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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
The parable film in the offices of « educational cinema » in France between interwar years : history of a propaganda cinema and study of a film genre
No full textCette étude explique pourquoi et comment le monde de l’éducation populaire laïque favorisa l’émergence d’un genre de film, appelé « film-parabole », dans le cadre d’un cinéma de propagande en France dans l’entre-deux-guerres. En concurrence avec les œuvres du patronat et de l’Église, les instituteurs de l’école laïque encadraient les loisirs des familles ouvrières ou paysannes au sein d’associations fédérées par la Ligue de l’enseignement. Des Offices du « cinéma éducateur » avaient constitué un vaste réseau qui faisait la propagande de la culture française et des idées politiques du Cartel des gauches, puis du Front populaire [Partie I]. Selon leurs visées récréatives et éducatives, ces Offices privilégièrent des longs-métrages de non-fiction, des films à la fois narratifs et argumentatifs, tels qu’ils étaient réalisés par Jean Benoit-Lévy. Ces « films-paraboles » sont étudiés selo! n une méthode d’analyse qui ouvre des perspectives théoriques concernant l’étude des genres [Partie II]. En définitive, ce travail de recherche consiste à mener de manière complémentaire histoire du « cinéma éducateur » et étude du genre « film-parabole », afin d’étudier comment un contexte socioculturel [le cinéma d’éducation populaire laïque] et un mode de production de sens [la parabole] sont articulés à des fins de propagandeThis study explains why and how the popular State Education contributed to the emergence of a genre, called “parable film”, within the context of a propaganda cinema in France between the interwar years. Competing with the charities of the Employers and of the Church, the teachers of the State Education took in hand the leisure of the working-class and farming-class families within associations federated by the Ligue de l’enseignement. Offices of the “educational cinema” constituted a vast network which did the propaganda of French culture and of the political ideas of the Cartel des gauches, and then of the Popular Front [part I]. With their entertaining and educational aims, these offices favoured narrative and argumentative non-fiction feature films, such as those directed by Jean Benoit-Lévy. Those “parable films” are studied according to a method of analysis which offers theoretical viewpoints on the study of the genres [! part II]. Eventually, this work consists in leading in a complementary way history of “educational cinema” and the study of the “parable film” genre in order to consider how a sociocultural context popular State Education cinema and a mode of production of meaning the parable are linked with propaganda aim
Les Offices du cinéma éducateur et l’émergence du parlant : l’exemple de l’Office de Nancy
Full text linkQuelle fut la politique des Offices du cinéma scolaire et éducateur durant la période de généralisation du cinéma parlant ? Une première présentation du dispositif de l’Union française des offices du cinéma éducateur laïque permet de décrire les usages du cinéma par les instituteurs, soit dans leurs enseignements (le cinéma scolaire), soit dans l’éducation des adolescents et des adultes (le cinéma éducateur). Puis une étude de l’Office régional d’enseignement cinématographique de Nancy, à partir de ses documents administratifs, révèle un office nettement plus favorable à l’intégration du parlant que l’Office de Saint-Étienne. Finalement il est proposé de nuancer l’idée selon laquelle les animateurs des Offices ont peiné à adopter le cinéma parlant.What were the policies of the regional Educational Film Offices during the period when sound cinema became widespread? To answer this question, we first present the workings of the French Union of non-religious education film offices. This helps us to describe the uses that primary school teachers made of cinema, either in their teaching practice (cinema for schools)or in the education of teenagers and adults (educational cinema). Secondly, based on a study of administrative documents, we analyse the example of the regional Educational Film Office in Nancy, and we show that this office was much more favourable to the integration of sound than its counterpart in Saint-Étienne. In conclusion we propose that a more nuanced idea of the supposedly recalcitrant attitudes of the Educational Film Offices is thus required
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