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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

    The Long-run Relationship Between Renewable Electricity Consumption and GDP: Evidence From Panel Data

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    The article examines whether a long-run relationship between per capita renewable electricity consumption and gross domestic product (GDP) exists employing panel integration and cointegration techniques for a dynamic heterogeneous panel of 19 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries over the period 1980-2008. Our findings support the existence of a long-run equilibrium relation between renewable electricity consumption and GDP. Further, the evidence points to unidirectional causality from a GDP to renewable electricity consumption

    Is Per Capita Electricity Consumption Non-stationary? A Long-span Study for Turkey

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    This article examines the stationary properties of per capita electricity consumption in which the endogenously determined break points are incorporated in Turkey by using annual data over 1923-2008. We utilize a Lagrange multiplier unit root test that endogenously determines structural breaks in level and/or trend. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence that per capita electricity consumption is stationary
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