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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
“Nighthawks,” or “Urbanism as a Way of Life”: Edward Hopper’s Paint- ing and Louis Wirth’s Idea
No full textThe author juxtaposes the ideas contained in the classic essay “Urbanism as a Way of Life” (1938) by the Chicago sociologist Louis Wirth with the Americanism of the New York painter Edward Hopper (active approximately 1900–1967). She seeks parallels between the sociological description of urban conditions and the paintings of an artist who was called the illustrator of the American lifestyle. At the beginning, she discusses American spatial philosophy and the premises of urban researchers connected with the Chicago School. Then she compares a portion of Wirth’s essay and Hopper’s work in terms of their portrayal of the metropolitan lifestyle. She describes the sociologist’s and artist’s pessimistic visions of urbanism, in which urbanization produces the depersonalization of interpersonal relations, isolation, anomie, and the consequent loneliness of individuals
It looks so pretty in New York City. O Nowym Jorku (także) w kulturze
Full text linkIn the article New York is analysed as a city not in the terms of urbanism but culture.
The City became inspiring for many artists such as Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Janusz
Głowacki, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Woody Allen, Roman Polański etc. and also for a number
of social‑scientists
like Claude Lévy‑Strauss,
James Clifford or Jean Baudrillard. The author of the
essay tries to present different points of view of above quoted on the same area — New York and
especially Manhattan, and proves that it was described, painted, photographed or filmed so many
times that people round the world have their own mental image of it even if they have never been to
the USA. This image comes from high and pop culture, popular knowledge and scientific analysis.
In the essay both literary and scientific texts blend to show the way the image of New York City is
constructed and how it is displayed to the audience
Labirynt - od starożytności do ponowoczesności. Figura uniwersalna
Full text linkThe article constitutes an attempt at analyzing the figure of the labyrinth,
which has existed in the Western culture since antiquity until the present times.
The author follows the conception of the labyrinth based upon the assumption
that even in the oldest civilizations, the labyrinth was conceived of as more
than just a structure. Entering a labyrinth involved an inherent change in the
ontological situation of the external world, subjected to the complex process of
crossing the threshold. This architectural curiosity has continued to intrigue
scholars and artists across the ages, becoming at the same time a reflection of
the dominant intellectual, cultural and social trends at the time. The labyrinth,
then, emerges as a construct which describes the external world. According to
that assumption, in the second part of the article, the concept of the labyrinth
is used to describe the postmodern reality
„Nocni włóczędzy”, czyli „miejskość jako styl życia”. Malarstwo Edwarda Hoppera a koncepcja Louisa Wirtha
No full textThe author juxtaposes the ideas contained in the classic essay “Urbanism as a Way of Life” (1938) by the Chicago sociologist Louis Wirth with the Americanism of the New York painter Edward Hopper (active approximately 1900–1967). She seeks parallels between the sociological description of urban conditions and the paintings of an artist who was called the illustrator of the American lifestyle. At the beginning, she discusses American spatial philosophy and the premises of urban researchers connected with the Chicago School. Then she compares a portion of Wirth’s essay and Hopper’s work in terms of their portrayal of the metropolitan lifestyle. She describes the sociologist’s and artist’s pessimistic visions of urbanism, in which urbanization produces the depersonalization of interpersonal relations, isolation, anomie, and the consequent loneliness of individuals
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
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