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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
Implementing a trusted repository to support the storage and preservation of research data at the national research foundation (NRF)
Get PDFAbstracts in English, Sotho and ZuluThe purpose of this research was to identify critical factors necessary for the implementation of a trusted repository for managing research data. A research data survey was conducted with 36 Information professionals at the NRF to investigate the state of readiness at the organisation for implementing the repository. According to the survey results a need was identified for storage and preservation of student data, databases and reports managed by the Information professionals. Other research data types that are mostly generated were Websites, Databases and manuals that require secure storage. The study further revealed the need for metadata training in the organisation as an important component for research data preservation. More than half of the Information professionals revealed that their metadata is system generated and there is minimum involvement required from them. Through the review of the existing literature and the NRF data survey, the researcher was able to bring forward recommendations that can be applied for improvement of preservation services. Recommendations made include that professionals should be trained, there should be policy development and review of existing research data within the organisation. Secure storage mediums should be an investment for the organisation based on the research data generated through research activities and managed by the NRF professionals.Morero oa lipatlisiso tsena e ne e le ho supa lintlha tsa bohlokoa tse hlokahalang bakeng sa ho kenya tsebetsong polokelo e tsepahalang ea taolo ea data ea lipatlisiso. Patlisiso ea data ea lipatlisiso e entsoe le litsebi tse 36 tsa Tlhahisoleseling ho NRF ho etsa lipatlisiso tsa boemo ba ho itokisa mokhatlong. Ho latela liphetho tsa phuputso tlhoko e fumanoe ea ho boloka le ho boloka tlhaiso-leseling ea baithuti, marang-rang le litlaleho tse laoloang ke litsebi tsa Tlhahisoleseling. Mefuta e meng ea data ea lipatlisiso e hlahisoang haholo ke Liwebosaete, Libaka tsa boitsebiso le libuka tse hlokang polokelo e bolokehileng. Boithuto bo tsoetse pele ho senola tlhoko ea koetliso ea metadata mokhatlong e le karolo ea bohlokoa bakeng sa ho boloka lintlha tsa lipatlisiso. Ba fetang halofo ea litsebi tsa Tlhahisoleseling ba senotse hore metadata ea bona e entsoe ka sistimi mme ho na le karolo e nyane e hlokahalang ho bona. Ka ho hlahloba lingoliloeng tse seng li ntse li le teng le phuputso ea litaba tsa NRF mofuputsi o ile a khona ho tlisa likhothaletso tse ka sebelisoang ho ntlafatsa litsebeletso tsa polokeho. Litlhahiso tse entsoeng e ne e le koetliso bakeng sa litsebi, nts'etsopele ea leano le tlhahlobo ea lintlha tse teng tsa lipatlisiso ka har'a mokhatlo. Lits'ireletso tse bolokehileng li lokela ho tsetela mokhatlong o ipapisitseng le tlhaiso-leseling e entsoeng ka mesebetsi ea lipatlisiso le ho tsamaisoa ke litsebi tsa NRF.Inhloso yalolu cwaningo kwakuwukuthola izinto ezibucayi ezidingekayo ekufezeni indawo yokugcina ethembekile yokuphatha idatha yocwaningo. Ucwaningo lwedatha yocwaningo lwenziwa nochwepheshe bezokwaziswa abangama-36 kwa-NRF ukuphenya isimo sokulungela kule nhlangano. Ngokwemiphumela yocwaningo kwahlonzwa isidingo sokugcinwa kanye nokulondolozwa kwemininingwane yabafundi, imininingwane yolwazi kanye nemibiko ephethwe ngochwepheshe boLwazi. Ezinye izinhlobo zedatha yocwaningo ezikhiqizwa kakhulu ngamaWebhusayithi, amaDathabhe namabhukwana adinga ukugcinwa okuphephile. Ucwaningo luqhubeke lwembula isidingo sokuqeqeshwa kwemethadatha kule nhlangano njengengxenye ebalulekile yokulondolozwa kwedatha yocwaningo. Ngaphezu kwengxenye yochwepheshe boLwazi baveze ukuthi imethadatha yabo yenziwa ngohlelo futhi kukhona ukubandakanyeka okuncane okudingekayo kubo. Ngokubuyekezwa kwemibhalo ekhona kanye nenhlolovo yedatha ye-NRF umcwaningi ukwazile ukuletha izincomo ezingasetshenziswa ukwenza ngcono izinsizakalo zokulondolozwa. Izincomo ezenziwe kwaba ukuqeqeshwa kochwepheshe, ukuthuthukiswa kwenqubomgomo nokubuyekezwa kwedatha yocwaningo ekhona ngaphakathi kwenhlangano. Izindlela zokugcina ezivikelekile kufanele kube wutshalo-mali lwenhlangano olususelwa kwimininingwane yocwaningo eyenziwe ngemisebenzi yocwaningo futhi ephethwe ngabachwepheshe be-NRF.M. Inf.Information Scienc
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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