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Notes on the Peerage of the Ts'ao-Wei Dynasty
Full text linkWith a view to clarifying a few interesting points on the peerage system of the Wei of the Three Dynasties period, firstly the author takes up the process of formation of the Ts'ao-Wei peerage, where it consisted of the five-grade peerage of the Chou period, the lieh-hou 列侯 and khuan-nei-hou 關内侯 titles after the Ch'in-Han system, and the peerage created by Wei itself. Secondly, the author discusses the size of the lieh-hou and khuan-nei-hou fiefs in terms of household and their inner structure. Lastly, the author points out that heir apparency was widened under the Wei, though the "inheritance by real son" principle of the Han period was still in practice. In view of the fact that fiefs were sometimes divided even in the life-time of lord the author relates the Wei peerage to its noble lineage system
Fu-lao (父老)
Full text linkWhat made possible the formation of the communities under the influence of Liu-pang (劉邦), the Kao-tsu (高祖) of the Han Dynasty in the early stage of his reign was the personal relations intimately connected among the members of the communities. This thesis was suggested by Mr. Masubuchi. But according to this view, it is difficult to make clear the process of the evolution of the absolute monarchy as we find in the Han Dynasty. The question why such a powerful government emerged from mere human relations still remains for us to be answered. In connection with this an attempt was made to find in the fu-Iao a clue to understand the social background of the Han Dynasty. The fu-Iao was a social category unique in the communities toward the latter part of the Ch'in and the early part of the Han Dynasty, and in the li (里) it played a great role for the social discipline of the youngers. Originally Liu-pang and his dependents were the strangers to the Ii with the results of their repudiation of the control of the fu-Iao. But since the first year of the second Emperor of the Ch'in Dynasty we are informed of the connection of Liu-pang with the fu-Iao, which tells clearly his deliberate intention to grasp this underlying social unit. The autocratic state of Han had to be established through this von unten movement
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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