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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
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
Reinvesting coastal heath landscape
Get PDFThe heath landscape is an open coastal cultural heritage of Western Europe along the Atlantic coast. For over 4000 years, it has been both a distinctive agricultural type and an essential part of European development. Numerous traces of settlements testify that humans have used the landscape actively. The heather as a biotope resulted from centuries of deprivation of nutrients and was exploited to its limits. Nowadays, the Norwegian heath landscape is scarce, and it is going to disappear without a designer and locals' intervention. How should we maintain such a landscape of tomorrow? How do we approach the natural processes of overgrowing heather?
The project is situated at Bliksvær - an archipelago of approx. sixty islands located 15 km west of Bodø in Norway - operating as protected natural reservoir and a nationally valuable cultural heather landscape. Investigated coastal valley and the heather field on the main island are recognizable landscape entities on the Western coast of Norway. Therefore, Bliksvær, with its rare biotope, and aesthetics can be an example for other coastal heaths where high-quality food production may be the new purpose for management inlined with tourism.
The thesis aims to question the current conservation practices and implies that it is impossible to preserve the heather landscape in its totality at Bliksvær. Traditional farming does not fulfill farmers’ needs and aspirations, while modern producers pretend to be nostalgic historical actors living in paradoxes. The proposal strives for a genuine representation of a farmer to whom the heather landscape represents the landscape of labor. It welcomes both locals and new neo-rural operators to continue the management, directly impacting nature, the rural economy, and the lives of various animals.
Shifting focus from cultural landscape to cultural experience may allow farmers to stay on-site by embracing and reimaging the Nordic wilderness. Gastronomic movement contributes to managing and protecting the environment. The program introduces high-quality gastronomical landscapes – the spaces and linkages where food is produced and transformed by chefs and food innovators into sensory experiences and pleasurable eating, as a new way to rediscover the heathers and strengthen the local economy.
Finally, through the introduction of the landscape architecture toolbox, the project reveals cultural practices and sustains local knowledge while transforms the issue of overgrowing into a profitable autonomous ecosystem. Overgrown nature in the coastal valley becomes a new precedent - introduced as a constructed landscape with enhanced landscape entities. The thesis develops an agroforestry system that suggests an answer to the current problem of the overgrowing landscape in the valley. It suggests that instead of combating natural processes, the farmers should convert it into an efficient and self-sufficient agricultural system that strengthens the local biotope, supports annual crops to grow in more significant amounts, and ultimately improves the soil quality; an initiator for further development.
In time, landscape architect as an accelerator, the farmer and ecologist can reconstruct intended areas into a new design form, creating social spaces. In between, designed “landscape piazzas” are formed for people to engage with the new, multi-layered landscape. Some of them intend to collect run-off water used for irrigation or animals. They become a destination in the paths of the valley among fertile fields. The surrounding reservoir functions as a unique framework and place to explore.
The project includes facilities where guests may experience the site through their senses. A landscape architect initiates a heather garden where coastal heritage and new gastronomic culture meet. The structures are situated along the main path - a straight line defined by a bedrock uniting the productive valley with the heather garden. The shapes of the proposed architecture resemble turf removal excavation. The work of creating peats has left significant permanent traces in the coastal landscape. As a result of geometrical forms, the proposed architecture is based on the principle of the horizons - earth - infinite - sky horizon. Structures mean implementing local materials and objects on-site into their form, creating a humble, primitive architecture defined as a cave, hut, and platform. In order to increase the interaction between the heather and the encompassing sea, the project provides three additional smaller trails. They unite the heather garden with several sand beaches, which Bliksvær is known for. Travelers in all seasons may access the sea by boats, kayaks, or surfboards. - thus ending in another landscape entity.
The surrounding wild heather and the designed garden are put in contrast to highlight the impact of the traditional practices on nature. The garden becomes a contemporary living museum in its original context merged with the proposed architecture, available for people to interact with, while wild heather is left alone mainly for animals. The garden’s geometrical shapes are temporary, lasting from season to season. The grass functions as a white canvas in time of harvesting in the fall. Farmers and visitors may engage with it and experience the traditional techniques of heather preservation, leaving a temporary imprint in the form of land art. The project suggests two alternatives of the design.
A global shift is needed to ensure enough healthy and safe food for everyone, and at the same time, preserve our heritage. The project focuses on a local scale and reinvests the "forgotten" coast, but it strives to become a guide plan for a new sustainable coastal agricultural system in Norway on a larger scale. The designer's role is to enable these types of landscapes, anticipate climate change and facilitate the locals to shift to more sustainable and innovative farming systems; the urge is to transform these landscapes for more significant food autonomy on the islands and isolated places. Through a design, planning, and management plan, this project can be an answer for this issue; we need designers to help activate these areas.submittedVersio
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
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
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