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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
On the Edge of the Margins: Female Independent Documentary Filmmakers in Contemporary Mainland China
No full textThe independent documentary film industry in contemporary mainland China has
experienced dramatic changes over the past two decades, reflecting the rapid
economic development and social transformations taking place in the People’s
Republic. Established filmmakers, mainly male, trying to activate the local film
market, and building reputations internationally, have been the main focus of studies
relating to Chinese independent documentary cinema. Women filmmakers – who
bring new dimensions to both film production and aesthetics – have been little studied
in comparison to their male counterparts. These women must make concessions to the
double pressures of mainstream ideology and a hidden culture of male chauvinism.
This has seldom been discussed or even mentioned by researchers.
This research explores the experiences and strategies of woman independent
documentary filmmakers, including their response to having their work viewed
through the prism of gender, in an industry that is dramatically changing, though still
subject to social, political and economic constraints. This research comprises archival
video-documentation and a written dissertation. The former consists of a series of six
interviews with female independent documentary filmmakers that is presented on
DVD; the latter provides a broader historical context and explores detailed case
studies based on the transcribed interviews.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
RidgiDidge: A Grounded Theory of New Media and Young People
No full textThe RidgiDidge Study is a qualitative longitudinal project that uses grounded theory methodology to determine how new media technology figures in the recreational lives of a group of Australian High School students. The participants
completed a 7-day media diary, a questionnaire and participated in an individual semi-structured interview at three research stages over a three term period.
The research objective of the RidgiDidge Study is the generation of a middle range substantive grounded theory that describes how new media technology figures in the lives of Australian High school students. This type of theory applies to, and is drawn from, a clearly delineated research context and goes beyond the simple description of social phenomena to occupy the ground between basic empiricism and grand theory. The emergent theory in the RidgiDidge Study will contribute to a growing body of Australian research that calls for an intergenerational and non-judgemental understanding of young people's media technology consumption. Similarly, given that technical change has the capacity to impact on public conceptions of youth and childhood, a
critical view of research on media technology consumption and young people also suggests the need to develop methodologies that account for the complexity of young people's relationship to new media technology.
The results of the RidgiDidge Study indicate that new media technologies such as the games system, the internet and the mobile phone are catalysts and facilitators of social praxis, highlighting the participants' agency in ways not necessarily predicted by adults or commercially provided culture. This conceptual perspective readily accounts for changes in young people's use of
technology over time. The results also indicate that new media technologies are used by the participants' to make and maintain social connections to friends and family for the purposes of maintaining a positive standard of living where social relationships are privileged over the consumption of technology for its own sake. In this way, young people mobilise agency to positively negotiate the duality of the structures in their lives that simultaneously constrain and enable their new media technology use.
This grounded theory challenges the current negative mythology about young people that portrays them as passive media consumers, apathetic community members, deviant or too dependent on technology and susceptible to a range of social and health problems. At issue with this negative conception of childhood
is that such a description leads to a prescription for what and how youth and childhood should be. The theory generated from the RidgiDidge Study shows that new media technology is a comparatively small, positive and integral part of the social world of the participants. Research of this type has implications for
future research where the recognition of a positive conception of youth and childhood in the face of a rapidly changing technological milieu has the capacity to develop a greater non-judgemental and inter-generational understanding of young people.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Arts, Media and CultureArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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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