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AHC interview with Ruth B. Mandel
No full textMay 31, 2012Ruth B. Mandel was born Ruth Blumenstock in Vienna, Austria.Austrian Heritage CollectionRuth B. Mandel is the author of the book 'Jewish women in politics'.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Melitta Anderman
No full textJuly 18, 2012Digital recordingMelitta Anderman, née Feuer, was born Dec. 13, 1929 into a well-to-do family in Vienna, Austria. The family lived in a spacious apartment in Biberstrasse 10 in the first district of Vienna. In March 1939 Melitta and her parents immigrated to the USA. There, they lived in a small apartment in the Bronx. Melitta worked as a secretary and later married a pharmacist, settling eventually in Manhattan.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Walter Kuehne
No full textThroughout the interview, Walter Kuehne speaks with a pronounced Viennese accent. Towards the end, his wife intervenes.September 23, 2011Walter Kuehne was born on April 1st, 1922 in Vienna. He lived in the 17th district at Kalvarienbergstrasse 12, until he tried to escape from the Nazis. He was arrested in Belgium and thereupon spent four years in prison in Germany. After the liberation Walter Kuehne went to Paris where he met his future wife. Unable to obtain visas for the US, he and his wife decided to emigrate to Columbia, where he worked for Avianca Airlines in Bogota, before finally immigrating to the United States. Walter Kuehne and his wife settled in Miami, Florida.Digital recordingWienerisch, Maschinenbau, Avianca airlin
AHC interview with Henry Schmelzer
No full textFebruary 29, 2012Henry Schmelzer was born March 28, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, where he went to school until 1938, when he left Austria with the help of Kindertransport to Dovercourt, England. Henry Schmelzer attended Whittingehame Farm School until 1941, when he joined the British Army, serving for two years. He studied at London School of Economics until 1951.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
AHC interview with Hermine M. Kreinces-Kovacs
No full textSeptember 22, 2011Hermine Kreinces-Kovacs née Rauch was born March 25, 1914 in Vienna, Austria, where she was raised on Engels-Platz in a single parent home, her father never had been living with her family. She worked as a designer for Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur in Vienna. After having tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to Switzerland, Hermine Rauch managed to go to England in 1938, were she worked as a designer. She kept on working as a designer in the US as well, which she reached in 1948. Hermine Kreinces-Kovacs lived in Brooklyn until her employer relocated to Florida in 1963.Digital recordin
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
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
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
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