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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
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Un-Dissectable Bodies: Literature, Anatomy, and Salvation in Early Modern England
No full textWhat happens when we take the religious curiosities of early modern anatomical writing seriously? What happens when we believe anatomist Andreas Vesalius when he longs for his resurrection body, or when we regard Guillaume Du Bartas’s hexameral description of God creating Adam’s corneas as a valid scientific account? What happens when we approach John Milton’s depiction of the bodily alterations caused by the Fall as a genuine physiological theory? My dissertation attends to just such moments: moments that are easy to dismiss because they have little place in modern anatomy but that provide a window into the theological and literary investments of anatomical writing in early modern England. Attending to those moments allows us to see that the investment in Biblical history that saturates early modern anatomical writing is not extrinsic to anatomical inquiry, nor is it a token gesture towards spirituality in an otherwise secular medical pursuit. Instead, it is part of the very fabric of what early modern anatomy is and does. Early modern anatomy traces the contours of the body in the deep time of salvation history.My dissertation examines early modern anatomical writings ranging from anatomy treatises to hexameral poetry by delving into the substrate of salvation history that shapes their approach to the human form. I argue that early modern anatomists and anatomically minded authors cultivated anatomy as a historical and theological mode of inquiry into the body. Writers ranging from Vesalius to Milton examined the anatomized body as a historical entity whose every fiber was knit into a personal narrative of embodied sin and salvation and into an overarching human narrative of creation, Fall, and resurrection. As a result, early modern anatomy was deeply invested in the prelapsarian body, the ensouled body, and the resurrection body. Unfortunately, all of those bodies eluded the anatomist’s knife. It was there that literature performed crucial work in the production of anatomical knowledge. Literature could take up dissection-based knowledge and methodologies and apply them to the un-dissectable bodies of salvation history. The representational capacities and imaginative scope of anatomical writing, whether in the form of anatomy treatises, poetry, or sermons, allowed writing to function as an experimental terrain in which to reach for the impossible goal of early modern anatomy: to anatomize the human body as it unfolded over Christian history from creation to resurrection.
Early modern anatomy looks different when we view it as a mode of examining the body in the long span of salvation history. Since the mid-1990s, scholarship on early modern anatomy and literature has been shaped by Jonathan Sawday’s model of an early modern “culture of dissection” characterized by violent, systematic fragmentation of the body. That model resonates through scholarship ranging from David Hillman and Carla Mazzio’s edited collection The Body in Parts, which argues for the early modern privileging of dis-integrated parts over a reintegrated whole, to Enrique Fernandez’s recent exploration of literature and dissection in early modern Spain, which emphasizes “the negative and destructive aspect” of anatomization. My dissertation offers an alternate view. I demonstrate that the concept of the body as an entity enwrapped in salvation history created a more flexible relation between fragmentation and bodily integrity. The early modern cadaver was a body in process, situated at one point in a salvation narrative that extended beyond death and dissection to resurrection. The traces of God’s hand in the intricate anatomy of the dissected cadaver affirmed the privileged status of humankind in the fabric of creation, providing embodied evidence of the divine history that promised reintegration. Soteriology marked every fragment of the anatomized body with an indwelling bodily integrity.
My dissertation investigates soteriological anatomy over the course of four chapters, each of which is centered on a particular text or author. I begin with an introduction that proposes biological anthropology as a hermeneutic framework that helps us to recover the theological investments of early modern anatomical writings. Biological anthropology, which includes the archaeological study of human remains and the evolutionary study of human history, reads the body to determine its meaning in relation to a larger narrative to which it bears witness. I argue that early modern anatomical writers saw the body in a similar light, regarding it not only as a record and instantiation of the deep time of human history – in this case, salvation history – but also as the site and guarantor of individual and group identity within that history. Chapter 1, “Andreas Vesalius and the Soteriological Body,” builds on that conceptual framework by demonstrating Vesalius’s investment in un-dissectable, theological iterations of the body in the landmark anatomy treatise De humani corporis fabrica.
In Chapter 2, “Creating Anatomy in Du Bartas’s Devine Weekes and Workes,” I shift from anatomy treatises to anatomical poetry, examining the extended anatomical description of the Adamic body in Du Bartas’s influential hexameral epic. I argue that the merger of theological poetry and practical anatomy in Du Bartas’s Devine Weekes and Workes opens the possibility for a purer form of anatomy than that available on the dissection table because it allows the poet-anatomist to combine dissection-based knowledge with the scriptural narrative of the body’s relationship to God. Chapter 3, “Physiology and the Fall into Medicine in Paradise Lost,” takes up an alternate depiction of Adamic anatomy, including the alterations to the body at the Fall. I argue that the physiology of the Fall has very real stakes for Milton, who seeks to establish sufficient continuity between the pre- and postlapsarian human form for fallen bodies to retain the biological mechanisms necessary for embodied revelation.
Chapter 4, “John Donne, Anatomical Fragmentation, and the Recollected Self,” brings my dissertation to a close by taking up a key through line from the previous chapters, namely, the relationship between fragmentation and bodily integrity. Donne’s writings show how fragmentation can function as a seam between dissection and resurrection. For Donne, the trajectory of salvation history holds fast the fragmented bodies of the seculum, transforming fragmentation from a mode of destruction – destruction not only of the body, but of the selfhood that inheres in the body-soul unit – into a mechanism of incorporative wholeness in which bodily fragmentation and porosity can bind people into relational forms of identity and into the corporate body of Christianity. My dissertation as a whole provides a model for rethinking our scholarly approach to early modern anatomical writing in a manner that attends as much to bodily integrity as to dismemberment, as much to scripture as to the scalpel
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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