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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
Interethnic relations during the period of nation-state formation in Chile and Argentina. From sovereign to Ethnic. New School for Social Research, 1984
No full textIntroduction (by Diego Escolar, Corpus Director) During the last 25 years, ethnohistory, the historical anthropology or, plainly, the history of indigenous societies from Patagonia, Pampean area and Araucanía have experienced a remarkable development. This is especially conspicuous as regards the relationship between those indigenous groups and the Creole society during the Nation-State formation process in the 19th century, being now this relationship a major concern to the majority of studies on those groups and others with different regional context, in Argentina as well as in Chile. Martha Bechis’s PhD Dissertation, that we present here, can be considered, if not a cornerstone, the main influence—the “original accumulation” of intellectual resources, the working hypothesis, the emphasis on the reconstruction of processes rather than the definition of “cultural areas”, the linking of wide and scattered documentary corpus—to this strong current of study and the problems it deals with. The thesis was defended in the New School for Social Research in 1984, and the jury was formed by Stanley Diamond, Rayna Rapp and William Roseberry. It tackled the “diachronic of ethnicity” of the various communities globally named as Araucanos in the context of the Argentinean and Chilean nations-states formation. The principal thesis was that the loss of independence and sovereignty by the Araucanos and their inclusion in the national states as “ethnic groups” was due not to the military superiority of the Creole, but to the political and economical processes that led to the building of territory, population, and market entailed in the formation of modern national states. Bechis points out that it is only during the decade of 1870 when the indigenous chieftains first feel that they may lose sovereignty and the Creole that they may jeopardize it. The speed with which these feelings politically materialized, in only ten years, as the rupture of a long statu quo between both societies and the death of the indigenous sovereignty is a function, says Bechis, of the incorporation of the Creole societies into the financial capitalism and, at the same time, an unprecedented increase of the indigenous societies’ wealth and strength to the end of their sovereignty process. A large part of these theories, the corpus used by Bechis, her rigorous analyses and incisive questions can be traced through her later production up to the present, though her authorship or inspiration is not always acknowledged as it should. This might be due in fact to the absence of edition of her thesis. For some reason we do not understand, her Dissertation has never been published as a book, though it has circulated in an almost clandestine way, distributed most of the times by Martha herself, thus resembling the stories of the lost archives of indigenous history—like the one that tells how Calfuncurá was buried in the Pampean sands so that his body would not be appropriated by the Argentinean army—that Martha used to tell us, ecstatic participants of her PhD seminar, “Ethnohistory as historical dynamics of hegemonic situations among alternate groups”, held in 1999 at the Philosophy and Literature School in the Buenos Aires University. Together with those stories, Martha used to give us solitary paper boats, photocopies of fragments of her thesis, of which she had a single typed copy. With this text, the author founded a new field and at the same time acted as a hinge between historiographical and social-anthropological studies of the “pan-araucana area”, while setting a path with her seminars and photocopies. She left important teachings that too often have been forgotten in spite of their importance. She proved, in an early stage, the potential of connecting anthropological and historiographical perspectives, and that it is no longer possible to think of “indigenous societies” as political bodies separated from “Creole societies”, or Argentinean and Chilean national histories without taking into consideration at the same time the parallel dynamics of indigenous histories of the “pan-araucana” area (the word “araucana” itself would show the border condition between the classic and the newer studies, enabling a whole new horizon or problems that could not be thought of back then). With the launching of this new Dissertations section in CORPUS, we wanted to pay homage to Martha Bechis and her PhD Dissertation, which we offer for the first time for the public in its original format, thus perpetuating her legend. We sincerely thank Martha for entrusting this material to us, thus widening the scope of Corpus by unclassifying this true jewel. We aspire to continue presenting unpublished classic works, but also to offer this space to quality productions, i.e. PhD, Master and degree dissertations, welcoming those works that publishing companies reject for marketing reasons but which have an eager reading public
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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