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The Authorship of John and the Identity of the Beloved Disciple
No full textThe Gospel of John, the fourth gospel in the New Testament, is one of the most popular books of scripture containing a powerful introduction as well as many oft-quoted verses. However, since the early 19th century the authorship of the Gospel of John has been challenged by a number of scholars as they have proposed alternative authors against the traditional ascription of the Gospel to John the Son of Zebedee. Beginning with David Friedrich Strauss in 1835, an increasing number of scholars have shifted to believing that other sources are responsible for producing the fourth gospel. Raymond Brown suggests that the gospel arose out of a community of early Christian believers, a Johannine Community. Richard Bauckham claims that a different John, John the Elder, is the author of the fourth Gospel. Lastly, Ben Witherington III proposes that Lazarus is the author and the Beloved Disciple. The fourth position examined, and argued for, is the traditional understanding that John the Apostle, the Son of Zebedee, is both the author of the Gospel and the Beloved Disciple. Within all four of these arguments, both the internal arguments of scripture and the external arguments from writers and accounts in the 1st and 2nd centuries were considered, though greater weight was often given to the gospel and other passages of scripture that provide clues towards the identity of the author of the gospel and, consequently, the Beloved Disciple
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
SABR: Projecting MLB WARP for Prospects
No full textOne goal of Sabermetrics is the development of projection systems to predict future player success. Many advanced models have been developed, such as PECOTA from Baseball Prospectus and ZiPS from the Baseball Think Factory. Since teams want to invest, both monetarily and developmentally, into players who will return value, the ability to project how the players will perform is essential. Once players are in the majors for a few seasons they have established what their production level will most likely be. However, when a player is in the minors it is not as clear how they will perform due to differences in levels and leagues. Since prospects and players in their first years in the professionals demand lower pay and are under team control, the team can often garner greater value out of a player at a lower cost. Players are under team control for six years after achieving rookie status so it would be beneficial for a team to be able to project the player’s value over those years so they can try to acquire prospects that should succeed and provide maximum value with minimal costs. Using both advanced metrics and scouts’ rankings to combine the two schools of player evaluation, we developed models to project a player’s average WARP (Wins Above Replacement Player) over their first six seasons when under team control
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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