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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
Book Ends & Odd Books : Publications Refuting Conventional Form from the Banff Centre Library Collection
No full textMathur explains how he "unselected" nearly 200 works for this exhibition of unconventional publications by international artists and authors, recognizing the influence of Ulises Carrion's article "The New Art of Making Books." The author reflects upon the roles of language and poetics, the distinction between book and text, and how politics and power affect the making and reception of these works. 2 bibl. ref
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
The creativity of social innovation : a complex systems framework for social systems intervention
No full textThis manuscript-style dissertation assists to fill the gap in the social innovation literature of social intervention methods that account for worldview bias and the nonlinear dynamical processes of social systems innovation. I investigate a critical consciousness approach to worldview bias and link the result to a nonlinear dynamical approach to creativity in systems transformation so that social innovators may uncover novel transitions in systems dynamics and generate creative solution spaces for beneficial change. The dissertation results in a transdisciplinary theoretical framework for “systemic-dynamic creativity” and four publishable manuscripts on key topics that help guide changemakers in an internal and external reflexive process on social innovation. In the first manuscript I investigate an “internal” approach to Freire’s critical consciousness and how it relates to a complex systems approach to creative consciousness. I show that by making novel distinctions between static and dynamic worldviews, social innovators may become mindfully aware and transform internal bias. In the next manuscript, I move to an “external” approach and examine nonlinear dynamical systems theory to identify the “birthplace” of creativity as it arises applies to multiple systems. I produce a novelty assessment that can aid changemakers in finding “transition points” for systemic innovation, and offer four preconditions to novelty to leverage such points in a Meadows-like intervention toward systemic change. In the third manuscript, I take this nonlinear understanding, apply it to social systems, and find that Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” resembles entropic processes of disordering also found in collective worldviews. I show that the oppositional “negentropic” processes may transform social complexities toward the ordering of creative solutions. Such “internal” and “external” approaches to social change are then synthesized in the fourth manuscript, where I build upon other social innovation methodologies (e.g., Checkland’s soft systems methodology and “social labs”) to generate a method informed by nonlinear dynamics and worldview bias considerations for social innovation intervention. The four publishable manuscripts contribute to scholarship on creativity and social innovation by offering a conception of “creative critical consciousness,” a low-recurrence approach to novelty generation, and a practical social innovation method for changemakers to use when addressing complex social systems challenges.Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)Graduat
Reimagined curatorial practice : land, labour, and community
No full textReimagined Curatorial Practice: Land, Labour, and Community critically examines contemporary initiatives reshaping curation that move beyond western parameters of curation to offer something else. I am asking: How are curators reimagining curatorial praxis? How are curators intentionally caring for their practices to better care for those invited to contribute and for those who constitute their communities? How do these strategies replace, intervene, or work against or in conversation with settler-colonial models to establish accessible, ethical, equitable, and anti-racist spaces of art? Through experiential and archival research, I explore select curatorial models that operate in the intermediary space between setter-established organizations and non-dominant epistemologies, ontologies, and practices. I analyse the mechanisms of these examples in relation to the intersecting pillars of land, labour, and community to consider where and how they open up space for reimagining curation. I employ a decolonial feminist methodological approach to assess and make visible the colonial and patriarchal biases present in western curatorial praxes and to extend the scholarship on feminist and decolonial curation in Canada through models that centre direct action. Finally, I locate Canadian practices within international discourses that speak to instrumental change towards equity within dominant culture spaces and demonstrate praxes that have been built predominantly through relationships that support and underscore relational and land-based pedagogies. With emphasis on the relational methodologies that shape my own practice, my study is relative to the locations and practitioners from which and with whom these ideas have evolved, and my relationship to them.Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)Graduat
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
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