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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
Cai Qian Pirate Invasion and the Changes in the Tainan Prefecture Society during the Jiaqing Period of the Qing
No full text清嘉慶年間，臺灣府城的文武要員面對前所未有、從海洋來襲的海盜蔡牽集團侵擾時，積極動員位居城外西側海岸、以商業貿易為主之區域的人力、船隻以及資金，來協助府城的防衛。雖然因為商貿而富裕、卻因位處城外而長期被城內官紳視為身份低下的海口郊民們，藉趁著軍事緊急說服官府，讓他們在很短的時間內修築了一座木城，使得原處城外海口空間得以在形式上納入新的大府城範圍之內。這不只是清代府城空間概念的一次大轉變，也是原本的海口以及新的府城社會整合的開始。影響深遠的還有，郊商面對外在軍事威脅以及築城時的社會動員與經費攤派，在事件平定之後成為社會慣習，這強化了「三郊」的社會整合以及經濟力量。For civil and military officials in Tainan Prefecture, the Jiaqing period of the Qing was unusual. In response to the invasion of Tainan by Cai Qian pirate gang, these officials mobilized manpower, vessels, and funds from Tainan, especially from the wealthy guild merchants inhabited along the coast outside the west side of Tainan city wall. Although these guild merchants had accumulated considerable wealth, their economic strength did not accord with their social status as they were despised by the officials and gentry in the Tainan city. Cai Qian’s invasion created an excellent opportunity for these guild merchants to become city dwellers. In order to defend the pirates, with the official permission, they expanded the city wall to enclose their habitations. This expansion of city area signified a conceptual change in space—the scope of walled area of Tainan prefecture, and also suggested the re-delimitation between the walled and coastal area of Tainan. In addition, these guild merchants’ economic strength increased and thus they became more powerful in the process of social integration after Cai Qian’s invasion. This is because these guild merchants had the legitimacy to mobilize resources from the local society in response to the threat imposed by the pirates, and this practice persisted even after Cai’s invasion. Hence, these guild merchants were empowered
Sketching the Images of "Hakka" People from Local Gazetteers in Early Qing Taiwan
No full text清初臺灣方志的「客家」文本，長期以來一直被學者們視為「講客家話的客家人」之歷史，並據以重建清代臺灣的客籍源流、漢人祖籍分布以及拓墾社會。然而，由於方志一再賦予清初臺灣「客家」極其負面的形象，並宣稱他們主要來自於操潮州話(接近閩南話的方言)的潮州地區，這使得我們必須反省以往閱讀方志的方法，重新注意方志的作者及其意圖。筆者基本上認為：在研究方法或策略上，與其把清初臺灣方志的「客家」書寫看成是一張「客家人的照片」，來觀察客家的面貌；倒不如將之視為一面「鏡子」，藉以照射清初臺灣的社會相。"Hakka" texts in Taiwan's local gazetteers in the early Qing have long been regarded as the source of constructing the history of the people who speak Hakka. Moreover, scholars frequently use them as a means to trace the historical origins, to analyze the population distribution, and to construct the history of the land that the Hakka people reclaimed. However, the local gazetteers had repeatedly provided a strongly negative impression over the images of the Hakka people, and proclaimed that they originated from the Chao-zhou region, speaking the Chao-zhou dialect (close to Minnan dialect). That leads us to rethink the previous methods of reading the gazetteers, and to re-focus on the backgrounds of the authors and their intentions. This paper argues that instead of viewing these Hakka-related texts from local gazetteer as the photo-similar images, it is more appropriate to view them as a "mirror" which reflects the social dimensions of early Qing Taiwan
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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