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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
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
Ein [grenzüberschreitendes] Entscheidungsschlacht gegen Atomkraftwerke':Die grüne Wahlkampagne(n) für das europäische Parlament in Westdeutschland und Frankreich in 1979
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
La peur comme moteur de l’action politique
No full textPublié en 1962, Printemps silencieux est considéré comme l’un des déclencheurs de la révolution verte aux États-Unis. Dans cet ouvrage, la biologiste américaine Rachel Carson met en garde ses contemporain.e.s contre l’empoisonnement de la nature et des êtres vivants en raison de l’utilisation massive de pesticides, parmi lesquels le DDT. Prenant la forme d’une fable scientifique, son plaidoyer en faveur d’un changement nécessaire des modes de pensée et d’action a suscité de vives réactions de la part d’hommes politiques conservateurs, de scientifiques et d’industriels, qui l’ont accusée d’hystérie catastrophiste et d’ignorance (féminine), y opposant les promesses du progrès scientifique et technique. Cet article s’intéresse aux discours et contre-discours sur le DDT dans l’après-guerre et questionne leur radicalité à l’aune du concept de catastrophisme. L’étude d’une série d’articles publiés dans l’hebdomadaire ouest-allemand Der Spiegel dans les années 1960 montre l’émotionalisation du débat sur les questions environnementales et sanitaires tout en révélant les stratifications multiples et la transnationalité de la peur pendant la Guerre froide.In ihrem 1962 erschienenen Buch Der stumme Frühling, das als Zünder der US-amerikanischen grünen Bewegung gilt, warnt die Biologin Rachel Carson ihre Mitmenschen vor der Vergiftung der Natur und des Menschen durch den massiven Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln, an erster Stelle des Insektizids DDT. Carsons Plädoyer für einen notwendigen Wandel der Denk- und Handlungsweisen, das sie in eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Fabel einfügt, rief heftige Kritik bei konservativen Politikern, Wissenschaftlern und Industriellen hervor, die ihr hysterische Panikmache und (weibliches) Unwissen vorhielten und den technischen und wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt hochpriesen. Dieser Artikel konfrontiert die Diskurse, Motive und Strategien beider Seiten und hinterfragt ihre gesellschaftliche Anschlussfähigkeit bzw. Radikalität anhand des Katastrophismus-Begriffs. Das Heranziehen von ausgewählten Spiegel-Artikeln der 1960er Jahre zeigt die emotionale Aufladung der Debatten über Umwelt- und Gesundheitsprobleme und gibt Einblicke in die transnationale Dynamik und Vielschichtigkeit des Angstdiskurses im Kalten Krieg.Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) is regarded as having triggered the green movement in the USA. Carson warns against the massive use of pesticide, among which the insecticide DDT, that leads to poisoning of nature and living beings. Her plea for change in the way we think and act takes the form of a scientifically-based tale. It sparked fierce criticism from conservative politicians, scientists and industrialists, who accused her of hysterical panic-mongering and (female) ignorance while simultaneously praising technical and scientific progress. This article studies the discourses, motives and strategies of both sides and questions their radicalism through the prism of the concept of catastrophism. The comparison with selected Spiegel articles from the 1960s stresses the emotionalization of the debates on environmental and health problems while providing insights into the transnational dynamics and complex stratifications of fear during Cold War
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