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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
Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871)
Get PDFHall conceived an interest in arctic exploration in his late thirties and in 1859 he mounted his first expedition in search of Franklin. He sailed to Baffin Island on board a whaling vessel and was fortunate to encounter an English-speaking Eskimo couple when he was put on shore. They taught him about arctic survival and were his loyal companions throughout his life. His next trip north was made in 1865. This time the whaling vessel put him ashore at Roe\u27s Welcome Sound in Hudson\u27s Bay. In 1869 he finally reached King William Island where he found relics from the Franklin Expedition, but gave up hope of finding any survivors. In 1871 he sailed north as leader of a full-scale expedition, aboard the Polaris. He and the leader of the scientific staff, Dr. Emil Bessels, shared very poor relations, and once the ship and crew had settled for the winter in Hall Basin, Hall briefly travelled by sledge northwards, returned to the ship, and after drinking a cup of coffee became violently ill. He died two weeks later. His body was exhumed in 1968 by Chauncey Loomis, Hall\u27s biographer. An autopsy revealed that Hall had been given large doses of arsenic, which was commonly used as a medicine, prior to his death. It is not known whether Dr. Bessels did this, accidentally or otherwise, or the arsenic was self-administered. However, Dr. Bessels never admitted to the Board of enquiry that he administered any arsenic to Charles Hall
Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity, by David Chapin
Get PDFEbierbing (ca. 1837-ca. 1881)
Get PDFEbierbing, called "Joe" by the many whaling men and explorers who knew him, was a small and diffident man, but in the course of a hard life he consistently displayed remarkable strength, courage, and fortitude, as well as unswerving loyalty to those non-Inuit "kabloonas" who came to depend upon him. Foremost among those who benefited from Ebierbing\u27s loyalty was the American explorer Charles Francis Hall. Hall first met Ebierbing and his wife Tookoolito, known as "Hannah," at the mouth of Frobisher Bay in the autumn of 1860. Some years earlier, Ebierbing and Tookoolito had been taken to England by a whaling captain. There they had learned some English and had converted to Christianity; .... For Hall, a neophyte explorer on his first venture into the Arctic, they were God sent. In the two years that followed they introduced him to the ways of the Inuit and taught him how to survive in the far North. When they were not on the road with the remorselessly energetic Hall, they were able to find peace and quiet at the home of whaling captain Sidney Buddington and his wife at Groton, Connecticut. They came to consider Groton their home, in fact, and when they returned with Hall from his second expedition, Ebierbing bought a house and land there. Hall\u27s second expedition, like his first, was a futile search for supposed survivors of the Franklin expedition almost twenty years after it had disappeared. In five arduous years of roaming in the areas of Roe\u27s Welcome Sound, Repulse Bay, Igloolik, and King William Island, he accomplished little but his own survival, and in that accomplishment Ebierbing and Tookoolito again were his mainstay. ... The Polaris expedition was a disaster. Hall died early on, possibly murdered by its chief scientist, and with his death the morale of the expedition collapsed. In the spring of 1873 the ship\u27s captain, Sidney Buddington, headed the Polaris southward. Caught in ice during a storm, he ordered abandonment of the ship. Nineteen members of the expedition, including Ebierbing, Tookoolito, and their adopted child, found themselves marooned on a floe when the partly unloaded ship suddenly drifted away. According to George Tyson, the ranking officer in the marooned party, in the incredible six-month drift on the ice that followed, everyone depended on Ebierbing. "We survive through God\u27s mercy and Joe\u27s ability as a hunter," he wrote in his journal. At the official investigation of the expedition held after both Tyson\u27s party and the men aboard the Polaris had been rescued, Ebierbing and Tookoolito were questioned. And during his interrogation Joe revealed the depth of his feeling about Hall, saying at the end: "Captain Hall good man. Very sorry when he die. No get north after that. Don\u27t know nothing more." But he did go north again - twice more in fact. While Tookoolito remained in Groton grieving the loss of their adopted child, Ebierbing sailed with Captain Allen Young on the Pandora in 1876, a British expedition in search of the northwest passage. ... Ebierbing returned from the Pandora expedition to discover that his beloved Tookoolito had died. He remained in Groton briefly, then set out north again, this time with Lt. Frederick Schwatka in his search for records of the Franklin expedition. ... When Schwatka returned to the United States, Ebierbing stayed in the North. ... He died somewhere in the Arctic soon after the conclusion of the Schwatka expedition. ..
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
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