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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
Knowledge and Sensitivity
No full textO assunto principal desta tese é a natureza do conhecimento empírico. Penso que conhecimento seja, pelo menos, crença verdadeira sensitiva: uma crença que não seria formada ou sustentada pelo sujeito caso fosse falsa, mas formada ou sustentada caso verdadeira. Defenderei mais especificamente a tese de que a sensitividade é melhor compreendida no interior da teoria da função apropriada. De acordo com a epistemologia da função apropriada, uma crença verdadeira conta como conhecimento somente se (i) for produzida por um mecanismo funcionando apropriadamente, (ii) num ambiente adequado, (iii) tal mecanismo visar a verdade, (iv) tender a produzir mais crenças verdadeiras do que falsas, e (v) não houver anuladores. Penso que as condições (i) e (ii) só podem ser satisfatoriamente formuladas levando-se em conta a sensitividade, ao mesmo tempo que a sensitividade encontra a sua melhor formulação quando levadas em conta (i) e (ii). Grosso modo, defenderei que a sensitividade é uma questão da crença do sujeito ser responsiva à verdade por ser produto de um mecanismo cognitivo funcionando num ambiente favorável: um ambiente no qual ele não formaria tal crença caso tal crença fosse falsa, mas que, caso verdadeira, a formaria. Começarei, no Capítulo I, com o seguinte desideratum: oferecer uma condição anti-sorte ao conhecimento. Argumento que a sensitividade é a principal candidata à condição anti-sorte. No Capítulo II apresento a versão clássica da sensitividade e algumas de suas principais dificuldades. No Capítulo III, proponho a sensitividade como inerente à epistemologia da função apropriada e respondo às dificuldades levantadas no capítulo anterior. No capítulo IV, discuto uma condição anti-sorte rival, a segurança, e argumento que a sensitividade é superior. Por fim, no Capítulo V, trato de outro desideratum importante a qualquer teoria do conhecimento, o ceticismo. A adoção da sensitividade fornece uma resposta atraente ao ceticismo, ainda que amplamente considerada implausível, uma vez que parece violar um princípio epistêmico plausível, o princípio de fechamento. Argumentarei que podemos manter um princípio restrito de fechamento e que a sensitividade explica por que podemos fazer tal restrição.The subject matter of this dissertation is the nature of empirical knowledge. My view is that knowledge is at least sensitive true belief: one that the subject wouldn?t form or hold were it was false, but he would form it or hold it were it was true. I will argue that sensitivity is better understood functionalism, a true belief is knowledge only if (i) it is formed by a cognitive mechanism functioning properly (ii) in a proper environment, and this mechanism (iii) has to aim truth, (iv) having the tendency to produce more true beliefs than false ones, and (v) no defeater being available. I think that conditions (i) and (ii) can?t be adequately stated unless we take into account the sensitivity condition. The same is true for sensitivity: its better formulation is stated when we consider (i) and (ii). Roughly, I will argue that the sensitivity of one?s belief is a matter of its responsiveness to truth due to the proper function of one?s cognitive mechanism in a favorable environment: an environment where the subject wouldn?t form or hold the belief were it was false, but he would believe it were it was true. I begin, in Chapter I, with the following desideratum: to provide an anti-luck condition to knowledge. I argue that sensitivity is the main candidate to such condition. In Chapter II the standard version of sensitivity and some of the main difficulties to it are presented. Then, in Chapter III, I propose to understand sensitivity as inherent to proper functionalism and reply to the difficulties previously presented. A rival of sensitivity, the safety condition, is discussed in Chapter IV. I defend sensitivity over safety. Finally, in Chapter V, another important desideratum to any theory of knowledge is taken in consideration: skepticism. The adoption of sensitivity provides an attractive way to respond to skeptical argument, but at the coast of the rejection of closure principle, a very plausible epistemic principle. I will argue that we can adopt a restrict version of closure and that this restriction is predicted by sensitivity.Cape
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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