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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
HISTORY LESSONS: FEATURES OF THE SINO-SOVIET MANAGEMENT OF CER IN THE 1920’S
No full textThe article is devoted to the Sino-Soviet management of Chinese Eastern railway (CER), which still stays poorly studied, full of contradictions. Despite the variety of studies on the history of CER there is a number of questions that need clarification. What was CER for the USSR and China? Was the equal terms real, not nominal? How justified were the claims of the Soviet and Chinese sides to each other? On the basis of unpublished archival sources, (in particular, Russian State Historical Archive), the article examines the points of view of both the Soviet and Chinese sides on the activities and importance of the CER, analyzes the composition of the CER Board and Management, employees and workers with Soviet and Chinese citizenship, identifies cases of parity violation. The author comes to the conclusion that the joint Sino-Soviet management of CER faced a number of problems related to the political, social and cultural differences between the two countries, as well as the international and domestic political situation. Both sides suspected each other of violating parity and exceeding authority, and treated hierarchy issues differently. In addition to language difficulties and problems of intercultural communication, the unclear prospects of the USSR in Northern Manchuria and increased Chinese nationalism played a role. Nevertheless, both the Soviet and Chinese sides have shown themselves being pragmatists and realists, using various strategies to strengthen and keep power at the CER
«Siberian Satrap» M. M. Lashevich and his death in Harbin
No full textThe article is dedicated to the Soviet politician M. M. Lashevich (1884–1928),
a participant in the revolution and the Civil War, chairman of the Siberian
Revolutionary Committee. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that his
activities as a fellow chairman of the Board of the CER in 1926–1928 little known,
as are the causes of death in Harbin. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the
final period of Lashevich’s life in the context of the Soviet presence in China, with
emphasis placed on the perception of Lashevich’s personality by Russian emigration
in Manchuria, the circumstances of his death and posthumous biography using
an anthropological approach and the biographical method. The research is based
on unpublished sources, ego-documents and periodical materials from Harbin.
The author emphasizes that the study of such extraordinary figures as Lashevich
is important not only for understanding Soviet policy in China, but also for clarifying
the problems of perception and assessment of the activities of Soviet leaders by
ideological opponents
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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