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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
<em>glosur lesnar af undirdiupi omeliarum hins mikla Gregorij, Augustini, Ambrosij ok Jeronimi ok annarra kennifedra</em> : Väterzitate und Politik in der <em>Jóns saga baptista</em> des Grímr Hólmsteinsson
No full textDie Arbeitsbedingungen mittelalterlicher Autoren liegen aufgrund der schlechten Quellenlage bis heute weitgehend im Dunkeln. Dies gilt insbesondere für den altwestnordischen Kulturraum, dessen Autoren vorwiegend anonym in der Volkssprache schrieben. Die vorliegende Dissertation versucht diesen Kenntnisrückstand an einem konkreten Text aufzuarbeiten. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand wurde Jóns saga baptista2 (Island, 13. Jh.) gewählt, weil der Text einerseits kaum behandelt worden ist, andererseits durch den namentlich bekannten Autor wie Auftraggeber eine zuverlässige Verankerung im historischen Kontext seiner Entstehung ermöglicht. Dieser Kontext ist geprägt von politischen Umbrüchen und dem Beginn einer neuen stilistischen Epoche in der Literatur. Die Untersuchung wird von folgenden Fragen geleitet: (1) Welche Quellen standen isländischen mittelalterlichen Autoren zur Verfügung? (2) Wie verwendeten sie diese? (3) Wie wurde ihr Schaffen von den soziopolitischen Umständen geprägt? Hierzu wurden die Quellen durch Rückübersetzung und Stichwortsuche in lateinischen Textdatenbanken identifiziert und einem genauen Vergleich unterzogen. Der soziopolitische Zusammenhang wurde durch die Erhebung dominierender Motive und den Abgleich mit zeitgenössischen Quellen beleuchtet. Im Einzelnen wurden folgende Ergebnisse erlangt: (1) 37 lateinische Texte von 23 spätantiken und mittelalterlichen Autoren wurden als Quellen der Saga identifiziert, zu denen der Autor teils direkt, teils zweiter Hand in Form von Homiliaren, Historienbibeln und Enzyklopädien Zugriff hatte. (2) Im Umgang mit seinen Vorlagen zeigt der Autor eine autonome Flexibilität und passt die aus dem Lateinischen ererbten Phänomene an die Bedingungen seiner Quellen und Arbeitssprache an. Sein Selbstverständnis lässt sich innerhalb der Koordinaten auctor, translator, commentator und compilator platzieren; eine solche Differenzierung ist für das 13. Jh. charakteristisch. Als ebenfalls typisch erweist sich die stilistische Ausrichtung des Textes nach kontinentalen hagiographischen und exegetischen Traditionen. (3) An der hohen Anzahl kirchenrechtlicher Zitate zeigt sich außerdem, dass zeitgenössische Reformen im kanonischen und säkularen Recht und dadurch hervorgerufene politische Konflikte in Island (sog. staðamál siðarri) einen großen Einfluss auf Inhalt und Form des Textes hatten. Der Saga liegt eine politische Intention zugrunde, die sich nur aus einer neuen, exakten Datierung auf die Jahre 1285/86 erklären lässt. Die Studie gibt dem Leser einen tiefen Einblick in die Quellen, Ausbildung und Arbeitstechniken eines gelehrten Verfassers und seine Verstrickungen in die Kirchenpolitik. Sie konkretisiert die politische und kulturelle Situation Islands unmittelbar nach dem Verlust der politischen und ökonomischen Unabhängigkeit an Norwegen und beweist, dass die isländische klerikale Elite Anschluss an die Gelehrsamkeit und Kirchenpolitik im übrigen Europa hatte.The Church Fathers and ecclesiastical politics in Grímr Hólmsteinsson's Jóns saga baptista Up to the present day, the working conditions of medieval authors have remained obscure until today because of our limited access to their sources. This applies particularly to the Old Norse cultural milieu, where, for the most part, authors worked anonymously and in the vernacular. The present study aims to close this gap with a detailed case study focusing on Jóns saga baptista2 (Iceland, 13th century). This text has been chosen for investigation because it has hardly been examined despite the reliable information that survives regarding its production context. This context is characterised by political riots and the invention of a new manner of writing. In this investigation, the saga was examined according to the following research questions: (1) Which sources were used by this particular Old Norse authors? (2) How did he use them? (3) How was his work conditioned by sociopolitical circumstances? For this purpose, the sources for Jóns saga baptista2 were identified and analysed according to a precise textual comparison. An understanding of their sociopolitical context was developed on the basis of predominant motives in the saga and their comparison with contemporary sources. The following results were obtained: (1) 37 Latin texts by 23 Late Ancient and Medieval authors were identified as the saga's sources. The author accessed these sources either directly or by transmission via homiliaries, history bibles and encyclopedias. (2) The author approached these sources freely and adopted Latin phenomena to his working conditions and target language. He evidently conceived of himself within established terms such as auctor, translator, commentator or compilator, distinctions which are characteristic of the 13th century. Likewise, the text's stylistic features comply with 13th-century exegetical and hagiographic traditions. (3) By addressing novelties in canon law, the saga reveals itself as being influenced in both form and content by contemporary law reforms and resulting political strife in Iceland (so-called staðamál siðarri). Read against this historical background, the writing of the saga implies political intentions that can be explained only by its creation around the year 1285/86. The study provides an in-depth investigation into the sources, education and working methods of a learned author and and documents his entanglement with ecclesiastical politics. It substantiates Iceland's political and cultural situation after the loss of independence to Norway and demonstrates the participation of Icelandic church elites in the learned circles and church politicas of Europe at large
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
Rezension von: Christian Oertel: The Cult of St Erik in Medieval Sweden. Veneration of a Royal Saint, Twelfth-Sixteenth Centuries
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