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No full textAfterword to Manikis, Marie, and Gabrielle Watson (eds), Sentencing, Public Opinion, and Criminal Justice: Essays in Honour of Julian V Roberts (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 6 Jan. 2025)
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
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
The search for intent in contemporary criminal law (XIXe-XXe centuries)
No full textL'appréhension de l'intention peut nous sembler excessivement simple, de même que sa définition. Nous pourrions dire que l'intention, c'est ce que nous voulons, dans notre for intérieur, sans nécessairement attendre que se produise une extériorisation. Dans cette hypothèse, l'intention est éminemment personnelle, mais également immatérielle, puisqu'elle ne dispose pas d'ancrage dans le monde sensible à ce stade. De la même manière, nous pourrions considérer que l'action intentionnelle correspondrait à un acte déterminé, causé avec une volonté elle aussi déterminée. Ici, l'action sort du for intérieur pour pénétrer le for extérieur. L'entrée dans le monde tangible est d'ailleurs une condition pour que le droit commence à s'intéresser aux intentions, là où la religion - par exemple -, peut se contenter de pensées impures pour passer à l'action. Seulement, une fois que nous avons posé ces éléments, si nous voulons gratter ce vernis pragmatique, la situation se corse : en somme, nous avons tout dit, et rien dit à la fois. En effet, qu'est-ce que la volonté ? Comment prouver l'intention ? Peut-on penser le droit criminel sans intentionnalité ? Voilà quelques questions, parmi d'autres, qui peuvent se poser, à plus forte raison dans un système légaliste. Aussi délicate à appréhender soit-elle, l'intention a pourtant su se lover dans notre législation pénale. Sur le constat d'une absence de définition opérante, qu'elle soit législative, jurisprudentielle ou doctrinale, il peut donc nous sembler intéressant d'adopter une approche historique pour essayer de comprendre et maîtriser les soubassements idéologiques qui ont pu œuvrer pour que s'impose une telle notion. En outre, un travail concret sur la manière dont la justice peut se saisir de la question intentionnelle doit s'imposer, en mobilisant des sources archivistiques, des entretiens avec des professionnels de la justice, ou en analysant les propos doctrinaux sur le sujet, entre autres. Finalement, c'est une fois que nous essayons de comprendre concrètement ce que peut être l'intention que nous constatons son statut éminemment fugace, presque évanescent, et que nous pouvons nous interroger sur la compatibilité de la notion avec la construction concomitante d'un droit pénal soumis à certains principes cardinaux, comme le principe de la légalité criminelle.The understanding of intention may seem excessively simple, as may its definition. We could say that intention is what we want, in our innermost being, without necessarily waiting for an externalisation. In this hypothesis, the intention is eminently personal, but also immaterial since it has no anchorage in the sensible world at this stage. In the same way, we could consider that intentional action would correspond to a determined act, caused with a determined will. Here, the action comes out of the inner world to enter the outer world. The entry into the tangible world is, moreover, a condition for the law to begin to take an interest in intentions, whereas religion, for example, can be satisfied with impure thoughts to act. However, once we have laid down these elements, if we want to scrape off this pragmatic veneer, the situation becomes more difficult: in short, we have said everything and nothing at the same time. Indeed, what is the will? How can we prove intention? Can we think of criminal law without intentionality? These are some of the questions that may arise, especially in a legalistic system. However delicate it may be to grasp, intention has nevertheless found its way into our criminal legislation. Given the absence of an operative definition, whether legislative, jurisprudential, or doctrinal, it may therefore seem interesting to adopt a historical approach to try to understand and master the ideological underpinnings that may have worked to impose such a notion. In addition, concrete work on the way in which the justice system can deal with the intentional question must be carried out, by mobilising archival sources, interviews with justice professionals, or by analysing doctrinal statements on the subject, among other things. Finally, it is once we try to understand, concretely, what intention can be, that we note its eminently fleeting, almost evanescent status, and that we can question the compatibility of the notion with the concomitant construction of a criminal law subject to certain cardinal principles, such as the principle of criminal legality
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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