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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
“I wyl poure out the wordes of sorrowe”: politics in the Protestant and Catholic settings of Psalms 51 and 79 during the English Reformation
Get PDFThe music of the Tudor era in England reflected the period’s political instability. This instability had its roots in, among other things, the religious movement known as the Reformation. Protestant and Catholic factions relied upon biblical texts, sermons, tracts and other circulating works to spread their propaganda, with musical settings of the Psalms also finding a part in this dissemination. Beginning in the reign of Edward VI, the metrical psalters of the Anglican Church functioned as personal devotional instruments aimed at laity possessing limited musical and academic training. They provided, in their simple tunes and metricized texts, an easy means of memorizing the Psalms. Latin motets, on the other hand, especially those circulating in copied manuscript collections in the latter half of the sixteenth century, reflected the political situation of English Catholics who were legally unable to worship openly by incorporating such texts as Psalm 50 [51] (Miserere mei, Deus) and Psalm 78 [79] (Deus, venerunt gentes) into laments of persecution. These motet collections may have served dual roles as repositories for the music of esteemed English composers and methods of reeducating and supporting underground communities of Catholics.
This study examines Psalm 50 [51] and 78 [79] settings by Protestant and Catholic composers in Tudor England and the circumstances surrounding the implementation of political indoctrination associated with these settings. Included in the discussion are excerpts from the metrical psalters, including those of Miles Coverdale (1488-1569) and Sternhold and Hopkins (1549-end of century). Psalm motets by William Byrd (1540-1623) and his setting of Infelix ego, the prison meditation on Psalm 50 [51] by 15th-century Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola are also explored. Along with the Byrd motet, English settings of the same text by William Hunnis (d. 1597) and William Mundy (1529-1591) are shown as examples of Savonarola’s influence on both Catholic and Protestant English Reformation thought.
In considering the metrical psalters and Latin motets of the Tudor period as religious educational propaganda, this project offers a fresh look at sacred music in the time of the Tudors and its role in the socio-political environment of 16th-century England, with implications for historians as well as choral conductors. Through the information given here, the study aims to provide conductors with impetus for new ideas regarding performance of these motets and anthems while also delivering a unique historical perspective on the political role of sacred music in Tudor England.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-08-10 without embargo termsThe student, Janet McCumber, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-14 at 15:50.The student, Janet McCumber, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-04-14 at 16:05.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-04-18 at 08:54.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10767 on 2017-08-10 at 13:40:38Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:15:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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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
Beautiful torment: Interpreting dissonance and text-painting in selected sacred choral works of William Byrd and Carlo Gesualdo
Get PDFThe end of the sixteenth century was filled with social, religious, and political turmoil; and yet, the musical atmosphere in England and Italy was conducive to new ideas in text-setting and chromatic inflection that had not been seen in previous eras. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach in looking at two late sixteenth-century composers, William Byrd and Carlo Gesualdo, and describes their personal and political sufferings and how these torments may have affected their compositional styles.
Brief explorations of England and Catholicism in the time of the Protestant Reformation, the Mannerist movement in the arts, the movement toward chromaticism in Italy and the meditative exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola are included as preparation for the discussion of the Latin motets chosen for this thesis: Ave verum corpus and Surge, illuminare Jerusalem by Byrd and Aestimatus sum and Ave dulcissima Afaria by Gesualdo.
The themes of these motets represent Byrd\u27s political statements against the Anglican Church and his encouragement to a recusant community which envisioned itself as being similar to the Jews in their Babylonian captivity; and Gesualdo\u27s personal pleas for forgiveness and possible desire for relief from guilt in the deaths of his wife and her lover.
The texts of the motets are examined in detail as to their liturgical or nonliturgical functions, their history, and their inclusion in the collections of the composers (the Gradualia ofByrd and the Sacrae Cantiones andResponsoria of Gesualdo). The thesis proposes that both composers were influenced by St. Ignatius and the teachings of the Jesuit order, in particular the Spiritual Exercises and their intense devotion to modes of prayer and reflection upon individual words and phrases of text. The motets are analyzed for their text-painting and treatment of dissonance.
Finally, issues of twenty-first century performance of the motets are discussed, with suggestions for articulations, text stress, and rhythmic groupings
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
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