He has been the recipient of two prestigious international awards – the 11th International Brothers Grimm Award for Research into Children’s Literature in 2007 and the Anne Devereaux Jordan Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature in 2014. These awards acknowledge not only the sheer volume of his output but also his considerable contribution to scholarship and service. Given John’s ongoing writing and activities in the field, this tribute’s title ‘work in progress’ seems apposite..
Mrs. John Stephens looking at fish in aquarium
No full textPhotograph shows Mrs. John Stephens looking in fish tank in aquarium at San Antonio Zoo.''During her week's visit here Mrs. John Stephens, Philadelphia, made it a must to see the aquarium, the newest attraction at the Brackenridge Park zoo. Here she is viewing the goggle-eyed perch and the Rio Grande perch.''.Harvey Belgin, Light Staff Photographer.'
Engineers John Stephens and Darryll Cagle
No full textEngineers play a key role at Champion, increasing quality and production while decreasing costs. In this 1960 photograph, electrical engineer John Stephens (left) instructs Darryll Cagle, a new engineer, on the functions of No. 11 Machine controls. More information about this photograph can be found in the Champion publication The Log. Click the 1st link in the “Related Materials” field to view the article on pages 24-27. An oral history interview conducted with Darryll Cagle can also be found by clicking the 2nd link in the “Related Materials” field
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
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