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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
Protected villages and communal villages in the Mozambican province of Tete (1968-1982): a history of state resettlement policies, development and war
No full textMozambique’s Province of Tete offers, over the last century, a good example of the negative impact of state policies on local community development. Being a region historically deprived of significant investment; Tete became, since the early days of colonialism, an area where state and local community’s economy were in direct confrontation, without the mediation of state and private plantations or order undertakings. In this context, state policies sought to achieve two main goals: on the hand the establishment of mechanisms of political and administrative control over these communities: on the other to extract local produce and producers without transforming significantly the framework in which such communities assured the production and reproduction of their lives. The analysis of this impact undertaken below is based on the concept of rural settlement patterns, in which the village represents a central role. The two processes discussed correspond to two major state attempts to alter these patterns by extinguishing community villages and resettling the rural population in villages of a new kind. Though run by two distinct states, the colonial and the independent, it is argued that both processes followed a somewhat similar path: both ignored or took little account of local perspectives; both attempted, through villagisation, to achieve local political and administrative control; both failed to base this profound change on the transformation of slash and burn agriculture which had characterized community economy until then. While the colonial state did not even attempt such transformation, the independent one did not achieve it. The result was that an already fragile rural economy was deprived of vital factors such as, internally, land or customary organization of production, and externally, access to the international market which played a fundamental role in it since early this century. Consequently, the chronic state of war experienced by the region has to be viewed in close connection with the imbalance provoked by such experiences which, far from creating development conditions, pushed the local rural economy back to dangerous levels of subsistenceA Província de Tete em Moçambique ofereceu, ao longo do século passado, um bom exemplo do impacto negativo das políticas estaduais no desenvolvimento da comunidade local. Sendo uma região historicamente privada de investimentos significativos; Tete tornou-se, desde os primórdios do colonialismo, uma área onde a economia do Estado e da comunidade local estavam em confronto direto, sem a mediação de plantações estatais e privadas ou empreendimentos de ordem. Nesse contexto, as políticas estaduais buscaram atingir dois objetivos principais: de um lado, o estabelecimento de mecanismos de controle político e administrativo sobre essas comunidades; de outro, extrair produtos e produtores locais sem transformar significativamente o quadro em que tais comunidades asseguravam a produção e reprodução de suas vidas. A análise desse impacto empreendida a seguir é baseada no conceito de padrões de assentamento rural, em que a aldeia representa um papel central. Os dois processos discutidos correspondem a duas tentativas principais do estado de alterar esses padrões, extinguindo as aldeias comunitárias e reassentando a população rural em aldeias de um novo tipo. Embora administrados por dois Estados distintos, o colonial e o independente, argumenta-se que ambos os processos seguiram um caminho um tanto semelhante: ambos ignonaram ou deram pouca atenção às perspectivas locais; ambos tentaram, por meio da povoação, alcançar o controle político e administrativo local; ambos falharam em basear esta mudança profunda na transformação da agricultura de corte e queima que caracterizou a economia comunitária até então. Enquanto o estado colonial nem mesmo tentou tal transformação, o independente não a conseguiu. O resultado foi que uma já frágil economia rural foi privada de fatores vitais como, internamente, a terra ou a organização costumeira da produção e, externamente, o acesso ao mercado internacional que desempenhou um papel fundamental desde o início deste século. Consequentemente, o crônico estado de guerra vivido pela região deve ser visto em estreita relação com o desequilíbrio provocado por tais experiências que, longe de criarem condições de desenvolvimento, empurraram a economia rural local para níveis perigosos de subsistência
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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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