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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
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
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
Genealogy Through the Decolonial Turn: Cultivating Critical Attitudes
Full text linkThis thesis offers a reconsideration of the contentious relationship between Michel Foucault and postcolonial thought through the decolonial turn, by interpreting critique as attitude. The discussion of continuity in Foucault’s work on subjectivity, between his genealogical and ethical periods, leads to an understanding of critical attitude as a mode of critique and self-critique that depends on genealogy as a method of historical inquiry. Meanwhile, the shift away from European modes of rationality described by the decolonial turn in philosophy, proposes an approach to social transformation and the dismantling of Eurocentrism through understanding critique as operative in terms of the decolonial attitude. A comparison of these two attitudes as modes of critique provides common ground for the recognition of their mutual compatibility as techniques for reinterpreting history that also work in the service of contending with coloniality
Reparative Critique in Jamesian Pragmatism, Foucauldian Genealogy, and Contemporary Political Philosophy
Full text linkMy dissertation develops and defends a concept of reparative critique that presses critical philosophy beyond its affinities with negative judgment. In the wake of Post-Kantian philosophy, critique has become associated with the work of negative judgment that aims to denounce or condemn some object or position. Unlike forms of negative critique, which are guided by affects of suspicion and paranoia, reparative critique is informed by a range of affects like hope, care, and concern that highlight the transformative dimension of critical inquiry. I advance the argument of the dissertation toward two main aims. In Part One, I defend and flesh out the practice of reparative critique by turning to the work of two figures from the history of philosophy: William James and Michel Foucault. These figures are exemplary, I argue, for the way they engage critique as a reparative exercise. In the introduction I situate these thinkers’ contributions to critique by way of the signal and originating work on philosophical critique by Immanuel Kant. In spite of their differing philosophical backgrounds and concerns, James and Foucault offer varieties of reparative critique that cohere along the conceptual lines of action, affect, and transformation. I reinterpret Foucault’s genealogy and James’s pragmatism in two separate chapters to develop the agential, affective, and transformative dimensions of reparative critique.
In Part Two of the dissertation, I draw on the historical precedents supplied by James and Foucault to put reparative critique to work for contemporary political philosophy. In the first of these chapters, I use the frame of recent debates over the status of ideal theory in political philosophy and argue that reparative political critique must be realist, rather than idealist, in orientation. I then deploy this realist method of reparative critique in the chapters that follow to analyze the problem of racial bias and discrimination posed by the operation of power in digital technologies like predictive policing algorithms
Channelizing the Stream of Consciousness: A Pragmatist Approach to Data Technology, the Self, and the Interpersonal
No full text36 pages.In this thesis, I develop a pragmatist philosophical framework for understanding how data technology mediates self-conception, habit formation, and interpersonal relationships. Drawing primarily on William James’s philosophy of consciousness, experience, and habit, I argue that data technology mediates what James calls the “stream of consciousness” through algorithmic channels that shape patterns of attention and behavior. Through this framework, I understand digital experiences as a genuine part of “real life,” as we experience them in relation to our thoughts, attention, habits, and identity as we do other objects and contexts. My argument borrows the concept of “channelization” from river engineering in order to understand how our interactions with data technologies structure consciousness. This approach synthesizes James’s process-based understanding of the self with contemporary theories of affordances, allowing for a context-specific method of analysis that avoids technological determinism and abstract normative claims, while prioritizing Pragmatist philosophical principles of meliorism, interdependence, fallibilism, and observing practical consequences. Through this lens, I employ a four-step analytical process through which I identify emerging consequences of a particular data technology (particularly Large Language Models), examine the affordances of the technology, analyze the effect of these affordances on the consciousness and self, and evaluate the sacrifices made amid competing priorities. My analysis shows how LLMs mediate selfhood at the level of individual consciousness. I demonstrate how algorithmic sycophancy cultivates unhealthy patterns of external validation- and comfort-seeking, how cognitive offloading weakens mental habits essential to identity formation, and how the displacement of human conversation undermines the interpersonal contexts required for both empathy and introspection. Using the framework of channelization, I determine that these technologies prioritize efficiency, certainty, and engagement at the cost of cognitive struggle and development, tolerance of uncertainty, and the capacity for genuine self-transformation. This thesis contributes to philosophy of technology by providing a naturalistic account of algorithmic mediation grounded in Jamesian pragmatism that complements existing social, political, and ethical analysis. Through my focus on the individual and experience, I demonstrate that the large-scale cultural impacts of data technology can only be understood by addressing their effects on individual consciousness and habit. I conclude that addressing the harms of algorithmic mediation requires an active turn towards uncertainty, struggle, and face-to-face conversation, and a de-prioritization of efficiency, in order to avoid the smoothing-over of the experiences that enable self-transformation and connection
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