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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
A key concept of water resource management : Critical study of ecological continuity of rivers
No full textConcept introduit dans la Loi sur l’Eau et les Milieux Aquatiques en 2006, la continuité écologique d’un cours d’eau (CECE) est considérée comme un moyen d’atteindre le (très) bon état écologique des masses d’eau dans le cadre de la mise en oeuvre de la Directive-Cadre sur l’Eau. Depuis les années 2010, les projets de restauration de la continuité écologique sont entrepris sur des cours d’eau en France. Certains font l’objet de vives oppositions venant ralentir, voire empêcher sa réalisation. La thèse analyse les origines socio-politiques de ce concept et de la politique publique de CECE afin de rechercher dans le passé des éléments explicatifs des difficultés de son application au présent. Elle cherche ainsi à savoir comment les élaborations du concept et de la politique publique de CECE ont cadré, par des mélanges de sciences et politiques, une manière particulière de produire une continuité sur les cours d’eau, laquelle est discutée et contestée par des acteurs dans le but de l’infléchir.Dans une première partie, nous proposons un récit de son élaboration durant la Directive-Cadre sur l’Eau, la Loi sur l’Eau et les Milieux Aquatiques et le Grenelle de l’Environnement n°1. Plusieurs traductions européennes et françaises sont présentées pour comprendre l’évolution de sa définition et de son cadrage. Dans un deuxième temps, nous menons une analyse des discours, utilisée pour rendre compte des diverses manières de présenter et d’interpréter ce concept. En proposant un examen de la controverse entre des acteurs à l’échelle nationale, nous faisons de premières propositions pour expliquer la conflictualité de ce concept. Par la suite, nous étudions la mise en oeuvre de la CECE sur plusieurs cours d’eau appartenant à deux bassins versants français (la Dordogne et la Têt) afin d’étudier les causes de désaccord entre les acteurs de terrain qui portent sur différents savoirs, valeurs, expertises et entités mobilisées pour composer ce projet de cours d’eau.Enfin, à la lumière des résultats de l’analyse, nous étudions ce que pourraient être les caractéristiques d’une CECE, davantage territorialisée et connectée aux attentes des acteurs locaux.The restoration of European rivers has been aligned with the Water Framework Directive, which promotes the concept of river continuity.This con cept was codified in French law in 2006, whereby it was termed "ecological continuity of rivers" and defined as the free movement of living organisms and the efficient transfer of natural sediments. Since the 2012 , the ecological continuity of rivers has been one of the most significant policy developments affecting rivers in the country. However, efforts to restore or establish ecological continuity have been met with problems, including the opposition of local residents, which have given rise to disagreements. In an effort to better understand these oppositions, this dissertation traces the socio-political origins of ecological continuity of rivers. We analyse how the construction of the concept and the development and implementation of the policy of the ecological continuity combined science and politics. After providing an analyzis of the history of the concept and the policy, we describe its various translations (European and French) in order to detail the evolution of scientific and political entanglements that have resulted in its application to French territory . The thesis adopts an approach that borrows from discursive analysis to explain different ways to interpret the ecological continuity of rivers through science (knowledge, expertises) and politics (entities , values ).The final part provides a fine-grainedanalysis of how public policy implements the removal or alteration of hydraulic workson rivers so as to realize ecological continuityin two French watersheds.The aim is to better understand the main reasonsof disagreementsand conflicts.Flowing from thecritical analysisof thesedifficulties, wepropose a conceptual tool to tackle main challenges involved implementing of ecological continuity and produce what we describe as a "territorial connectivity of rivers"
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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