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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
Legitimate Authority, Following Orders, and Wars of Questionable Justice
Full text linkIn this article, the author discusses philosophy teacher David Estlund\u27s belief that subjects of a state with a morally justified claim to political authority have a duty to obey its legal commands to wage a particular war, even if they believe that the state has made a mistake in its reasons for waging the war. The author argues that Estlund\u27s theory also allows for individuals to assess the justice of the wars they fight. He also argues that Estlund\u27s view also holds that individual combatants should not be held accountable for any injustice of a war that the state believes is morally permissible to fight
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Volume I: Time, Memory and Multiplicity: Exploring the Influence of Marcel Proust's Narrative Language on the Musical Language of Henri Dutilleux and Volume 2: 300,000 Starlings Swarm Over Denmark
Full text linkHenri Dutilleux's compositional language can be broadly divided into two categories: into a group of dynamic metamorphic techniques and processes the composer combined under the rubric of processes of progressive growth, and into different types of static and recurring pitch structures that have become known as referential devices. This dissertation explores the way author Marcel Proust's unique approach to the interconnected phenomena of time and memory in the novel À la recherche du temps perdu influenced Dutilleux's approach to those phenomena in his works, and how that influence manifests in the processes of progressive growth, processes which result in a manipulation of the musical object that reflects Proust's treatment of human character as comprised of multitudes; non-linear formal types, like multiply-directed time and moment form, that replicate Proust's non-chronologic approach to narrative sequencing; the formation of dense associative memory networks that are similar to those created in À la recherche du temps perdu by Proust's expansive use of metaphor and foreshadowing. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts that will be discussed, provides biographical sketches of Marcel Proust and Henri Dutilleux, and describes the dissertation's scope and methodology; Chapter 2 surveys Marcel Proust's narrative techniques, focusing on those techniques which affect time, memory and the concept of multiplicity; Chapter 3 surveys the compositional techniques that characterize Dutilleux's processes of progressive growth; Chapter 4 provides representative examples of the processes of progressive growth from Dutilleux's string quartet Ainsi la nuit; Chapter 5 compares Proust's narrative techniques and Dutilleux's processes of progressive growth, showing how Proust's narrative language manifests in the temporally disjunct formal types, associative networks and multiple perspectives of objects and sound events that characterize Ainsi la nuit; Chapter 6 surveys the different types of referential devices, juxtaposing them with the processes of progressive growth, and discussing their role in providing a structural framework; Chapter 7 explores gray areas—musical objects and sound events that simultaneously express the dynamic characteristics of progressive growth and the static characteristics of referential devices. 300,000 Starlings Swarm Over Denmark (2019) is an original work for chamber ensemble by David Gerhard Utzinger. The work is overtly pictorial; its aim is to abstractly evoke the beauty, dynamic formal metamorphoses, and complex swirling movements that are created by the massive flocks of starlings known as murmurations. Like Dutilleux's Ainsi la nuit, this work makes use of temporally disjunct formal types. Specifically, it is comprised of the type of multiple and interrupted linear streams of music that define multiply-directed time. At times, portions of the various linear streams occur in succession—that is, they are cut into delimited units and rearranged. At other times they occur simultaneously, each stream progressing independently and at a discrete rate, while interacting with the other concurrent streams. Additionally, 300,000 Starlings Swarm Over Denmark juxtaposes its dynamic and continually transforming sections with highly recognizable and static "chorale" sections, which occur at various points in the work. With this juxtaposition, the work replicates the similar juxtaposition created by Dutilleux's processes of progressive growth and his referential devices. 300,000 Starlings Swarm Over Denmark is a multi-sectional, and multi-temporal, single movement work. Performance time is approximately 13-15 minutes
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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