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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
The Jewish Contribution to Lithuanian Independence 1918/1919
No full textHistorians have already shown how the Jewish minority contributed to the rebirth of the Lithuanian state in 1918. The beginning of the experiment to integrate the Jewish minority into the reemergent Lithuanian state, however, has often been told from the perspective of failure only. The article challenges this view, by describing how Zionism, the Jewish national movement, supported the emergence of the Lithuanian state. The author analyses how the Jews supported the newly created Lithuanian government by voting to send representatives to it, and by producing a document that improved the international position of the Lithuanian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, and which was helpful for the international recognition of the young state
Students as actors of cultural communication. Königsberg University and Polish students in it (1770-1825)
No full textKaraliaučiaus universiteto studentų sudėtis XVIII-XIX a. sandūroje pasikeitė. Po Trečiojo Lietuvos Lenkijos valstybės padalijimo (1795 m.) lenkų studentų skaičius šoktelėjo, tačiau įkūrus Varšuvos hercogystę iš karto vėl sumažėjo. Užsienyje studijavę lenkų studentai tapo garsiais kultūros ir mokslo veikėjais. Šie veikėjai paskatino kultūros ir mokslo centrų bei jų tinklo Europoje kūrimą. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Karaliaučius; Komunikacija; Lenkai; Studentai; Universitetas; Communication; Konigsberg; Poles; Students; UniversityWhat was the university environment in the eastern Baltic Region in the second half of the 18th с and on the turn on the 19th c? How did the students of Albertina University in Königsberg change in the early 19th c? On the basis of the student environment, the article investigates the reasons of choice of the place of study in the eastern Baltic Region at the turn on the 19th с. Second, in accordance with the statistical data, the author seeks to disclose the significance of Königsberg University for students from Warsaw, and particularly in the period of 1795-1806. Third, the practice of students becoming significant actors of cultural communication at that time is summarized. After the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the University of Königsberg was one of the academic educational instutions in the eastern Baltic Sea Region and, before the end of the 18th c, its activity covered a large area. Students from Prussia, Pommerania, Silesia, Courland, Livonia, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia came to study in it. The situation changed in the 19th c, after the education reform in the Russian Empire had been implemented, as, with the universities of Dorpat (Tartu), Vilnius, Wroclaw, and Warsaw having started to function, the area of students coming to the University of Königsberg significantly shrank. The University of Königsberg became an internal university of Prussia: quite a few German and Russian professors who after the Seven Years' War had settled down in Königsberg soon moved to Dorpat, and a smaller number of them got established in Berlin University. In the early 19th c , a substantial shift of the centres of university areas in the Baltic Region could be observed. University studies in Europe, and in particular in the eastern part of Central Europe, at the dawn of the industrial revolution turned into a special project. Students' motives in the choice of the place of study, depending on circumstances, were different. They included the reputation of the university or its specialists; traditional relationships with certain educational institutions, linguistic or national interests; the financial aspect, or scholarships, and, starting with 1850, in some cases, the infrastuctural opportunities, e.g., railway lines. The number of students from Poland in Königsberg was not large. 21 students who arrived in 1804 made the largest group, and the dropping of their number was caused by Napoleon's Army entrance to Königsberg and the foundation of the Duchy of Warsaw at the beginning of July 1807. In 1816, a university was founded in Warsaw; however, it should be noted that Polish students further went to Königsberg after 1816: they mainly took special or additional courses there and continued studies in Königsberg after the University of Warsaw had been closed after 1831. Those who had studied abroad and later used their experience and relationships for work in the native land became important actors in the cultural and scientific fields. The travelling students had acquired substantial cultural capital. They directly adopted the experience from the fields of science and culture or transformed it by adapting to the environment. Those were complex and dynamic processes within which continuous multilayer encoding of personal and collective identity was taking place. The said phenomena of communication were social processes inspired by personal motivation and structural circumstances. [...
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
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