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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
L’io trascende il cervello? Popper e il Body-Mind Problem
No full textNel contributo viene discussa l'ipotesi di Popper secondo cui la mente emerge dalla materia seguendo le ben note linee dell'evoluzione. In tale contesto Popper affronta il problema dei rapporti fra l'io e il cervello, la cui interazione avverrebbe nel centro del linguaggio. Nel saggio si nota come sia difficile per Popper conciliare l'evoluzionismo epistemologico con la dottrina ontologica da lui sostenuta relativa all'esistenza di tre mondi interagenti
Logique et dialectique. Sur la justification de certaines argumentations hégéliennes
No full textIn order to make sense of the distinction of «formal» and «dialectical» logic we must find a way of characterizing^ dialectical arguments as opposed to non-dialectical, or analytical arguments. After some discussion of the difficulties connected with the singling out of specifically dialectical arguments within Hegel's texts, certain arguments drawn from the Science of Logic are analyzed as exploiting ambiguities — both syntactic and semantic — in order to derive their conclusions. An argument's conclusion may be reached by taking the same step twice, each time under a different reading. In other cases, the conclusion is obtained by applying relatively standard rules of inference to premisses which represent alternative partial analyses of meaning for one and the same conceptual term. Such a deviant argumentative behaviour, however, is not regarded as sheer sophistry. Rather, it is conceived as stemming from Hegel's unwillingness to accept the regimentation of language which is needed in order to avoid contradictions. From Hegel's viewpoint, the acceptance of such a regimentation would make philosophy presupposition-dependent and therefore «unscientific».Si on veut rendre intelligible la distinction entre logique «formelle» et logique «dialectique», il faut caractériser les argumentations dialectiques en tant que différentes des argumentations non- dialectiques, ou analytiques. Après une discussion des difficultés que comporte l'identification des argumentations spécifiquement dialectiques dans les textes de Hegel, on analyse certaines argumentations tirées de la Science de la Logique et on trouve que leurs conclusions sont obtenues en exploitant des ambiguïtés, syntaxiques aussi bien que sémantiques. Quelquefois, une conclusion est atteinte en prenant le même énoncé deux fois, chaque fois dans une lecture différente; en d'autres cas, on arrive à la conclusion au moyen de l'application de règles de raisonnement relativement «normales» à des prémisses qui constituent des analyses partielles alternatives de la signification du même terme conceptuel. Cela n'est pas interprété comme de la sophistique pure et simple. Plutôt, une telle démarche argumentative doit être conçue comme dérivant du fait que Hegel n'acceptait pas la réglementation à laquelle le langage doit être assujetti pour éviter les contradictions. Du point de vue de Hegel, une telle réglementation introduirait des présupposés dans la philosophie, qui deviendrait par conséquent «non- scientifique».Marconi Diego. Logique et dialectique. Sur la justification de certaines argumentations hégéliennes. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, tome 81, n°52, 1983. pp. 563-579
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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