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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
La métatextualité du fantastique obvie nord-américain de l'extrême contemporain (la représentation littéraire de l'écrivain et de son double dans les romans de Stephen King et Patrick Sénécal)
No full textÀ partir de l étude de la représentation de l écrivain fictif et son double dans deux textes de l auteur états-unien Stephen King, le roman The Dark Half et la novella Secret Window, Secret Garden , et dans deux romans de l auteur québécois Patrick Senécal, Sur le seuil et Aliss, nous nous interrogeons sur la possible métatextualité du fantastique obvie nord-américain de l extrême contemporain. Par un recours à différentes méthodes d analyse et d interprétation du récit, nous montrons que, dans les œuvres de notre corpus, ces deux auteurs de fantastique dit populaire emploient les mêmes outils stylistiques que les auteurs de littérature générale procédés d autoreprésentation, références intertextuelles, transgression des niveaux narratifs ou encore mise en relief de la fictionalité du texte. Par là, King et Senécal mènent à leur tour une réflexion sur l écrivain, le processus créatif et le genre fantastique, sans pour autant renoncer à la monstration caractéristique du fantastique obvie. Ainsi, bien que les critiques opèrent généralement une césure entre un fantastique populaire et un fantastique littéraire, la frontière entre chaque catégorie est moins fermée qu il n y paraît. Notre étude montre en effet qu un fort niveau de monstration n exclut pas nécessairement une forte métatextualité. De plus, l insistance sur la fictionalité du récit consécutive à la réflexion métalittéraire ne détruisant en rien l effet fantastique, nous soutenons que, contrairement à la monstration, la métatextualité est constitutive du genre fantastique.Through a study of the representation of the fictitious writer and his doppelganger in two works of fiction by the U.S. author Stephen King, the novel The Dark Half and the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, and in two novels by the Quebec author Patrick Senécal, Sur le seuil and Aliss, I examine the possible metafictionality of contemporary North-American horror fiction. Drawing upon methods in literary analysis and textual interpretation, I show that, in these four texts, these two horror fiction authors use the same writing techniques as mainstream authors do autorepresentation, intertextual references, transgression of narrative levels, and highlighting of a text s fictionality. Thus, King and Senécal conduct a literary reflection on the artistic identity of the writer, on writing, and on the genre itself, without abandoning the horrific descriptions which characterize horror fiction. Although critics do make a clear distinction between horror fiction and fantastic fiction, the line between them can sometimes be blurred. Indeed, my study points out that a strong level of horrific description does not necessarily exclude a strong level of metafiction. Moreover, since the emphasis on a text s fictionality resulting from the metafictional reflection does not ruin the fantastic effect, I argue that, unlike horrific descriptions, which are limited to horror fiction, metafictionality is inherent to the fantastic genre as a whole.PARIS3-BU (751052102) / SudocSudocFranceF
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
Aliénation et altérité : la construction identitaire dans Aliss de Patrick Senécal
Get PDFLe roman Aliss de l’auteur québécois Patrick Senécal décrit le processus par lequel un personnage hors de tout stéréotype social se construit une altérité subjective, tout en niant une altérité objective à laquelle il s’aliène. En inscrivant son texte dans le genre fantastique et par un jeu entre deux groupes de référence, Senécal montre que, si l’altérité relève bien d’une construction idéologique, elle s’avère nécessaire à la constitution d’une identité. De plus, même subjective, l’altérité peut conduire le sujet à une aliénation aussi totale que celle suscitée par une altérité objective. Abstract Quebec writer Patrick Senécal’s novel,Aliss,depicts the subjective alterity towards a normative group constructed by a character standing apart from all social stereotypes, while denying an objective alterity towards a second group. Through this play between two normative groups and resorting to fantastic fiction techniques, Senécal signifies that if alterity is indeed an ideological figure, it is necessary to create one’s identity. Moreover, even a subjectively constructed feeling of alterity can lead a subject to an alienationas totalas the one caused by an objective alterity
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
Le métadiscours du fantastique ou comment écrire après la théorie du genre
Get PDFLa littérature fantastique ne cesse de partager les spécialistes, créant une tradition de réflexion théorique dans laquelle les auteurs contemporains doivent trouver leur place. Nous nous intéressons dans cet article à deux auteurs nord-américains de fantastique horrifique qui ont inséré ces différents débats théoriques dans leur œuvre. L’étude des romans The Dark Half de Stephen King et Sur le seuil de Patrick Senécal nous permet de voir comment les métadiscours du fantastique et de l’écriture de l’horreur rappellent la pertinence des interrogations posées par Harold Bloom sur la gestion des influences littéraires et théoriques dans le processus créatif. Abstract Horror fiction has always divided scholars, creating a tradition of theoretical thinking in which contemporary authors have to find their place. In this paper, I will examine two horror novels by North American authors who inserted these different debates in their works. The study of Stephen King’s Dark Half and Patrick Senécal’s Sur le seuil will allow me to show how the metadiscourse of horror fiction and the metadiscourse of horror writing underline the accuracy of Harold Bloom’s questions on the management of literary and theoretical influences in the creative process
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
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