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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
Making the World a Better Place Today: Fred Cornforth\u27s Mission, Mindset and Motivation
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P-04 From the Academy to the Airwaves: Essaying with National Public Radio’s “Listener Commentary” Community at WVPE-FM 88.1 Elkhart, IN
No full textAs a twenty-two-year resident of the United States, I have found myself drawn to the spaces that National Public Radio makes for the genre that is the subject of my doctoral dissertation and much of my teaching-the essay. Six months ago, I decided to take my expertise from the academy to the airwaves by embarking on a creative research project that involves interrogating my own experience for subject matter. I resolved to act on a belief that I share with nonfiction prose writer Annie Dillard: “What a marvel it [is] that so many times a day the world, like a church bell, remind[s] me to recall and contemplate the durable fact that I [am] here ...” (An American Childhood 17). To date, three of my essays-”Levi,” “Summertime and the Livin’ is Easily Misunderstood,” and “With a Birthday Bee in my Bonnet”-- have been written, recorded, and broadcasted; a fourth, “Oak à la Home” is pending
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