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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
What is the relationship between the meanings 'pledge' and 'sacrifice' in the semantics of the root represented in κοῖον, κοιᾶται, etc.?
No full textA review of the Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon reveals the presence of two distinct groups of words sharing a common etymological root. One group of words (κοιάζει, etc.) is associated with the pledge. A further set of words (κοίης, etc.) is linked to the context of sacred rites. The relationship between the meanings conveyed by the two groups of words has not yet been adequately elucidated. The article puts forth the suggestion of referring to the Institutes of Gaius, which provides a detailed account of the archaic Roman institution of "taking a pledge", pignoris capio, which was utilized, among other purposes, to secure a sacrifice. The article posits that in archaic times, a pledge could be used to secure a sacrifice, thereby establishing a semantic connection between the two groups of words in the Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon
Le cautionnement est‑il mentionné dans les lois de Gortyne ?
No full textCet article se focalise sur la signification des mots ἀν[δ]εκσάμ̣[ε]νος, ἀνδοκάν, ἀνδοκᾶδ, ἀνδέκσεται et [ἐν]κ̣οιοτάνς, ἐνκοιοτᾶν dans les lois de Gortyne du ve siècle av. J.‑C. Plusieurs chercheurs ont supposé que ces mots désignaient le cautionnement. Cette recherche a pour but de démontrer que cette supposition est plutôt erronée et que le cautionnement est difficile à imaginer dans les lois de Gortyne du ve siècle av. J.‑C. En plus, le cautionnement de l’époque classique n’était pas bien élaboré. Cette institution mettait en danger le créditeur et surtout la caution. Probablement c’est pour cette raison que le cautionnement ne se rencontre qu’à partir du ve siècle av. J.‑C. (il y a même des témoignages que la sûreté réelle était pour les athéniens plus préférable même au ive siècle av. J.‑C.). Il est difficile de trouver le cautionnement dans le droit civil des lois de Gortyne, qui est moins élaboré par rapport à celui des discours des orateurs athéniens.This article focuses on the meaning of the words ἀν[δ]εκσάμ̣[ε]νος, ἀνδοκάν, ἀνδοκᾶδ, ἀνδέκσεται and [ἐν]κ̣οιοτάνς, ἐνκοιοτᾶν in the fifth-century BC Gortyn laws. Some scholars suggested that these words refer to surety. The purpose of this research is to show that this assumption is wrong and that surety is difficult to imagine in the Gortyn law of the fifth century BC. Moreover, surety was not well developed in the classical period. It puts both the creditor and the guarantor at risk and probably for this reason surety bonds did not appear until the fifth century BC (there is even evidence that the Athenians preferred real security as early as the fourth century BC). It is difficult to find sureties in the law of Gortyn, which is less elaborate than that of the speeches of the Athenian orators
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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