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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
The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe’s unconstitutional approach of applying rules of locus standi.
No full textThis paper examines the rationality and legality of the rule of locus
standi introduced by the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe to the
effect that no litigant is allowed to act in more than one capacity of
locus standi in one matter. This rule was initially suggested in Mudzuru
v Minister of Justice and was crystallised in Samuel Sipepa Nkomo v
Minister of Local Government. When evaluated against the provisions
of section 46 and section 85 of the Constitution, this rule is
inconsistent with the liberal approach to determining locus standi
and is therefore ultra vires the Constitution. At a conceptual level,
this rule is untenable and irrational as it is contradictory to the
theoretical foundations upon which the constitutional idea of judicial
review is based. It is also inconsistent with the trajectory set by the
same Court in its very first case of Jealous Mawarire v Robert Mugabe
Rights inference: Understanding the meaning of Section 46 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe beyond Gubbay CJ’s dictum.
No full textThe Constitution of Zimbabwe guarantees a wide range of
fundamental rights. These are set out in Chapter four-the Declaration
of Rights. However, the Constitution is silent on a number of
fundamental rights which include the right to access adequate
housing, the right to development and the right to the protection of
family. Thus, the Constitution does not expressly provide for these
rights, yet in the preamble it, captures and expresses a vision of a
prosperous and just society that is based on human dignity. There is
a real risk that this vision will remain a pipe dream if individuals do
not enjoy these rights. In this paper, I examine how and the extent to
which the interpretive guidelines set out in section 46 of the
Constitution, can be applied as a tool to infer or read in rights that
are not expressly provided for in the Constitution’s Declaration of
Rights. Inevitably I also examine the theoretical underpinnings of
the rules provided for in section 46 and argue that, the courts need
to engage with those theories in a critical and nuanced fashion in
order to develop a meaningful jurisprudence on how fundamental
rights should be interpreted in Zimbabwe
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
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No full textDispelling 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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