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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
Discovering the Nature of Conducting at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak
No full textAn honest reflection of my experience at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak. The paper follows the journey of how I decided to become a conductor and how I ended up conducting in rural Maine for two weeks. I chronicle my adventures at Medomak that lead to my first time conducting an orchestra in concert
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
Maybe We Read This Wrong: Rehabilitating the Female Bildungsroman by Focusing on Growth, Not Resolution
No full textThis thesis reconsiders the progress heroines make in Female Bildungsromane written by female authors in the nineteenth and first two decades of the twentieth century, which were previously debated in scholarship as unsuccessful due to their ‘failure’ endings of reductive capitulation to social integration (fates of heterosexual marriage and motherhood) or destruction of the autonomous self (fates of isolation, alcoholism, despair, illness, exile or, most commonly, death). I argue that the language of success and failure is too teleological and too narrow to effectively analyze the Female Bildungsroman given the heteropatriarchal constraints of society and literary genre, thus necessitating a revised assessment of how to dissect the growth of a heroine within novels from this period. Within this thesis, I propose a new theorization of the Bildungsroman based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs that principally studies the ongoing pursuit of self-actualization, which the Bildungsroman heroine is questing towards. This theorization relies on decentering Bildungsroman study from an overreliance on conclusions, focussing on moments in the development sections of these novels of development that exemplify both the progress heroines fashion towards self-actualization and the radical acts of resistance performed by female authors as they dare to tell stories of self-actualizing heroines in a time when gender denied women the right to exist beyond the relational self.
I first investigate the development of the heroine in a pair of famous nineteenth novels, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening that have the success of their female Bildungsroman storyline highly debated. These novels serve as case studies for the paradigmatic ‘failure’ endings – Pride and Prejudice as reductive capitulation to social integration and The Awakening as destruction of the autonomous self – as I attempt to rehabilitate the growth exhibited by heroines within these unsuccessful endings of the female Bildungsroman. I then pivot into the twentieth century to examine how modernism permitted female authors to craft female Bildungsroman with successful endings, especially for women with marginalized female identities. Through applying my revised Bildungsroman theorization to case studies of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, I illustrate how two different atypical middle-aged heroines, a queer spinster and an African American widow, grow significantly over the development portions of their novels to triumphantly conclude their stories as autonomous women in the continual pursuit of self-actualization. Consequently, in this project that spans 150 years of feminist literature, I intend to prioritize the growth, not the resolution, of a heroine’s story to rediscover inflexions of agency and progress within the Bildungsroman genre in a thesis that ultimately rehabilitates the progressive moves female authors construct within and beyond the limits of ‘failure’ endings, charting the course for the eventual arrival at the successful, Modernist Female Bildungsroman
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