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The starting-points in the Coligny Calendar
No full textLyle Emily B. The starting-points in the Coligny Calendar. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 30, 1994. pp. 285-289
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Clootie wells and water-kelpies : an ethnological approach to the fresh water traditions of sacred wells and supernatural horses in Scotland
Get PDFThis thesis examines different aspects of tradition relating to fresh water in Scotland.
They include: the use of water from wells and springs for healing and divination
purposes; the beliefs around the lin1inal quality of water, often considered as
boundary, and around its magical association with the horse; and finally folktales
featuring the water-horse, or kelpie, a supernatural creature which was said to inhabit
lochs and rivers. In dealing with topics so different one from the other, within the
larger field of Scottish customs and beliefs, it proved necessary to use a variety of
sources and methods. Comparative study was often particularly illuminating.
After presenting the history of visits to sacred wells, I deal with two main categories
of customs associated with these pilgrimages, namely healing rituals and divination
practices. While the former leads to the analysis of the different stages and
implications of the ritual, the latter looks into the issues that were left to supernatural
powers to decide upon, and examines how the questions asked of the oracle evolved
with time. Consideration of these powers then leads on to further inquiry into the
liminal function of fresh water in general, and its links with boundaries both spatial
and temporal. That the horse, another element that is ascribed definite liminal
qualities, was associated with water is therefore not fortuitous. If water provides an
entry to an Other World, the horse can then take one through into this other land.
Indeed, this is what is found in the corpus of tales centred on the figure of the waterhorse.
As some of the tale-types are met in other geographical areas - Ireland and
Scandinavia mainly - a discussion of these will provide a general background to the
tales, which will result in a proposal for a revised tale-index. Two shared types -the
work-horse and the abductor of children - will then be examined in the Scottish
context. One type, however, - the seducer - seems to be unique to Scotland, and it
will be dealt with last.
The aim of this work is twofold: first, to provide an ethnological piece of research
from a diachronic perspective on a subject outwith the usual themes generally chosen
for studies of this nature; second, to present together, in their Scottish context,
folktales that have been hitherto broken up and read in the light of their relationships
to their foreign counterparts.
Although recent academic studies on healing wells exist for Ireland and France, the
Scottish material has never previously been treated in such a study. A number of
sources available were secondary accounts, dating back mainly to the turn of the
twentieth century, and part of my research involved finding the original documents
used - sometimes misused - in order to present them in their original context.
Similarly, part of the work on the kelpie stories involved gathering together tales
kept in the Sound Archive of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of
Edinburgh that had never been collected into a single corpus. I hope in this thesis to
provide a sound basis for further researches on these types of Scottish customs and
beliefs
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