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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
Mortals’ offering to the gods: Martin Heidegger’s interpretation of the thing
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to track out things’ thingness in Martin Heidegger’s The Thing. Departing from the ontological difference between a thing and an object, we will go on examining the way an everyday thing, a jug, through its symbolically being used, becomes something much more important than a mere tool of serving; namely, through the act of the outpouring as an offering to the gods, Heidegger radically changes our conception of the thing, via the latter’s becoming the space of the mortals’ being appropriated by the gods in the span between the earth and the sky, namely the “Fourfold”.El objetivo de este articulo es hallar la coseidad de las cosas en la obra La Cosa de Martin Heidegger. Partiendo de la diferencia ontológica entre una cosa y un objeto seguiremos examinando la manera en que una cosa ordinaria, una jarra, a través de su uso simbólico, se convierte en algo mucho más importante que una simple herramienta de servir; concretamente, a través del acto de la efusión como ofrenda a los dioses, Heidegger cambia radicalmente nuestra concepción de la cosa, con esta última convirtiéndose al espacio entre el cielo y la tierra donde los mortales se apropian por los dioses, es decir la “Cuadratura”
Enmarcando la teoría del enemigo como una ecuación: el uso de drones militares y sus implicaciones morales en la guerra moderna
Get PDFEl objetivo del presente artículo es analizar
las consecuencias ontológicas y morales que surgen del uso de los drones militares en la
guerra moderna. Más concretamente, a través del análisis llevado a cabo por el filósofo
Glenn Gray, discurriremos acerca de los peligros que yacen en la creación de un “enemigo
abstracto”, que nace como consecuencia directa de la deshumanización del enemigo en
nuestro vocabulario y pensamiento. Además, se subrayarán los desafíos morales que el
uso de los drones militares podría provocar a los ciudadanos no combatientes en la guerra
moderna, así como los cambios radicales que dicho uso puede acarrear en nuestra manera
de concebir la ética militar.The aim of this article is to analyze both the ontological and moral consequences stemming
from the use of military drones in modern warfare. More specifically, through the analysis
made by the philosopher Glenn Gray, we will focus on the dangers lurking in the creation
of an “abstract enemy”, through his dehumanization in our vocabulary and thought; in
addition, emphasis will be laid upon the moral challenges the use of military drones might
generate with reference to the noncombatant civilians in modern warfare and the radical
changes this use might entail for our approach towards military ethics
The importance of evil for the understanding of Freedom and its role in the emergence of the personality in Friedrich Schelling’s Freiheitsschrift
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to present Schelling’s idea of the emergence of the human being in his Freedom Essay; namely, how human being, rising from the Ground of God, is from the very first moment interwined in the interplay of the Ground and the Existence of God becoming, thus, the only being of the Creation bearing the essential possibility of choosing freely what it wants to will. Furthermore, we will try to see how evil is a necessary condition for both human being’s being able to be free and for the moulding of his personality.El objetivo de este artículo es presentar la idea de emergencia del ser humano ofrecida por Schelling en su Tratado de la esencia de la libertad humana. Se discurre sobre como el ser humano, alzándose desde el Fundamento de Dios, desde el primer momento se halla estrechamente entrelazado en la interacción entre el Fundamento y la Existencia de Dios, erigiéndose así como único ser de la Creación que posee la posibilidad esencial de elegir libremente el objeto de su voluntad. Además, el texto trata de mostrar que el mal es una condición necesaria tanto para que el ser humano sea capaz de ser libre como para moldear su personalidad
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
Afrontando los retos de la modernidad : Martin Heidegger y el rol de las humanidades
Get PDFThis article’s goal is to examine why and how Humanities –Philosophy, in particular– can still play an important role in our understanding the modern society’s problems of being and the ontological challenges they raise. Taking as point of departure Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, emphasis will be laid on the analysis of technology’s role in modern man’s life as well as on the significance of Sacred and of Being in a western society shadowed by Nietzche’s “Death of God”. Finally, attention will be paid to the necessity of integrating into our everyday life the thinking about truth and Being’s meaning for us.
El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar por qué y cómo las Humanidades -en particular, la Filosofía- aún pueden desempeñar un papel relevante a la hora de entender los problemas existenciales y los retos ontológicos suscitados por la sociedad moderna. Tomando como punto de partida la filosofía de Martin Heidegger, este texto se centrará en el análisis del rol que la tecnología juega en la vida del ser humano moderno, así como en la importancia de lo Sagrado y del Ser en una sociedad occidental ensombrecida por la “muerte de Dios” proclamada por Nietzsche. Por último, se prestará atención a la necesidad de desarrollar un pensar activo en nuestra vida cotidiana acerca de la verdad y del sentido que el Ser tiene para nosotros
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